The wrong kind of MEKONG BOOM

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The wrong kind of MEKONG BOOM
By PIYAPORN WONGRUANG
THE NATION
 

Countries through which the Mekong River flows have long held an ambition to turn the 4,000-kilometre channel into a “fast track” for trade.

 

The latest of several plans hatched over the decades is the Master Plan for Regional Waterborne Transport in the Lower Mekong Basin, which was finalised and endorsed by the Mekong Joint Committee last year. 

 

Addressed at the same meeting was the Development Plan of International Navigation on the Lancang-Mekong River 2015-2025, which the Thai cabinet recently approved in principle along with preliminary work on the Navigation Channel Improvement Project on the Lancang-Mekong.

 

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