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Strengthening India’s strategic ties with Mekong subregion

By Nantiya January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

Though the subregional mechanism, the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC), exists — through which India engages with the five nations in the Mekong subregion — it focuses on socio-economic and cultural cooperation such as connectivity, trade, tourism, etc.

Posted inStory / Vietnam

Mekong delta salt-making craft named national heritage

By Nantiya January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

The salt fields stretch for tens of kilometres along the coast, from Vinh Chau beach to Ganh Hao estuary. In the early years of the 20th century, salt-making was one of three major economic sectors, after rice and aquaculture,

Posted inStory / Thailand

Cold spell kills tonnes of fish

By Nantiya January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

Farmers raising fish in the Songkhram stream, a Mekong river tributary, are mostly from Hat Kuan village in tambon Chaiburi of Tha Uthen district.

Posted inStory / Vietnam

LONGi supplies 70 MW modules to the largest floating PV plant cluster in Vietnam

By Nantiya January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

The 35-MWp Ho Tam Bo Floating Solar Power Plant and the 35-MWp Ho Gia Hoet 1 floating PV plant together form the largest floating PV cluster in Southeast Asia

Posted inStory / Vietnam

Limestone mining in northern Vietnam pushes endangered langurs to extinction

By Nantiya January 5, 2021January 11, 2021

Last year, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked provincial authorities to protect this primate and review the environmental impact of stone mining on the langurs’ natural habitat.

Posted inData / Data

2020: a dismal year for coal power

By Nantiya January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

Countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia are still pursuing the construction of significant quantities of coal power, while Cambodia has announced new coal power projects, backed by Chinese finance and construction.

Posted inStory / Myanmar

Myanmar migratory bird census to be taken by locals

By Nantiya January 4, 2021January 5, 2021

Myanmar has two of the nine flyways which the migratory birds take around the world. They are the Central Asian Flyway, and the East Asian Australasian Flyway.

Posted inAnalysis / Analysis

Thailand poised to be regional leader in electric vehicle revolution

By Nantiya January 3, 2021January 11, 2021

Entrepreneurs banking on electric vehicles as one of the solutions to tackle climate change are positioning themselves early, as Thailand looks to ramp up production.

Posted inData / Data

Cryptocurrencies Impacting The Environment

By Nantiya January 3, 2021January 5, 2021

Bitcoin mining has already picked up in Southeast Asia, with Cambodia increasingly becoming a hub for cryptocurrency trading and mining perhaps due to its cheaper rent and electricity rates and loose regulations.

Posted inStory / Cambodia

Watchdogs Call for Transparency as Cambodia Strikes Oil

By Nantiya January 3, 2021January 5, 2021

called on the government to release detailed information about revenue it is earning from the petroleum industry, days after the country struck oil following a decades-long quest.

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