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Publication: Watershed : People's Forum on Ecology : Burma, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam

Existence: July - October 2003

General Note: 2 Editorial: Trade away peace and prosperity
4 News & Updates>br> 8 Interview: Vorasakdi Mahatdhanobol, a scholar of Chinese studies at Chulalongkorn University shares his thoughts on the political and economic relationships between Thailand and China, and the developments in Yunnan province of southern China and the Mekong River basin.
12 Cover Story: Risking Salinity in Thailand and Lao PDR: Numerous large-scale irrigation and salt-mining projects being planned or built are posing risks of salinisation of soil and water resources in northeast Thailand and some areas of Lao PDR. Iwona Wiszniewski explains the processes of salinisation that are leading to serious land degradation and threatening framing and local livelihoods.
26 Community Voices
30 Report: Thailand's Salween dams to fuel Southeast Asian regional grid at the cost of ethnic communities, forest and river: Plans to build dams on the Salween River would come at the cost of pristine forests and the farming and fishing livelihoods of hundred of local communities in Burma and Thailand.
34 Report: Banking on deforestation: Asian development Bank support to industrial forestry in Lao PDR: Chris Lang describes the ADB's involvement in the forest in Lao PDR and how the Bank is promoting industrial tree plantations at the expense of village people's community forest and lands.

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Citation: Watershed : People's Forum on Ecology : Burma, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam, 999Serial150799. July - October 2003, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=999Serial150799, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 999Serial150799, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive