Can Tho – Vietnam wants Lao to reconsider the Pak Beng hydropower project as its environmental impacts to the Mekong Delta will strike Vietnam, Cambodia and…
Tom FawthropMay 18, 2017
China’s plan for the Mekong River envisions a big new commercial port at Luang Prabang, a United Nations designated World Heritage site and heart of…
Tom FawthropMay 16, 2017
In what should be welcome news for the many concerned about the future of the Mekong, an Indian court has recognised the Ganges and the…
Tom FawthropApril 18, 2017
A proposal to establish a wider channel for commercial shipping on the Mekong has sparked outrage among environmentalists, writes Tom Fawthrop Hundreds of Thai NGOs…
Tom FawthropFebruary 10, 2017
The Thai government has moved ahead with the plan to boost trade, sparking outrage among environmentalists. Hundreds of Thai NGOs are mobilising a campaign…
Tom FawthropFebruary 6, 2017
Saving the Salween: Southeast Asia's last major undammed river Tom Fawthrop, 13th June, 2016 The free-flowing Salween is the last big undammed river in Southeast…
Tom FawthropJuly 25, 2016
ALONG the banks of the Mekong in Laos, the forest has been stripped and the mountainside gouged out. Construction of the Xayaburi dam, the first…
Tom FawthropJanuary 7, 2016
Mekong consultants have exposed serious flaws in the Don Sahong Dam project, which continues regardless. A battle is raging over the swirling currents, the rock…
Tom FawthropDecember 29, 2014
