December 10, 2011
A file photo taken last July shows trucks and heavy machinery taking part in road work at the Xayaburi dam construction site in Xayaburi Province, Laos. Construction of the US$3.8-billion Xayaburi dam will be suspended pending further impact studies to be done by Japan, the four countries that share the lower reaches of the [...]
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May 3, 2011
One of the Xayaburi Dam’s most vocal critics says Laos’s ‘green energy’ claim is spurious A boat moves along the Mekong River at the site of the proposed Xayaburi Dam in Laos. If built, the dam would resettle over 2,100 people and affect the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, an expert says. The [...]
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April 24, 2011
Decision deferred on Xayaburi Dam, environmentalists say the project should be canceled People bathing in the Mekong River in Nong Khai Province in Thailand. Downstream riparian nations Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos have failed to reach an agreement on construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam unilaterally pursued by Laos. The Mekong River has gained [...]
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January 15, 2011
A woman fishes in the Mekong River in Laos in September 2010. Though Zeus warned Pandora never to open the box given to her, the temptation proved too strong and Pandora forever unleashed into the world misery, suffering and sorrow. Today, much like this mythical Greek tragedy, the decision-makers of the Mekong sub-region face a [...]
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August 1, 2009
Fish cages on the Tien River – a tributary of the Mekong River in Vietnamâs Tien Giang Province. A new study and cooperation project in the wake of 11 proposed hydropower schemes on the Mekong River has been launched amid concerns for the river and the 60 million people who live in the lower basin. [...]
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August 1, 2009
Fish cages on the Tien River – a tributary of the Mekong River in Vietnamâs Tien Giang Province. A new study and cooperation project in the wake of 11 proposed hydropower schemes on the Mekong River has been launched amid concerns for the river and the 60 million people who live in the lower basin. [...]
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June 22, 2009
A Laotian man collecting shells and stirring the sand in pools on the Mekong before the rainy season With all upstream countries â“ China, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia planning major dams on the Mekong River, Vietnam faces imminent threats to its ecology, food security and livelihoods of its people, an expert has warned. Just Laos, [...]
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June 2, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has emphasized the need to proceed carefully in considering dam projects on the mainstream Mekong River, as a wide ranging assessment of Mekong hydropower development begins this week. The Mekong River Commission Secretariat is located by the river in the Lao capital of Vientiane. (Photo: SGGP)“The Mekong River [...]
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