China wants to further enhance the sense that is already growing–it is playing a dominating role in the Mekong below its own borders.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Thailand’s new forest policy hailed as a breakthrough
Maps guide way to end encroachment, leaving woodland dwellers in peace.
Govt urged to establish EPA, introduce clean-air legislation
Needs specific law comparable to the Clean Air Act in Britain and the US, as well as a central, independent agency directly focusing on keeping the environment clean, like the EPA in the US.
No hooks, lines or sinkers: Cambodians go traditional in fishing ceremony
But fish stocks have declined in recent years due to hydropower dams built upstream in Cambodia and neighbouring countries, and the increase of illegal fishing methods,
Work on major roads to start in 2019, 2020
Work on three and eight sections of the North-South expressway will start this year and the next respectively.
Hold-ups in green energy investment
The growing demand for electricity and investment in Vietnam is catching the attention of renewable energy investors, but administrative hurdles seem to be giving investors trouble.
How Vietnam’s high speed railway will get on track
Infographic video outlines how the proposed north-south high speed railway project is expected to be completed by 2045.