The World Heritage site in Laos is endangered by mega-projects and Mekong dams. Laos’ ancient royal capital, dating back a thousand years, offers a magical…
Tom FawthropMarch 4, 2020
Rivers contribute to transport, tourism, hydropower and resources including fish and freshwater. Yet excessive drought, dam-building and other development can ruin rivers. That is happening…
Tom FawthropNovember 28, 2019
It has been 62 years since the United Nations gave birth to the Mekong River Committee and 24 years since the establishment of the Mekong…
Tom FawthropSeptember 11, 2019
Review | The Mekong is mighty no more: demise of the great river system lamented in Brian Eyler’s new book. Author sounds a stark warning…
Tom FawthropFebruary 28, 2019
The cost-cutting and lack of oversight that led to the dam’s collapse plague other hydropower projects across the country. The Lao dam disaster in Attapeu…
Tom FawthropAugust 2, 2018
Will the delay to the Pak Beng dam in Laos on the Mekong trigger a wider review of hydropower plans on the river? A major…
Tom FawthropJune 14, 2018
How China’s grand strategy for the Mekong impacts the river, and the countries downstream. The Mekong has long cast a mystical spell over adventurers, wildlife…
Tom FawthropApril 18, 2018
Asia’s great river is under growing threat from hydropower. The great biodiversity and precious resources of the Mekong are increasingly endangered by the rush to…
Tom FawthropMarch 28, 2018
One of over 100 Vann Molyvann creations between 1956 -1970 blending ancient Angkorian with French modernist style Vann Molyvann designed buildings taking to keep them…
Tom FawthropNovember 2, 2017
