(May 14, 2003) Crucial player pulled out of deal, says the Pollution Control Department.

(April 29, 2003) Vietnam hydro utility fails to compensate downstream communities in Cambodia.

(April 8, 2003) Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gives panel police-like powers.

(April 1, 2003) In Vietnam’s mountainous northwest, the Son La People’s Committee has moved the first 52 people of a total of 91,000 that will be forcibly
evicted to make way for the massive Son La dam.

(March 26, 2003) But activists warn of environmental harm.

(February 27, 2003) Klong Dan wastewater treatment plant will be left standing like a monument, and two small plants built to take its place, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday.

(February 27, 2003) Construction of the Klong Dan wastewater treatment project in Samut Prakan proceeded without a wastewater specialist, the Special Investigation Department (SID) has confirmed.

(February 26, 2003) Original plans could be dragged off shelf; two small plants and B20bn white elephant.

(February 26, 2003) Praphat Panyachartrak, minister for natural resources and the environment, turned heads on Monday when he announced plans to scrap the contract to build a controversial wastewater treatment plant in Samut Prakan province.

(February 20, 2003) The choice dam site of Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand in Karen State will still inundate parts of Karenni and Shan states upstream, according to an informed source from Thailand-based environmental group today.

(February 18, 2003) Pollution control officials get blame.

(February 17, 2003) Environmental impacts and unforeseen disasters are forcing villagers in the Theun-Hinboun area to abandon their traditional fishing lifestyles
and become farmers growing crops and vegetables.

(February 13, 2003) New Energy Minister Prommin Lertsuridej yesterday floated the idea of having the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) raise
funds from the stock market to finance the Salween dam to finance a large-scale hydro-power project on the Salween River to help alleviate the government’s financial burden.

(February 12, 2003) Villagers fear farm losses, subsidence.