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12/10/2025

Delicious fried rice in a wedding dinner.

08/10/2025

Classmates gathered ten years back. Time really flies.

07/10/2025

Hot weather!

05/10/2025

Sunset at Port Dickson..

03/10/2025

Morning breakfast with black coffee. Yummy 😋

30/09/2025

An ivy gourd in a lush greenery. It's a wild but edible plant.

28/09/2025

Having a light lunch.

03/12/2020

Planning to sell ebooks here, any suggestions? TKS

19/04/2016

吴哥窟行程：圣剑寺之四（ Preah Khan) 庙宇部分的残墙断壁，有某种荒凉的氛围。。想起佛说的成住坏空，释然。。

22/07/2012

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31/05/2012

Laos River

Laos
Laos is a place of remarkable beauty, world-renowned biodiversity and abundant natural resources. The country is traversed by a thousand rivers that teem with life: people fishing, gardening and washing clothes; children swimming, laughing and playing; and water buffalo wading in the mud. This vast Lao river network also plays an essential role in the Mekong Basin, contributing 35 percent of the Mekong River's flow.
But these rivers that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies could be blocked, diverted and decimated by dams, according to a report from International Rivers. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by exporting the power generated by numerous hydroelectric projects. The companies and investors driving the current Lao hydro-boom hail from Thailand, China, Vietnam and Malaysia, though the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and companies from Japan, France, Norway and Belgium remain on the scene. The Lao power development plan contains 55 new large dams, 7 of which are under construction and nearly 15 more at advanced planning stages (see map and table).

Lao rivers and lands are also threatened by mining, rampant logging and large plantations. These destructive developments are often linked: forests are cleared for plantations, mines and hydro reservoirs; and hydropower is generated to fuel mining operations. Most of Lao hydropower, gold, copper, timber and rubber is shipped to Thailand, Vietnam and China.

In 2005, Laos adopted a National Policy on the Environmental and Social Sustainability of the Hydropower Sector, but the policy has yet to be implemented. In a country with no free press, no independent civil society organizations, and ranked as one of the world's ten most corrupt by Transparency International, dams have left a legacy of broken promises and uncompensated losses. As a result, tens of thousands of Laotians lack sufficient food to eat, clean water to drink and income to meet basic needs.

International Rivers works to stop destructive hydropower projects in Laos and advocates for the rights of communities affected by dams, such as Nam Theun 2, Theun-Hinboun, Nam Leuk and Nam Song.

11/05/2012

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