PREK TAKEO: Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday (Aug 5) launched a controversial US$1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link from the Mekong River to the sea.
This aerial photo taken on Jul 9, 2024, shows workers using excavators to dig the Funan Techo Canal along the Prek Takeo channel that runs into the Mekong River in Cambodia 's Kandal province. PREK TAKEO: Cambodia 's Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday launched a controversial US$1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link from the Mekong River to the sea.
Conservationists have long warned that the river, which supports up to a quarter of the world's freshwater fish catch and half of Vietnam's rice production, isCambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand are signatories to the 1995 Mekong River Agreement, which governs the distribution of the river's resources.
The canal, one of former prime minister Hun Sun's signature infrastructure projects, is seen as a galvanising national undertaking to build support for his successor and son, Hun Manet. It says it is planning riverside economic zones along the route that it says could create tens of thousands of jobs for the country, which is among the poorest in Southeast Asia.
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