Cambodia, Vietnam united on Xayaburi

Cambodia and Vietnam will write a joint letter to the Lao and Thai governments urging that construction of the Xayaburi dam, in northern Laos, be halted, a spokesman for the government’s Mekong committee said yesterday. Minister of Water Resources Lim Kean Hor met with Vietnam’s Minister of Natural Re­sources and Environment, Nguyen Minh Quang on Tuesday after claims last week that construction of the hydro-electric dam on the Lower Mekong River had escalated. …

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