• Mekong: MRC doing the wrong checking
• What's happening in the pulp and paper sector?

• Laos: Vietnamese companies set up rubber plantations in the south
• Legal and illegal logging in Vietnam

2004

• A divided community around the Tan Mai Paper Mill
• Government repression of Indigenous Peoples

2003

• Laos: Vietnamese consortium plans to build six dams
• Na Hang dam – the reality of sustainable development?
• Unique biodiversity threatened by World Bank-funded cement plant
• Vietnam starts resettlement to make way for massive Son La dam
• Construction of Kontum pulp and paper mill suspended

2002

• Swedish involvement in dam that will hit Cambodians
• Na Hang dam threatens forests, people and wildlife
• Massive plantations ahead

2001

• Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank
• Shrimps, Mangroves and the World Bank (2)
• Social and environmental impacts from export-oriented coffee production
• Carbon sink plantations to avoid emission reductions in Australia
• Dam in Vietnam hits Cambodians

2000

• Road-building threatens Phong Nha Nature Reserve
• Whose trees? Vietnam's five million hectare "reforestation" programme
• Highway project would gravely affect protected areas

1999

• Government promotes "bioinvasion"
• Made in Vietnam, cut in Cambodia

1998

• Vietnam invades Cambodian forests
• Forestry model in crisis
• Good old incentives for plantations.

1997

• A "paper tiger" in South East Asia?

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Mekong groups call for World Bank, ADB and other donors to stop promoting tree plantations

• Statement Of Unity - Mekong Regional Conference on Tree Plantations - Cambodia, November 21 - 22, 2006

• Plantations are not Forests. Commercial Tree Plantations in the Mekong Region
  Watershed Vol. 9 No. 3 March - June 2004
  Published by Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (TERRA)

• Tree plantations and Erosion: A case study in Yen Lap district, Phu Tho province, Vietnam
  by Koen Maathuis and Elise Pinners, VECO Vietnam, Hanoi

• Community-driven regulation: Towards an improved model of environmental regulation in Vietnam
  by Dara O’Rourke, Department of Environment Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

• Deforestation in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
  by Chris Lang
  Published in Vajpeyi, D.K. "Deforestation, Environment, and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis."

• Pulping the Mekong. Compilation of articles and briefing papers written and edited by Chris Lang in 2002-2003.
  Published by: Oxfam Mekong Initiative, TERRA, World Rainforest Movement

• The Pulp Invasion: The international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region

• Vietnam: Deforestation, reforestation and industrial plantations
  by Chris Lang

• Globalization of the Pulp and Paper Industry  
  by Chris Lang, MSc in Forestry and Land Use
  Oxford University, 1996.

LINKS

MEKONG RIVER
http://mekongriver.org/

Mekong info
http://www.mekonginfo.org/

Oxfam Mekong Initiative
http://www.oxfammekong.org/ 

Tropenbos International - Vietnam Programme
http://www.tropenbos.nl/