Climate change, regional integration and safeguards were highlighted by speakers at a SUMERNET roundtable at the regional symposium on the role of social and environmental safeguards held by the Mekong Partnership for the Environment (MPE) in Bangkok on 25-27 August 2015.
All of Myamar’s planned coal-fired power projects are likely to be delayed beyond the general election, which is set to be held on November 8, according to officials.
HA NOI(VNS) — Viet Nam plans to reduce its ownership stakes in some state energy companies, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said earlier this week.
In a month spent traveling through Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, I found a remarkable disconnect between the concerns of academic critics and NGOs about the Mekong River's future and the public attitude of governments already engaged in dam-building.
Vietnam’s northeastern province of QuangNinh, home of UNESCO-listed Halong Bay and the country’s coal reserves, suffered from heavy rains last week which led to flood the coal mines.
This information affirmed by the General Director of Power Machines Open JSC (Russia) at a working meeting with the Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang in Hanoi on August 3.