The Cambodian government has unveiled plans for a new canal that would link some of Cambodia’s key ports to the broader Gulf of Thailand. Upon completion, the Funan Techo Canal will stretch southward over 180 kilometres beginning from Phnom Penh Autonomous Port. The coverage would allow direct...
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OPINION | China’s “blue dragon” strategy in the Indo-Pacific
To compete strategically with the United States and undermine President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy, China has quietly been advancing its stealthy divide-and-conquer foreign policy agenda on four different but connected frontiers. The core of Beijing’s comprehensive plan can be described as a “blue dragon” strategy, anchored primarily between two “unsinkable aircraft carriers”, Sri Lanka and […]
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Three arrested over deadly river ferry sinking in south-eastern Cambodia
Police in Cambodia have arrested three people for their reported involvement in a ferry sinking incident that claimed 15 lives in the Mekong River in the south-eastern pa ..
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Cambodia ferry tragedy death toll climbs to 14
Search and rescue/recovery teams have located the bodies of six additional victims of a deadly river ferry sinking incident that occurred in the Mekong River in south-eas ..
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OPINION | China’s problematic solution to its water-security woes
Beijing has long understood that China has a water-security problem that could pose an existential threat. In 2005, China’s minister for water resources reportedly ..
COLUMN | Will China turn off Asia’s tap?
Even after Asia’s economies climb out of the Covid-19 recession, China’s strategy of frenetically building dams and reservoirs on transnational rivers will confront ..
FEATURE | Fifty years of foiling
The following is the keynote address delivered by Baird Maritime co-founder Dr Neil Baird at the fiftieth anniversary virtual symposium of the International Hydrofoil ..
OPINION | Duelling diplomacy over Southeast Asia’s most important river
The Mekong, Southeast Asia’s most important river, has for millennia supported the rise and fall of empires and is responsible for the livelihood of over 65 million ..
OPINION | Chinese dams and the Mekong drought
The latest reports from the Lower Mekong Basin are cause for growing concern that another period of drought will succeed that of 2019, affecting Laos, Thailand, Cambodia ..
Jianglong Shipbuilding delivers 10 patrol boats for Cambodian police
Jianglong Shipbuilding has delivered 10 new patrol boats in a series to the Lancang Mekong River Integrated Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Centre, an ..