Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
The National Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Control Sunday urged provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta to make preparations for a possible flood …
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Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
The National Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Control Sunday urged provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta to make preparations for a possible flood …
By Anucha Charoenpo - Bangkok Post - Thailand
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) defended China’s dam operations yesterday which have been blamed by environmentalists for being a cause of the severe flooding in Thailand’s north and northeastern provinces. The flooding is said to be the worst in 100 years in the Mekong river basin. …
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Apologies for the pause in updates at this critical time on The Mekong.
I had all my stuff stolen from my apartment last weekend and have been trying to pick up the pieces since.
Normal service resumes immediately.
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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 …
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. …
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. …
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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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).
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