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
Beijing’s plan to blast rocks and rapids in the Mekong River to make way for bigger boats and faster trade is strongly opposed by grass…
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
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
THE MIGHTY KHONE PRAPENG FALLS SIPANDON SOUTHERN LAOS pic Tom Fawthrop Eureka Films has just completed a second film about the dams on the Mekong.Scientists have…
Tom FawthropDecember 3, 2014
Where have all the fish gone, a documentary directed by Tom Fawthrop, examines how the cascade of dams being built on the Mekong river is…
Tom FawthropDecember 2, 2014
“If the Mekong is destroyed, the fishery, according to estimates, will be reduced by something like between 40 percent to 60 percent.” A documentary showing…
Tom FawthropFebruary 18, 2014
Cambodia has come a long way since the brutal Pol Pot regime, but the recent flood of hate-mail and death-threats sent to the president of…
Tom FawthropFebruary 14, 2014
