December 22, 2011
A young girl in northern Vietnam. Ethnic minorities account for 13 percent of Vietnam's population, but 44.4 percent of the country's poor. © Alisa Tang/IRIN. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen’s ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the [...]
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September 20, 2011
Land-locked neighbor reveals plans to start construction of controversial dam months before regional meeting decides on the issue A handout photo released by the US-based environmental group International Rivers shows construction on the Xayaburi dam’s access road and work-camps has gone ahead despite commitments by the government of Laos in April to temporarily suspend [...]
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August 13, 2011
Tourists use a hanging bridge to cross a river in Bangkok, Thailand A road tour between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand has been attracting more tourists to the countries since a bridge was launched across the Mekong River in December 2006.  But the country that has exploited its potentials most, unsurprisingly, is Thailand, which has for long [...]
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July 16, 2011
Activists in the ongoing fight against Mekong dams worry that recent US opposition has come too little, too late. Cambodian fishermen cast their net into the Mekong River outside Phnom Penh in April. US senators have called for greater environmental safeguards for the Mekong River, but analysts remain doubtful that US influence is capable [...]
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July 12, 2011
The Vietnamese government will provide subsidies to wind power projects and make purchases at fixed prices as it strives to develop the renewable energy industry. Â A decision approved by the Prime Minister on June 29 requires the country’s power monopoly Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to buy all the power output of wind power [...]
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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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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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February 25, 2011
Farmer Virapan Tipsuna poses for a photograph in a dried-up irrigation canal in a rice field in Baan Nard village, Nongkhai province, Thailand in 2010. Thailand appears to be the region’s last hope in opposing an environmentally disastrous hydropower dam in northern Laos. Environmental activists are hoping that Thailand will put the breaks on Laos’ [...]
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February 25, 2011
Farmers harvest rice in Laos (Photo by FAO) The Vietnamese agricultural ministry has sought government approval to finance a VND5 billion (US$238,000) project to help Laos improve agricultural production, Vietnam News Agency reported Sunday. The project, which is scheduled to be carried out from now until June 2012, also aims to develop Lao rural areas and [...]
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December 27, 2009
New visa regulation for VN, Cambodia’s citizens; Vietnam, China set up joint committee for border management; Party delegation visits Laos; People’s Army Day celebrated in Russia New visa regulation for VN, Cambodia’s citizens As from Jan. 1, 2010, citizens of Vietnam and Cambodia holding ordinary passports valid for at least six months will need no [...]
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