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Posted inVideo / Cambodia

Cambodian fishermen see livelihoods threatened by climate change and dam activity

By Nantiya January 3, 2021January 5, 2021

Sok Piseth’s family has lived off the fish in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake for generations. During the rainy season, the lake expands up to five times in size, creating a unique ecosystem that regularly brings new life to the lake and its surrounding wetlands.

Posted inAnalysis / Laos

Laotian Plan To Build Another Big Mekong Dam Concerns Thais

By Nantiya January 2, 2021January 5, 2021

The projects are controversial because of their environmental impact, displacement of villagers without adequate compensation, and questionable financial and power demand arrangements.

Posted inStory / Laos

Lao Dams Lower Water Levels on a Scenic River, Harming Tour Boat Operators and Other Local Businesses

By Nantiya January 2, 2021January 6, 2021

Water levels lowered by seven dams along a stretch of the Nam Ou River in Laos are blocking boat travel in a scenic area popular with tourists, impacting tour and passenger boat operators and other local businesses, Lao sources say.

Posted inStory / Cambodia

Land grabs in protected forests rampant in Cambodia

By Nantiya January 2, 2021January 5, 2021
Posted inStory / Vietnam

Hopes for most endangered turtle after discovery of female in Vietnam lake

By Nantiya January 2, 2021January 5, 2021

The last known male giant Swinhoe’s softshell turtle is no longer alone on the planet after the discovery of a female of his species in Vietnam.

Posted inStory / Vietnam

2021 will be year of major transport projects

By Nantiya January 2, 2021January 5, 2021

Construction of the My Thuan – Can Tho Expressway, which will improve HCMC’s connectivity with the Mekong Delta, will begin on Monday.

Posted inAnalysis / Vietnam

Years in the making, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta policy takes the long view

By Nantiya January 1, 2021January 6, 2021

An early indicator of the Vietnamese regime’s ability to adapt its policies to more challenging conditions will be how it chooses to defend the delta seacoast.

Posted inEye Original / Eye Original

Transboundary haze: The hidden price of cheap maize 

By Pratch Rujivanarom December 30, 2020January 5, 2021

Industrial maize farming in Myanmar’s Shan State is devastating families and landscapes as well as fuelling ever-increasing levels of transboundary haze, generating urgent calls for serious changes to animal feed supply chains.

Posted inEye Original / Myanmar

Buried in debt: Shan contract farmers’ future rocked by insecurity

By Pratch Rujivanarom December 30, 2020January 5, 2021

Apart from being a source of transboundary haze, poorly regulated contract farming is trapping the small farmers of Myanmar’s Shan State in a cycle of overwhelming debt, land dispossession and environmental degradation. 

Posted inEye Original / Myanmar

Beyond industrial maize farming’s dead-end in Myanmar

By Pratch Rujivanarom December 30, 2020January 15, 2021

Diversified farming systems and agrobiodiversity are essential in defending food security and coping with climate crisis. But both are being undermined in Myanmar’s Shan State, where the industrial maize industry is making local farmers more vulnerable to climate change. 

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