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Chinese dams, channel blasting may spell disaster for mighty Mekong River |
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By Denis Gray
Associated Press
1 November 2002
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Developers advertise the Mekong River as "Asia's last
frontier."
Others warn of social and environmental disaster as China dams and blasts one
of the world's great untamed rivers, altering the flow to millions of people
downstream who depend upon the river.
"The Chinese hydropower dams,
channelization for navigation, and heavy commercial shipping will kill the
river," said Tyson Roberts of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. "The
dams will be a menace to livelihoods, property, and life in all of the
downstream countries."
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Where have all the fish in the Mekong gone? |
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By Fred Pearce
21 April 2004
http://www.mongabay.com/external/dying_mekong_river.htm
Once, the world's rivers teemed with fish. No longer. Around the globe, dams and
other river engineering projects have drastically reduced most inland fisheries.
But on one mighty river, the Mekong in South-east Asia, half a century of
warfare had kept the dam-builders away. As a result, even the poorest people in
countries such as Cambodia can still dine regularly on wild river fish.
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Asia's Hunger for Oil and Natural Gas |
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By Michael Richardson
Singapore Strait Times
30 July 208
Rising demand for oil to churn up South China Sea
ASIA'S thirst for oil and natural gas, together with a new generation of deep-water oil drilling vessels being built in China, South Korea and Singapore, combine to intensify the jockeying for control of a vast area of the South China Sea that is being disputed by six regional countries.
Two of the world's largest oil companies, ExxonMobil of the United States and Britain's BP, appear ready to ignore a challenge by China. Beijing has confirmed that it has told Exxon to cancel planned oil exploration ventures off the coast of Vietnam with the state oil group, PetroVietnam. Evidently following a similar warning from Beijing, BP last year halted plans to carry out exploration work off southern Vietnam, citing territorial tensions.
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China searches for a new asean paradigm |
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By Kavi Chongkittavorn
The Nation (Thailand)
23 June 2008
Gone are the days when China and Asean spoke with one voice. Since 1995, they have
worked in tandem on almost every issue, much to the chagrin, or perhaps wonder,
of non-Asean members. Now, with new strategic environments emerging, both sides
are groping for a new paradigm that they hope will sustain their relations and
mutual interests. It is a tall order as they increasingly are realising that
cooperation these days is becoming increasingly difficult.
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Singapore security forum points to US-China tensions |
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By John Chan
World Socialist Website
9 June 2008
Public jousting between US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Chinese general Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the general staff, during the Asia Security Summit in Singapore on May 30-June 1, point to rising tensions and rivalries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The annual forum of the region’s defence ministers and top security officials has become something of a barometer of US-China relations in recent years. Gates’s predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, used the meetings as a platform to berate China for its secretive military build-up. By contrast, Gates last year struck a more conciliatory note during his first appearance, speaking of building “trust over time” between the two countries.
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