As a nation in the lower Mekong River basin, Vietnam potentially bears serious impacts from programmes and development projects deployed on the mainstream of the upper river, and therefore needs to put forward solutions to deal with different development scenarios.…
Vietnam could face a fresh water crisis because of poor resource management, a new report says. It says the problem could be exacerbated by the fact that most of its rivers originate in neighboring countries who could build upstream dams…
Save the Mekong Press Release: For Immediate Release 1 May 2012 Phuket, Thailand – As the Mekong River Commission (MRC) member countries gather today for the MRC’s Mekong 2 Rio International Conference on Transboundary River Basin Management, the Save the…
Wide-ranging coalition calls for the dam to be cancelled. A crucial meeting takes place tomorrow in Siem Reap, Cambodia, among the ministers of the Mekong River Commission on whether to proceed with the US$3.5 billion Xayaburi Dam, the first of…
Press Release: For Immediate Release [6 December 2011] As the Ministers of the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC) Council prepare to meet tomorrow to discuss whether to proceed with the Xayaburi Dam, the Save the Mekong coalition, a network of civil…
A news report by VTC about the policy roundtable "Mainstream Mekong Dams: Implications on Livelihoods, Food Security and Regional Stability" organized by PanNature and the Institute of Legislative Studies (a research body of the National Assembly of Vietnam) on 4th…