A plea for Xayaburi

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Published: 5 Aug 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

On behalf of an alliance of civil society organisations working to protect and restore river ecosystems and river-based livelihoods in Cambodia, we are calling on the Thai and Lao governments to immediately halt all construction work on the proposed Xayaburi hydropower project in Northern Lao PDR.

We believe that if the dam goes forward it will have irreversible negative impacts.

We urge Prime Minster Yingluck Shinawatra to take responsible action by decisively cancelling the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Thai company Ch Karnchang.

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upena
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Discussion 8 : 05 Aug 2012 at 18.308
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Sag

Unless there were bare breasts at the concert, the Minister of Culture wouldn't notice.
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Discussion 7 : 05 Aug 2012 at 15.037
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Thanks jck
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Discussion 6 : 05 Aug 2012 at 13.356
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Thaksin bought the taxis loyalty by paying off their traffic tickets for them one day .Nothing more Nothing less .The poor can be bought off very cheap unfortunately .It a shame Thaksin never taught them to fish but instead preferred to give them fish one by one paid for with your tax money of course .Its all the more disgusting when you look at how much money he actually has .
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Discussion 5 : 05 Aug 2012 at 11.535
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Mogy71: Lovely in pink, "Lifestyle"
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Discussion 4 : 05 Aug 2012 at 11.324
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The calculating by Campbell is suspect as he opinions that the cost of living has more than doubled in 25 years.A more accurate figure would have been that the cost of living has risen more than FOUR times!
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Discussion 3 : 05 Aug 2012 at 11.213
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Could someone on this link let me know where to find Biggs and Brunch in the online edition ?
I've tried emailing the editors but no response.
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Discussion 2 : 05 Aug 2012 at 10.202
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Thanks KhunBob, I was going to say that. Moreover, Thaksin's government subsidized LPG price. I think Campbell is just a typical Thaksin basher.
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Discussion 1 : 05 Aug 2012 at 05.381
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Campbell your full of soup. How can you compare the cost of a taxi now and then. First almost all taxis run off a LPG a fuel much cheaper than Petrol. Please compare apples to apples and not chicken soup to cream of chicken.
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