Officers intercepted a truck carrying 55 million methamphetamine tablets and more than 1.5 tonnes of crystal meth, the UN’s crime agency said. he discovery came after police stopped a truck carrying beer crates in Bokeo, which borders Thailand and Myanmar. The area – known as the Golden Triangle – has a long history of being a major drug-producing hotspot.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Denmark further supports Vietnam’s green energy development
It is the third phase of a long-term energy cooperation programme between the two Governments launched in 2013. The programme will be jointly carried out by the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Danish Energy Agency with a non-refundable aid of 60.3 million DDK (10 million USD) in the form of Denmark’s technical assistance.
Building a sustainable future
Businesses and consumers alike are adopting solar power to achieve carbon neutrality
US Ambassador says Kingdom in ‘good position to lead’ on sustainability
Brunei symbolically handed the gavel to Cambodia on Thursday, to take over the stewardship of the ten-nation bloc.
Ambassador W Patrick Murphy says Prime Minister Hun Sen’s leadership of ASEAN in 2022 gives Cambodia the opportunity to set an exacting agenda.
Online workshop on physical inspection of timber shipments in the Lower Mekong Region
It sought to enhance capacity among national authorities to conduct inspections of valuable timber shipments, to correctly identify species, detect illegal consignments, conduct related investigations, and appropriately dispose of confiscated illegal consignments.
Leveraging deepening regional integration
Besides the regin’s expanding physical connectivity, the 7th GMS Summit Meeting2 included a commitment by the participants to push forward other mechanisms to help facilitate transport and trade flows across borders.
US to provide $860,000 assistance to 3 renewable energy projects
The projects to benefit are TSV and Asia Renewables’ onshore wind farms (350MW) in Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands, INGINE Pacific’s pilot off-grid wave technology project in the central Quang Ngai Province, and the Bamboo Capital Group’s (BCG) offshore wind farms in Ca Mau (300MW) and Tra Vinh (200MW) provinces in the Mekong Delta.
Vietnam makes progress on SDG 2030 ambitions
Vietnam is expected to achieve at least five of the 17 goals (SDGs) by 2030 on poverty, hunger, quality education, climate action, and global partnerships, according to the 2020 National Report on the 5-year implementation of the country’s targets released by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Climate can’t be ignored
Thailand ranks 20th on the global emission scale and then ranks ninth when it comes to vulnerability from climate change. The alternate waves of floods and droughts have damaged our agriculture and industry sectors while rising seawater will make low-lying areas like Bangkok harder places to live in and work in. Yet, our climate change plan does not reflect a sense of urgency.
Chinese developer provokes ire in Laos with 100-meter Buddha statue
Laotians have taken umbrage at those plans because the Buddha statue will be built in the Mahayana style in the sprawling $5 billion That Luang Marsh special economic zone, funded by the Chinese property developer.