China’s largest freshwater lake has become the center of controversy after the local government revived a plan to build a dam across it, a project shelved six years ago after environmental protests. Now the developers say they have a new reason to build the barrier — helping the environment. Three times the size of London,
Lao officials will soon submit plans for the Phou Ngoy Dam and hydropower plant to the Mekong River Commission for review, but villagers whose livelihoods would be hurt by the construction worry they will be left out of the process. “We can’t tell you what day or when exactly we’re going to do that,” said
Kumamoto – Japan will provide some ¥500 billion over the next five years to help solve water-related issues in the Asia-Pacific region, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday. Kishida made the remark at a summit-level session of the two-day Asia-Pacific Water Summit, which began in Kumamoto the same day. The prime minister indicated his country’s
Cambodian’s autocratic Prime Minister Hun Sen has doled out at least 900 hectares of land reclaimed from one of the last large natural lakes in Phnom Penh to his sister, a wealthy tycoon and ally, and top military officials all benefiting from the largesse, according to a domestic land rights organization. The privatization and filling
Chinese developers are preparing to begin work on two major hydropower dams to be built on the Mekong River in Laos, projects government officials hope will bring the impoverished country closer to its goal of become the battery of Southeast Asia. But compensation and relocation packages for villagers affected by the massive infrastructure projects are
A Chinese-made tunnel boring maker, in a file picture by Xinhua News Agency. ,” he stated. ” It might be that they want to do agriculture or industry, or possibly some mining or there are minerals. Presently, this location is a dry desert area, so theres no water.” A deceptive 500-kilometer-long watering job China is
