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Field Notes — Tonle Sap Lake

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Field Notes — Tonle Sap Lake

Stimson Southeast Asia program director Brian Eyler recently visited Plov Tuok, a community of 800 floating homes atop of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake — the largest lake in Southeast Asia and the world’s largest inland fishery. The visit was facilitated by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and Brian witnessed first-hand the progress of fish conversation zones that were established by local villagers and IUCN in 2014.

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Power stacked against Southeast Asia’s poor as China dams Mekong

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Communities along the mighty Mekong blame China for their shrinking catches. (Photo: AFP/TANG CHHIN SOTHY)

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KANDAL, Cambodia: Cambodian fisherman Sles Hiet lives at the mercy of the Mekong: A massive river that feeds tens of millions but is under threat from the Chinese dams cementing Beijing’s physical – and diplomatic – control over its Southeast Asian neighbours.

The 32-year-old, whose ethnic Cham Muslim community live on rickety house boats that bob along a river bend in Kandal province, says the size of his daily catch has been shrinking by the year. Tiếp tục đọc “Power stacked against Southeast Asia’s poor as China dams Mekong” →

Is Mekong River set to become the new South China Sea for regional disputes?

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The Beijing-led Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism was set up to help ease tensions over development projects, but environmental groups are yet to be convinced

 South China Morning Post PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 02 January, 2018, 9:00pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 03 January, 2018, 12:09am

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Foreign ministers from the six countries through which the Mekong flows met in southwestern China last month to approve a draft of a five-year development plan for the river. But as state leaders prepare to finalise the proposal at a meeting in Cambodia later this month, environmental groups have expressed concern over what it could mean for Southeast Asia’s longest waterway.

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Sông Mêkông: Một Biển Đông mới trong tranh chấp Trung Quốc-ASEAN ?

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media Ảnh minh họa : Một con kênh tại huyện Long Phú, tỉnh Sóc Trăng, châu thổ sông Mêkông cạn khô nước. Ảnh chụp ngày 08/03/2016. STR / AFP

Trong hai ngày 10-11/01/2018, hội nghị thượng đỉnh cơ chế Hợp Tác Lan Thương – Mêkông lần thứ 2 sẽ mở ra tại Phnom Penh, thủ đô Cam Bốt. Nhân dịp này, nhật báo Hồng Kông South China Morning Post, trong số ra ngày 03/01, đã phân tích thêm về cơ chế hợp tác do Trung Quốc chủ xướng, trên danh nghĩa là để góp phần giảm bớt căng thẳng đến từ các đề án trên sông Mêkông, nhưng đã bị các nhà bảo vệ môi sinh hết sức hoài nghi. Bài viết không ngần ngại đặt thành tựa câu hỏi : «Phải chăng sông Mêkông sắp trở thành một Biển Đông mới trong tranh chấp khu vực? Is Mekong River set to become the new South China Sea for regional disputes?».

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Sixty-five new species discovered in Vietnamese forests

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Last update 17:51 | 20/12/2017

Scientists have discovered 115 new stranger species in the Greater Mekong region, one of Asia’s biodiversity hotspots, in which 65 species have been found in Vietnam, while 33 others have been discovered in Thailand, Myanmar five, Laos 15 and Cambodia has seven species.

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Regional countries agree on safe labour migration

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Last update 16:31 | 03/08/2017

VietNamNet Bridge – Ministers of labour from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam (CLMTV) – agreed to improve their migration management system and share responsibilities in contributing to safe labour migration.

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A welder work at a mechanical workshop. Ministers of labour from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam agreed to boost safe migration workers among countries in a conference in Da Nang. Photos: Cong Thanh/VNS

The reaffirmation was included in the CLMTV joint declaration on safe labour migration at the 2nd Ministerial Conference on Labour Co-operation in CLMTV in Da Nang yesterday.

The ministers also committed to boosting information exchanges, and encouraging legal cross-border workers and employment through bilateral agreements among the five countries. Tiếp tục đọc “Regional countries agree on safe labour migration” →

Letters from the Mekong: Mekong Power Shift – Emerging Trends in the GMS Power Sector

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Brian Eyler, Courtney Weatherby | Jul 25, 2017
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RELATED PROGRAM: Southeast Asia, Mekong Policy Project
RELATED REGIONS: Mekong Basin
RELATED TOPICS: Energy
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This issue brief, the fourth in Stimson’s “Letters from the Mekong” series, explores the shifting terrain for power sector development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), analyzing hydropower within the context of a broader range of emerging factors and opportunities that could lead to a transformation in the way that Mekong countries approach energy security, regional electricity trade, and sustainable development. This transition, if effectively implemented, could lead to substantive economic gains and significantly reduce ecological, socioeconomic, and political risks in the Mekong Basin. Tiếp tục đọc “Letters from the Mekong: Mekong Power Shift – Emerging Trends in the GMS Power Sector” →