(November 13, 2006) Thai Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand says he intends to scrap the previous government’s controversial multi-billion dollar plans to ramp up imports of hydroelectric power and natural gas from neighboring military-run Myanmar, signaling a potentially significant shift in which direction the region’s energy flows and a possible new era of bilateral antagonism between the historical rivals.

(October 19, 2006) Impoverished villagers along the vast Mekong are blaming China for threatening of the livelihoods of millions, writes Benjamin Robertson.

(September 15, 2006) Rights activists are calling on the Thai government and investors to withdraw their support for the construction of a dam on the Salween River in Burma’s Shan state, claiming the work will disrupt the lives of people living in the area.

(September 14, 2006) Controversial plans to dam the Salween River in Burma will proceed without a standard environmental-impact assessment study, despite serious concerns about the effect the project will have on the area’s people and natural surroundings.

(September 4, 2006) The controversial Salween dam projects are likely to go ahead without social and environmental impact studies to avoid interfering in Burma’s internal affairs, a senior official of the Thai utility EGAT says.

(August 9, 2006) ‘At both Maji and Songta there is much activity. Generators rumble, power tools blast into the riverbanks. Trucks full of workers and engineers are everywhere. According to some reports there have been no environmental impact surveys.’

(September 15, 2003) Electricity Generating PCL , a key Thai investor in Laos’ $1.1 billion hydropower project, will talk to the China Development Bank about helping fund the scheme and taking a stake in it.

(November 22, 2002) Rethinking Vietnam’s reliance on large hydro dams: Vietnam’s hydro expansion in the central highlands is not only an environmental menace to downstream Cambodians, it is a costly and inefficient strategy for expanding electricity supply, according to a new report on Vietnam’s power sector.

(November 10, 2002) Thailand should more aware adverse impact Chinese hydropower dams blasting rapids under Mekong Navigation Channel Improvement project, Chinese environmental expert warned yesterday.

(October 17, 2000) Journalist and environmental activist Wang Yongchen says local authorities in the Nu River region in Yunnan province covered up hydropower construction sites during a visit to the area by a delegation from UNESCO.

(December 9, 1999) The government has promised to clean up the Yangtze, which supplies water to almost 200 cities along its banks.