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Time to push China for real Mekong partnership
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 02/11/2019
» The Asean summit offers a great opportunity for Mekong riparian countries to press China, a major dialogue partner, on commitments for sustainable development of the region's most important river.
Will China turn off the Mekong tap?
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 10/08/2019
» Countries in the lower Mekong basin are watching anxiously to see whether their "big brother" to the north will tackle the growing Mekong River crisis.
Govt sits idly by as China churns up the Mekong
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 04/07/2019
» Recently, a coalition of civil society groups, which has monitored development on and along the Mekong River, issued a frightening statement. Fluctuations of river flows during the past three decades have been at record highs, they said.
Environmentalists blast Mekong River destruction
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 20/05/2017
» The sighting of Chinese surveyor boats in the Mekong River off Chiang Rai last month set off alarm bells for environmentalists, activists and local villagers who fear the beginning of the end of the ecological richness which is threatened by reef blasting.
Latex helps nip drug trade in bud
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 14/11/2015
» Getting enough water has always been a struggle in remote highland villages in Lampang’s Ngao district. But help is coming to the villagers in the form of liquid latex.
Big plans for the river of life
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 27/12/2014
» When the Asean Economic Community (AEC) swings into action late next year, great changes will be effected along the magnificent Mekong River, not to mention the bustling road networks which link the main countries in the southeast Asian mainland.
The villagers who could
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 07/12/2013
» In the space of just a couple of years, the villagers of Ban Sap Phut in Phetchabun have shown others how to turn their lives around by employing a sustainability lifestyle encouraged by academics, private companies and their own desire to break out of a lifestyle of abject poverty.