(April 7, 2009) In the name of cheap power, Thailand’s electric utility has joined forces with its Burmese counterpart to build a large hydroelectric dam near the Thai border, where the Burmese army has waged war against ethnic minorities for decades.

(December 17, 2008) Investors have decided to suspend major electricity power development projects in Laos as a result of the international financial crisis, according to a Ministry of Planning and Investment official.

(December 11, 2008) In a desperate bid to attract investment in Cambodia’s failing power sector, the government is offering guaranteed power revenues to Chinese companies willing to finance and build large hydro dams, and sell their entire output to the financially-strapped state utility, Electricite du Cambodge (EdC).  

(November 30, 2008) Lancang hydro development has entered a new phase, according to Dali (Yunnan) Daily News.

(November 30, 2008) Ever since Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) began damming the Sesan River for hydropower, affected communities in downstream Cambodia have grappled with the question: what, if anything, can be done to reduce the worst effects of EVN dam operations?

(November 29, 2008) Egat International Co (Egat Inter), a subsidiary of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, has received coal exploration and production rights in Sumatra from the Indonesian government, which will strengthen its power generating portfolio overseas.

(November 18, 2008) Environmentalists say regional forums have proven themselves inadequate to address the cross-border impacts of a slew of hydropower dam projects planned for southern Laos.

(November 15, 2008) Ever since Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) began damming the Sesan River for hydropower, affected communities in downstream Cambodia have grappled with the question: what, if anything, can be done to reduce the worst effects of EVN dam operations?