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Mekong's turbulent fight for survival
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 2 days ago
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His job is to try and find a balance between developing one of the region’s greatest natural resources and conserving a unique asset that supports an estimated 40m people. “In many regions these debates are just about environment and ecology: here it...
Tags: Mekong River Commission, Mekong Delta, Mr Bird, climate change, Vietnam, Laos, China, Ho Chi Minh City, Single-party states, Isan, Mekong, Tonlￃﾩ Sap, Mekong River, Rivers of Thailand, Communist states, Environment
Jimmy Carter Volunteers in Asia
Chiang Mai :: Thailand | 7 days ago
Credibility During the week, the Carters will join dignitaries, celebrities, volunteers and Habitat homeowners as they build in Chiang Mai and visit construction sites in the other countries. Celebrity volunteers expected to build in Chiang Mai and elsewhere include...
Tags: Jimmy Carter Volunteers, jimmy carters, president jimmy, Iran, hostage crisis, Mekong River, Thailand, Chiang Mai, Jonathan Reckford, Jimmy Carter, Mekong, Affordable housing, Development charities, Alpha Sigma Tau, Habitat for Humanity International, Environment, Americus Georgia, Carter, Carpentry, Millard Fuller, Sumter County Georgia, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Adulyadej, Human Interest, Rivers of Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Year of birth missing
Vietnam to explore for oil in Cambodia
Vientiane :: Laos | 10 days ago
Credibility Thursday to drill for oil in block XV, northeast of Tonle Sap Lake, on Cambodia's mainland. Chairman Sok An, the Vietnamese partner will hold a 100 per cent interest. Laos and Myanmar. The duration of the contract is 30 years for oil and 35 years for...
Tags: Cambodian, PVEP, Laos, Vientiane, Tonlￃﾩ Sap, Mekong, Cambodia, Tonle Sap, Mekong River, Phnom Penh, Business Finance
Politics › Japan to give Y500 bil aid to Mekong region
Tōkyō :: Japan | 17 days ago
Credibility Japan pledged 500 billion yen in new aid Friday to five countries along the Mekong River to fund development projects over the next three years. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced the aid at a meeting in Tokyo of leaders from the five Mekong countries—Thailand,...
Tags: Japan, Mekong River, Barack Obama, Tokyo, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Yukio Hatoyama
Enviornmentalists Dream Come True, 162 New Species Found last year in Vietnam
Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, Vietnam was proven to be a dream come true for the Scientists who went for an expedition there.WWF International is reporting that the expedition of scientists who went there were able to find 100 plants, 28...
Tags: Cat Ba leopard gecko, Goniurosaurus catbaensis, Limnonectes megastomias, Khorat big mouthed frog, baldheaded song bird, barefaced Bulbul Pycnonotus hualon, Crocias langbianis, Vietnam, Mekong River
Bangkok Post, Thailand: SAVE THE MEKONG
Vientiane :: Laos | 5 months ago
Credibility With its picturesque waterfalls, tranquil waterways and a colony of endangered Irrawaddy dolphins, the pristine beauty of the Mekong River flowing through Siphandone (Four Thousand Islands) in southern Laos is a mecca for ecotourism and an important site...
Tags: Mekong River, irrawaddy dolphins
Mekong river dolphin near extinct—WWF
Bangkok :: Thailand | 5 months ago
Credibility Pollution in southeast Asia's Mekong River has pushed freshwater dolphins in Cambodia and Laos to the brink of extinction, an international conservation group said Thursday. The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) said only 64 to 76 Irrawaddy dolphins remain...
Tags: Mekong River, irrawaddy dolphins, Nature Cambodia, wide fund, toxic levels, world wide, Laos
Plate-sized spider found in Mekong!
Vientiane :: Laos | 11 months ago
Credibility Plate-sized spider found in Mekong Canberra, Dec 15: Scientists have discovered a plate-sized spider, along with a host of new species in The Greater Mekong, a remote wildlife hotspot in Asia. The Greater Mekong comprises 600,000 square kilometers of...
Tags: mekong, spider, scientist, allnews, Greater Mekong, Thailand, sized spider, Vietnam, Mekong Canberra, Mekong River
THAILAND: Worst Mekong river flooding in 100 years
Nong Khai :: Thailand | about 1 year ago
Credibility It is 4pm and Pranee Soongkhaeng is hurriedly piling up sandbags in a bid to prevent flooding in front of her shop on Meechai Street in Nhon Khai Province, northeast Thailand, close to the Mekong river bank. We don't know when the water is going to recede...
Tags: Mekong river bank, Mekong River
Official: Lao flooding not danger for Cambodia
Vientiane :: Laos | about 1 year ago
Credibility The current flooding in Laos wouldn't cause any serious danger for Cambodia, although the two neighboring countries share water from the Mekong River, English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily Saturday quoted an official as saying. "The wate...
Tags: mekong, Laos, Mekong River, Cambodia
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