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Child malnutrition rates still high in Laos despite best effortsThe UN’s World Food Programme provides supplemental food to children for up to a thousand days in the country’s seven poorest provinces, but most villagers in the province eat only rice. -
Host nations must drive China's Belt and Road towards sustainability. Here's howThe biggest infrastructure project of the 21st century promises economic prosperity, but only if host nations ensure that development does not destroy the natural environment or uproot communities. What can be done?
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Developers press ahead with dams despite order to halt new projectsDevelopers of two proposed hydropower projects in Laos are pressing ahead with plans to build the mega-dams on the Mekong River, despite a recent order by the government to halt new dam investments following a deadly breach in July that killed 35 people and displaced thousands. -
Laos suspends new dams as tragedy raises wider fearsDam collapse sparks government review of hydropower and could open the way for more wind and solar in the Mekong.
Opinion
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How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong– Those in power must give stronger voices to marginalised communities and protection to natural flood defences, say experts from the Stockholm Environment Institute. -
The Laos disaster reminds us that local people are too often victims of dam development– The tragedy in Laos has trained the spotlight on the unceasing development taking place along the banks of the Mekong River and the real winners and losers of Southeast Asia's plans. -
3 ways to fill Asia-Pacific’s social protection gap– Cash transfer programs, efficient government expenditure and capacity building are ways in which communities across Asia can receive adequate social protection and meet their basic needs.
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