A New Mandala reader has sent through these comments on the period immediately before Cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawaddy Delta. It will, I’m sure, be of interest to many.
I was due to go to Yangon on the Sunday but was told by the Burmese friend I was going to meet there that they were expecting bad [...]
Storm warnings, Cyclone Nargis and the media
June 12th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
Tags: Cyclone Nargis · Uncategorized
Beer snacks
June 12th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 2 Comments
Tags: Northern Thailand · Snapshots · Sufficiency Economy
The hydrological hazards of tree planting
June 12th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 13 Comments
I recently read a report that Laos is going to embark on a spate of tree-planting:
A report released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry last week said that Laos plans to plant trees covering at least 25,000 hectares this year. This is a part of the bigger plan to reforest covering up to 53% [...]
Tags: Environment · Focus on Laos · Laos