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  • OPINION

    Future of rivers in PM's hands

    News, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 25/09/2023

    » In a speech to parliament on Sept 11, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin outlined policies, action plans and commitments that his government will take over the next four years for the "benefit and happiness of all Thai people".

  • OPINION

    Free-flowing Salween River needs protection

    Oped, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 14/03/2023

    » This morning at Sob Moei -- the confluence of the Moei and the Salween rivers on the Thailand-Myanmar border -- indigenous peoples and their supporters are attending a spiritual ceremony to express their collective stance to protect the Salween River from destructive dam projects.

  • OPINION

    Today is a 'Day of Action for Rivers'

    News, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 14/03/2022

    » On a sandy beach by the Salween River on the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2006, boats carrying Karen villagers and other ethnic groups such as Karenni, Yintalai and Shan from various areas in the Salween Basin are arriving to join an important yet simple ceremony.

  • OPINION

    Salween diversion project enters troubled waters

    Oped, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 26/09/2020

    » Over the past few months, the Irrigation Department and the House Committee Review of Integrated River Basin Management have been heavily promoting an inter-basin water diversion scheme. Planned projects will divert water across Thailand, incorporating international river basins, including the Mekong and Salween, to address "water shortages" in Thailand.

  • OPINION

    Karen fear ravages from river diversion schemes

    News, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 14/03/2020

    » Muesaw Chokedilok, an ethnic Karen woman from Thailand's Kaburdin Village in Chiang Mai's Omkoi district, hops aboard an old pickup truck for a rugged ride up the mountain. With her are a group of housewives from the same village, all clad in cotton handwoven clothes with beaded lace and colourful headscarves. They are on the way to meet a group of journalists from Bangkok. Their village is at least four hours by car to Muang Chiang Mai.

  • OPINION

    Mekong needs accountability, now

    News, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 14/11/2017

    » Last Wednesday, Pitsanukorn Deekaew, a resident of Chiang Khong district in Chiang Rai, received a welcome message from his lawyer. The appeal motion in his lawsuit regarding the Pak Beng dam project in Laos had been admitted for consideration by Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court.

  • OPINION

    Salween dams threaten river communities

    News, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 29/09/2016

    » The Thai government's recent push to speed up its energy investment in Myanmar's Salween River contradicts its own efforts to warn Thai investors from operating overseas projects that violate human rights.

  • THAILAND

    Visit is chance to rethink investments

    News, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 23/06/2016

    » This week's visit by Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's state counsellor, to Thailand appears to hold out hope for Thai state and private investors to revitalise their plans for key investments in Myanmar. Among these projects, the most prominent are the Dawei Special Economic Zone and a cascade of hydroelectric dams on the Salween River.

  • OPINION

    Right way forward for the Mekong River

    News, Pianporn Deetes, Published on 05/03/2016

    » This week in Vientiane, the hydropower industry gather to attend the International Conference and Exhibition on Water Resources and Hydropower Development in Asia.

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