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Chinese dams on Mekong drying up Thailand's gold panners fortunes
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], May 26 (ANI): The Chinese dams are blamed for turning gold dreams of Mekong panners into dust, especially Thailand's gold panners.
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Dams along Mekong by China threatening farmers and fish in Southeast Asia:
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], April 8 (ANI): China's construction of large hydropower dams along the river to feed country's growing energy needs is causing problems downriver -- having devastating impacts on water availability and the fertile soil that feeds hundreds of millions of people in South
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Chinese dams release Mekong waters on Laos; pose threats to aquatic life
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Vientiane [Laos], April 8 (ANI): Chinese dams on the Mekong River have begun unleashing water during the river's normal dry season, posing threats to aquatic life in Laos, along with thousands of people living alongside the river in Southeast Asian country, according to a report by Radio Fre
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US raises concerns over China's upstream dams on Mekong river basin
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 1 (ANI): Raising concerns over the dipping water-levels of the Mekong River and upstream dams in China, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Ambassador Atul Keshap points out that upstream dams in China that exacerbate drough
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Amazing Thailand offers delicious, healthy, popular food choices. Top dish
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 26 (ANI/Mediawire): Blessed is the country of Thailand where nature is preserved in its bounty and flavorsome healthy food is available for all.
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Mekong River: US calls on China to live up to its commitments on water dat
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 24 (ANI): Raising concerns over the dropping water-levels of the Mekong River, the United States on Tuesday (local time) called on China to 'live up to its commitments to water data transparency'.
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Dams on Mekong river benefits upriver countries, adversely affects downriv
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 22 (ANI): Dams on the Mekong river, which originates in China, have adversely affected the livelihoods of people living in downriver countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia while the upriver neighbours continue to reap benefits of hydropower projects.
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After Mekong, China focuses to take control over Brahmaputra's water
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], February 11 (ANI): In yet another example where China has run into rough waters with its neighbours, the country has planned to build the world's biggest dam on River Brahmaputra - a 60-gigawatt mega-dam in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), reported Al Jazeera.
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Quad member states meet to review strategic developments in Indo-Pacific
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 19 (ANI): Senior officials from the United States, Australia, India, and Japan met virtually on Friday (local time) and reviewed recent strategic developments throughout the Indo-Pacific region, including the South China Sea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Mekong sub-re
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Fear of rivers drives China to tame even Mekong river
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], Aug 1 (ANI): As China perceives rivers as dangerous and wild natural systems that need to be tamed to be productive for mankind, the Beijing government constructed a dam on the Mekong river, thus, impacting the food and economic security of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Tha
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ASEAN looks to boost sub-regional development
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hanoi (Vietnam), July 15 (VNA/ANI): The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is emerging and playing a central role in the region, thus looking to converge Mekong sub-regional cooperation with its development goals, according to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung,
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China limiting Mekong river's flow triggered drought in region, says US-ba
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], April 14 (ANI): A US-based research company has found that China limited the flow of the Mekong River following the construction of a number of its sprawling dams in its territory in the backdrop of a severe drought in the region last year.
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