{"id":3952,"date":"2010-04-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/cambodians-hit-as-mekong-dries-up\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T08:53:47","slug":"cambodians-hit-as-mekong-dries-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/04\/cambodians-hit-as-mekong-dries-up\/","title":{"rendered":"CAMBODIANS HIT AS MEKONG DRIES UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nations around the Mekong are meeting in Thailand to discuss the vital river&#8217;s low water levels. The once mighty Mekong is at a 50-year low in parts of Thailand and Laos.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese companies have started construction on two hydroelectric dams in Cambodia, one on a tributary of the river.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Cambodia government has much to lose by being too critical of China, which continues to pump billions of dollars into the country&#8217;s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Wayne Hay reports from northern Cambodia, where the lack of water is affecting people&#8217;s livelihoods. <\/p>\n<p>2:57-Min. Video<\/em><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\" http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/video\/asia-pacific\/2010\/04\/2010423586919612.html\" ><br \/>CLICK TO VIEW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nations around the Mekong are meeting in Thailand to discuss the vital river&#8217;s low water levels. The once mighty Mekong is at a 50-year low in parts of Thailand and Laos. Chinese companies have started construction on two hydroelectric dams in Cambodia, one on a tributary of the river. However, the Cambodia government has much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}