The saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta region during this year’s dry season would occur earlier and be worse than previous years, warned the Department of Water Resources Management under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
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Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Cambodian families refuse land compensation from Chinese resort developer
Villagers say the compensation offered by the government is not fair because it does not compare to what they are losing.
Lao villagers reluctant to renew land lease with Chinese watermelon growers
After three years under this arrangement, the villagers say they can no longer tolerate the chemical damage NAMPheung causes to their farms and the environment. “The land is damaged. When they return the land to us for rice planting, yields are down and of lesser quality,” one villager said.
Bringing “the people” back in: Forest resources conservation with Dr. Apichart Pattaratuma
The real issue is big corporations invade the forest. This is very significant. Deforestation happens mostly from large scale corporation rather than small scale farmers.
Conviction of Prey Lang activist marks further repression of environmental defenders
“Time and time again, the Cambodian courts fail to deliver genuine justice in cases involving human rights defenders and environmental activists. Meanwhile, the Cambodian government continues to trample on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and allows logging companies to pursue their illegal activities with impunity.”
Once upon a river – Cambodia’s Mekong crisis
New hydropower dams on the Mekong River are leaving fishing and farming communities high and dry. The dams provide clean electricity, but they also cause massive damage to Cambodia’s plant and animal worlds.
What the AidData report reveals about BRI lending in Southeast Asia
This kind of fuzzy debt is neither new nor unique to Chinese development financing. Many other countries, including the United States, have been financing infrastructure in Southeast Asia for decades with deals that obfuscate the precise role of the state and its responsibilit
Southeast Asia energy policies on track to disaster
ASEAN leaders’ climate change pledges are undeliverable empty promises
Myanmar’s forests under pressure from illegal logging, smuggling
Criminal gangs, with a long history of involvement in illegal logging in Myanmar and across Asia, have become better organized and efficient in harvesting and exporting illegal timber.