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China wishes to work together with Thailand and other Mekong countries to ensure a practical and effective mechanism for the Lancang-Mekong Coopeation(LMC) ,Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Monday.
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) on the Mekong Region was first held in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Tuesday under the theme "Making the Mekong Mighty: Investing in Fixed Capital, Human Capital, and Network Capital."
"I come from Luang Prabang in northern Laos. I lost my vision since early this year," Khamphong, a 50-year-old patient with cataract told Xinhua Thursday in Lao capital Vientiane.
Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta, the largest in the region and known as the country's "rice bowl," is striving to realize agricultural targets set for 2016 amid harsh drought conditions and saline intrusion.
The World Bank (WB) and the State Bank of Vietnam on Monday signed agreements for loans and credits worth 560 million U.S. dollars for two projects to support urban development, climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods in the Mekong Delta.
Vietnamese Prime Minister (PM) Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith on Sunday agreed to work with other countries and international organizations to manage and use the Mekong water resources in a sustainable and effective manner.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday expressed profound gratitude to China for discharging water from a hydropower station to the drought-hit countries along the Mekong River.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that the country is facing severe drought and expresses his hope that China will continue releasing water into downstream Mekong River.
Leaders from six countries along the Lancang-Mekong River convened in China's Sanya on Wednesday to discuss future cooperation.
A Southwest China hydropower station has increased water discharges to up to 2,190 cubic meters per second on a trans-boundary river, in order to provide emergency water supply to Vietnam and other countries in the drought-afflicted Southeast Asian region, Chen Lei, Minister of Water Resources said on Wednesday.
Private carrier Air Mekong has its business license officially revoked by Vietnam's Ministry of Transport (MoT) after it has suspended flights for nearly two years, local media reported Friday.
The second Summit of the Mekong River Commission wrapped up in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday after four days of sitting, with key outcomes reached by participants to the event.
Addressing the forum, themed "Policies and Mechanism to support development of renewable energy in the sub-Mekong countries," Finnish Ambassador to Vietnam Kimmo Lohdevirta said that with Finland's policy to support development of green energy, the EEP has been implemented in 25 countries, contributing to the promotion of energy services and reduction of green house emission.