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Mekong region

Asean Business

Vietnam backs Cambodia’s Mekong canal, urges cooperation on impacts

VIETNAM supports Cambodia’s plan to build a canal from the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast and would like to be involved in finding solutions for the canal’s possible negative effects, its f...

The 180-km canal that will connect the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast has caused tension between Cambodia and neighbouring Vietnam, and sparked fears that it could be used by Chinese warships.
International

Cambodia to break ground on contentious Techo Funan canal in August

Prime Minister Hun Manet describes the development as a “historic project”

The 4,180-km Mekong River rises on the Tibetan plateau and flows through China and along the Myanmar-Laos and Laos-Thailand borders before passing through Cambodia and southern Vietnam into the South China Sea.
Opinion & Features

China changes tack on water politics

Long a source of tension with its neighbours, China’s transboundary rivers are opening opportunities for regional cooperation

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