First ever class-action lawsuit filed in Thai courts by complainants from another country, impacted communities seek remedies and justice.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Code of conduct for the Mekong
The code should include three main components: confidence building measures, preventive diplomacy and dispute settlement mechanisms.
Mekong River conference hears of determination to work with LMC
Sustainability key as two bodies discuss future management of vital waterway.
Mekong Eye’s GMS Sixth Summit News Roundup
The $US66 billion project wish list and more from the ministerial and side meetings that took place in Hanio
Financial sector helps boost transition for low-carbon economy: experts
Vietnam forum explores how the financial sector plays a pivotal role in the transition to a low-carbon economy by shifting capital away from unsustainable activities.
Six decades of water cooperation puts Mekong basin on track to achieve SDGs
Steady as she goes, says MRC’s Chief Executive, to achieve sustainable development along the Mekong.
Ensuring the Greater Mekong’s success
US$7 billion over the 5 years for GMS projects in transport, tourism, energy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, agribusiness, and urban development.
Subregion summit kicks off in Hanoi
Their 5-year Hanoi Action Plan, with Regional Investment Framework of 226 subregion development projects worth 2 trillion baht are on the table.
Environmental Monks Need International Support
In Thailand and Cambodia rural monks often “ordain” trees, but illegal loggers and corrupt government officials don’t respect such religious traditions.
A people in limbo, many living entirely on water
Floating villages across the surface of the Mekong River’s waterways play host to Vietnamese whose status in Cambodia is perpetually adrift