Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
The Ca Ngu Vang (Golden Tuna) Oil Field, in Block 9-2 in the Mekong Basin, some 140 km offshore Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, pumped its first oil flow last …

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26-JUL-2008 Intellasia | Bloomberg
Cambodia plans to open its first stock exchange and start a corporate bond market in the fourth quarter of 2009 in a bid to attract foreign funds to Southeast Asia’s second-poorest nation, a government official said. …

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July 11, 2008
A group of some 40 leading Chinese academics and environmental activists is pressing home questions about the safety of high dams and big reservoirs in unstable areas of south west China. …

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Viet Nam News - Hanoi, Vietnam
According to statistics provided by the Steering Committee of the Co-ordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT), more than 6,600 Vietnamese women and children are known to have fallen victim to traffickers, while more than 21,000 women and children are missing – presumed to have been sold abroad. …

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Science Daily (press release) - USA
Verification of the model using more than 1750 available groundwater data points from the Bengal, Mekong and Red River deltas showed that the predictions …

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Le Grand Tour d’Angkor - Take a virtual tour of Angkor Wat and visit all the temples on the ‘Grand Tour’.

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Foreign Bribery: TI´s Progress Report on OECD Convention Enforcement

Berlin, 23 June 2008 - Less than half of OECD governments enforce foreign bribery prohibition. More than ten years after adoption of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, there is a dangerous stalemate on enforcement, according to a new report released today by Transparency International (TI).

Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. Read the 2008 Global Corruption Report - Corruption in the Water Sector.

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Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
An unlicensed distiller was arrested Wednesday in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho after beverages he sold apparently killed two people in Tan Phu Ward. …

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(25 June 2008) - Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda today unveiled a seven-point agenda to prioritize water investments in the Asia-Pacific region and said that the institution is committed to helping countries in the region boost new water investments to $20 billion to improve water security.

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Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
A recent greenlight from the government to expand rice exports after months of restrictions has injected new life into the paddy market in the Mekong Delta …

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