May 2, 2011
Poaching, habitat encroachment could push pachyderms to extinction in Vietnam very soon, experts warn Beckham, the elephant, was found dead in Da Lat last Sunday. Vietnam’s Asian elephant population may be wiped out in the next decade if rampant poaching and habitat loss are not addressed, conservationists say. The most recent killing of an [...]
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December 7, 2010
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a luncheon in Hanoi in July. Her back-to-back visits to Vietnam this year articulated the rising US commitment to bilateral relations. Hillary Clinton’s back-to-back visits to Hanoi articulated the rising US commitment to US-Vietnam relations. Clinton’s recent announcement “The US is back in Southeast Asia,” struck a [...]
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February 1, 2010
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70% in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a WWF report. LookAtVietnam – Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the [...]
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January 31, 2010
The Indochinese tiger is only found in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam Indochinaâs big-cat population at âcrisis point,â could vanish by next Year of Tiger, says WWF. Dead tigers turned up around Hanoi last year as if they were nothing more than cheap smuggled goods from China.Hanoi environmental police uncovered a [...]
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January 27, 2010
Tigers in the Greater Mekong region are facing extinction, their numbers down more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade due to poachers and habitat destruction, conservationists say. A new report by wildlife group WWF says tiger populations in the region that includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam have fallen to 350 [...]
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January 17, 2010
Disease experts in Southeast Asia will map out key poultry smuggling routes, especially along Cambodia’s long border with Thailand and Vietnam, in a move to prevent the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the region. Researchers from China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam met in the Chinese city of Kunming to discuss ways [...]
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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 12, 2009
Commercial trucks from Thailand and Vietnam can now deliver and pick up goods directly without unloading and reloading in Laos. Following the introduction of a regional customs transit system and the exchange of national traffic laws between the two countries and Laos Thursday, overland shipments between Thailand and Vietnam along the East West Economic Corridor [...]
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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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