PM Hun Manet, with the support of his father, proposed the Funan Techo Canal as a Cambodian Mega Project and a legacy of The Hun’s Family. Geopolitically, this waterway would allow them to transport goods in two ways from Phnom Penh to the sea, without having to follow the Tien or Hau Rivers, and would free them from dependence on Vietnam.
The highly-anticipated and debated Funan Techo Canal project was launched on August 5th 2024 with the ambitious plan to connect Cambodian waterways over the length of 180 kilometres passing through Kandal, Takeo, Kampot, and Kep provinces at a cost ...
Cambodia is pushing ahead with plans to link the nation’s capital, Phnom Penh, to its coast with a canal running 180 kilometers, or 110 miles. According to Cambodian leaders, 51% or more of the canal’s cost will be covered by Cambodian companies and ...
There are good reasons why Cambodia should abandon its plan to build a canal between the nation’s capital, Phnom Penh, and Kampot, a coastal town some 180 km to the southeast. None of them seem likely to change the minds of Hun Sen, Cambodia’s prime ...
Cambodia government official claimed that the Funan Techo Canal (FTC) is less costly route for shipping containers comparing to the existing Vietnam Mekong River route. Deputy PM Sun Chanthol said “the canal will reduce transportation costs by $181 ...
Cambodia has every right to construct the Funan Techo Canal, a project that gives Cambodia water access the Gulf of Thailand for commercial and other uses. But the way Cambodia’s government has communicated its intents to build the canal is creating ...
Despite overwhelming public support for the Funan Techo Canal project, concerns remain among some Vietnamese commentators. With this in mind, The Post submitted a series of questions to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) – the intergovernmental ...
The Vietnam Mekong River Commission announced that it will hold a consultation meeting on April 23, 2024 in Can Tho city on the Funan Techo Canal Project. Viet Ecology Foundation would like to introduce an article by Dr. Ngo The Vinh about this ...
The MekongForum and The Vietnamese Science and Technology Society wish to present you The 1999 Mekong Papers which contain "The 1999 Mekong River Declaration" and a number of supporting articles written by scientists, engineers, and economists ...
Few sites anywhere in Asia can match the charm and cultural importance of Luang Prabang, the old royal capital of Laos situated on the Mekong River. With a legacy dating back some 800 years, the town and its verdant riverside surroundings were ...
All development plans must take into consideration the – environmental costs – vis a vis the health of the people as well as the natural resources in the long term of the nation
Các dân tộc sống trên lục địa Châu Á ở hạ lưu các dòng sông từ Tây Tạng và Trung Quốc chảy xuống, trên 1,6 tỉ người này đã phải gánh chịu hết cả thiệt hại kinh tế nông nghiệp, ngư nghiệp và môi trường các hạ vực đã bị thoái hóa dần dần suốt nhiều ...
The dam near Luang Prabang – both a World Heritage site and an seismically active zone – is “an irresponsible gamble,” experts argue.
China inevitably has become a major focus of concern about extreme drought in the lower half of the river because of its construction of a massive cascade of 11 large to mega-sized dams on the Upper Mekong
Another Mekong dam project threatens to cost the former royal capital its UNESCO World Heritage status. The Lao government’s high-risk plan to install a massive dam on the Mekong River, perilously close to the renowned UNESCO World Heritage site of ...
The shrinking Tonle Sap, the river’s “beating heart,” is the latest wake-up call of the damage wrought by dams.
TS Richard Conin viết về tia hy vọng vẫn còn cho Mekong dựa vào Mekong Dam Monitor cung cấp chứng cứ thủy học vận hành các hồ chứa đã không cho Biển Hồ nhip lũ được dâng đầy, nhưng hy vọng này mong manh
Nowadays, Vietnam’s irrigation policy must adapt to the changes that are taking place in agricultural activities. It can no longer pursue the old objective of increasing rice production through intensive farming but has to aim for the amelioration ...
A leading Thai geologist is warning that a huge new dam proposed in an earthquake-prone region of northern Laos poses a high risk of endangering the famed UNESCO-World Heritage city of Luang Prabang.
China compounded a drought that devastated fishing and farming communities on the Mekong River last year by restricting the flow of huge amounts of water downstream from 11 of its dams, a U.S. research firm said in a study released Monday.
From the Editor. With almost two decades of involvement with the issues pertaining to the Mekong River and the Mekong Delta, Ngô Thế Vinh MD authored two books about this river: “The Mekong Drained Dry, The East Sea in Turmoil” and “Mekong – the ...
Tình trạng hạn hán hạ lưu Mekong ngày càng nghiêm trọng. Việc chặn dòng Mekong với vô số con đập đã được cảnh báo liên tục nhưng sự bức tử Mekong không ngừng diễn ra. Trong năm nay, đập Luang Prabang tại Lào sẽ được khởi công, với sự tham gia của… ...
10.29.2019: The first day in operation of the Xayaburi Dam. On that date, the Lao government kick started the turbines of the Xayaburi Dam (1260 MW), its first hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River’s mainstream. At the time, when the Mekong ...
Inertia and the inherent tone-deafness of an authoritarian regime have set Vietnam on a course toward economic and political disaster. It is not too late, however, for the ruling party’s top leaders, the Politburo, to disavow support for ...
On October 29, 2019 Laos kickstarted the operation of the Xayaburi Dam to be followed soon afterward by that of the Don Sahong Dam. Those two hydroelectric dams that straddle the Mekong’s main current also represent a bone of contention for the ...
Dams have dealt a blow to the flora and fauna of the Mekong—and the people who depend on it for a living. These lyrics are learned by heart by the people of the Mekong’s Nine Dragons Delta in my home country of Vietnam, from the song, “Spring has ...
The Lancang-Mekong River is being decimated by hundreds of tributary and mainstream hydroelectric projects from the Tibetan Plateau in China to Lower Sesan in Cambodia. On the Mekong, the Laos Government has constructed the majority of these ...
It has been 62 years since the United Nations gave birth to the Mekong River Committee [1957] and 24 years since the establishment of the Mekong River Commission [1995]. Up to the current year 2019, Beijing has completed the construction of 11 ...
Theo tường trình ngày 14 tháng 4, 2017 của CNN Money, dự án điện mặt trời Kapaia của hãng Tesla đã hòan tất và họat động trên đảo Kauai, Hawaii. Dự án này sẽ giúp công ty điện của đảo không phải bỏ vốn mà có điện cung cấp cho giới tiêu thụ và còn để ...
International Rivers believes that recent comments attributed in the media to the CEO of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) at the MRC Stakeholder Forum on the Pak Beng Dam and Council Study raise serious concerns about the role and positioning of ...
The MRC should stop finding excuses, and take decisive action to stop Laos and Cambodia from going ahead with any further Hydropower Dam development in the Mekong River mainstream and major tributaries. Every member of the MRC and of the National ...
On a visit to the Asian Institute of Technology AIT on 10-15-2012 to inspect the mockup of the Xayaburi Hydropower Dam, Mr. Viraphonh Viravong, Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines of Laos, the “brain” behind all development projects for hydropower ...
Nothing that influences the future of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta induces more angst than the hydroelectric dam projects on the mainstream of the Mekong, upriver from the Delta. A handful of Vietnamese experts have been sounding the alarm for years. That ...
It’s a sad fact that several decades of talk about climate change have hardly anywhere yet led to serious efforts to adapt to phenomena that are virtually unavoidable. Neuroscientists say that’s because we’re humans. We aren’t wired to respond to ...
"Rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta is further threatened by the building of the next dam on the main stream, the Don Sahong Dam in Southern Laos. This dam will block the Mekong’s main stream just before the famous Khone Falls, reducing ...
With the passing of time, the cumulative and irreversible chain-reaction impacts coming from the occluding rivers as well as the 26 mainstream dams (14 dams in the Mekong Cascades in Yunnan and 12 in the Lower Mekong) on the more than 4,800 ...
On April 5, 1995, four lower Mekong countries Laos PDR, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam signed the Agreement on the Cooperation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong and The Mekong River Commission (MRC) was born. This is an international ...
“Rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta is further threatened by the building of the next dam on the main stream, the Don Sahong Dam in Southern Laos. This dam will block the Mekong’s main stream just before the famous Khone Falls, reducing ...
As part of our Asia Pacific Security Engagement Initiative, we are launching LMI 2020. As the name implies, it is a multiyear vision for how the United States can help each of our partners together as well as individually to build a more prosperous ...
“The United States is back in South East Asia. President Obama and I believe that this region is vital to global process, peace and prosperity and we are fully engaged with our ASEAN partners on the wide range of challenges confronting us.” US ...
<em>The contracting parties agree to “make every effort to avoid, minimize and mitigate harmful effects that might occur to the environment, especially the water quantity and quality, the aquatic eco-system conditions, and the ecological ...
If the Xayaburi Dam’s construction cannot be postponed for at least a decade, it would be the first domino to fall and open the door for the building of a host of dams downstream. Their immediate, devastating and long lasting impacts on the entire ...
Myanmar has been known as “Shwe Pyidaw” – the “El Dorado” of Asia, a land richly endowed with natural resources such as valuable wood, precious stones, oil, and the Irrawaddy Basin, Asia’s most fertile land. This Basin, considered the “rice bowl” ...