Mekong Region

BANGKOK -- Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. What images might these words conjure up in the minds of international consumers of news? Perhaps war, maybe the Khmer Rouge. Or they might say, ‘Oh, it’s that those countries that had that war some time ago. . . they’re near one another, and they’re all the same’. 

SYDNEY, Oct 3 (IPS Asia-Pacific) – Over the last decade or so, China’s deft use of soft power has seen South-east Asian neighbours’ view of it change from a looming threat to a largely friendly, if still imposing, giant to the north.

BANGKOK, Nov 14 (IPS Asia-Pacific) - The campaign to save South-east Asia's largest waterway from being blocked by a series of massive dams picked up pace this week, with activists accusing a regional river authority of abandoning its mission to protect the Mekong River.

BANGKOK, Nov 6 (Newsmekong/IPS Asia-Pacific) - It may look like everything is going against them but with a little bit of luck, lots of hard work and creativity, small poultry farmers who have been affected by avian flu outbreaks have a good chance of economic survival, say experts here.

BANGKOK, Sep 20 - Recently, Philipp Borgs, a student of mine at the South-east Asia Studies Masters’ Programme of Chulalongkorn University, submitted a term paper on drug smuggling in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).

BANGKOK, Sep 3 (IPS Asia-Pacific) - The search for answers to the spread of the bird flu virus is calling into question a long-held practice in science where recognition is given to positive test results, say experts meeting in the Thai capital.

 

The vast, limitless ricefields between Vietnam’s An Giang province and Cambodia’s Takeo province were full of yellow paddy just three months ago in June. But by September 2006, water from the Mekong River had flooded almost the entire area, except for a narrow three-kilometre road that links the two provinces.

BANGKOK, Jul 17 (IPS) - A sharp difference of opinion between the
Asian Development Bank (AsDB) and the United Nations Environment
programme (UNEP) has surfaced over a flagship venture of the Manila-

MANILA - Senior officials of several Mekong countries agreed today to build a bridge across the Mekong River that will connect the south-western Yunnnan province of China directly to Bangkok, Thailand by road.

BANGKOK, May 24 (IPS) - A Vietnamese academic has developed a small
following over the past two years for his views about the waters that
inundate the Mekong delta. The seminars he attends ends with