“Please do not come to meet us. We do not welcome you. We local villagers do not want to discuss this with you. We don’t want the dam building. We only want peace,” said Sai Pee, Nam Ma village chairman.
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Minister calls for probe into illegal Prey Lang logging
Ministry of Environment received reports by the EU in Cambodia and USAID Cambodia, which said Think BioTech was logging valuable trees in Prey Lang Forest near land concession areas of the company.
Elephant herds increasing despite Thai tragedy
If neighboring states can enforce anti-poaching and wildlife protection laws in the future, we could relocate some of Thailand’s elephants to protected areas in, for example, Cambodia, Vietnam or Laos.
Book on China’s BRI, its implications for Cambodia’s development
Four months after its launch, the Chinese-backed Maritime Silk Road Research Center releases a 190-page book, “The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Implications for Cambodia’s Development.”
Thailand: Infrastructure resilience at the cornerstone of risk-informed development
Flood response needs overhaul
Second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge to open Oct 30
Land subsidence a big threat to Mekong Delta
Land subsidence is worsening in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, and experts told a recent seminar in Can Tho city that over-exploitation of groundwater is one of the factors causing it.
Vietnam activist ‘beaten’ in jail
A Vietnamese environmental activist was beaten in prison for refusing to confess his crimes, his wife said Friday in the one-party communist state notorious for jailing critics.
‘Our river was like a God’: How dams and Chinese might imperil the Mekong
With water flows shifting as new dams start their turbines, fishers, farmers and local ecosystems are suffering.