All posts by Tom Fawthrop

London-born journalist/ film-maker and NUJ member, Tom has reported on many of the major conflicts in SE Asia since 1979 and variously been based in Bangkok, Dili (East Timor), Manila, Phnom Penh and Chiang Mai.

Dams Development & Disaster on the Mekong

Given the Mekong’s critical state arising from 11 Chinese dams and the recent Xayaburi dam in Lao, a moratorium on all hydropower construction on the Mekong as part of a “New Deal to Save our Mekong” is needed now before it's too late.

/ April 23, 2020