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What is your name?: Piyaporn

What is your job title?: Reporter

What organisation do you work for?: The Bangkok Post

What aspects of biodiversity are you most interested in?: Access and benefit sharing, Agriculture, Biotechnology, CBD negotiations, Communicating biodiversity, Climate change, Ecosystem services, Education, Endangered species, Forests, Invasive species, Poverty and biodiversity, Protected areas, Trade and biodiversity, Traditional knowledge

What languages do you speak?: English

Please use this section to introduce yourself in more detail, adding any other relevant information not included in your previous answers. The site administrator will use this answer to decide whether to approve your membership: Hi,I have been working as a journalist for ten years now and intend to stay in the media business until I retire.I came from a country side so I am particularly interested in rural development. I ever worked as as a co-producer for a news programme, a script writer, before becoming a journalist.
I am now with the Bangkok Post, covering environmental issues and development issues, plus some other social and political issues as assigned. Love to learn, learn, and learn:)

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The Mekong

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For those interested in the Mekong issues, today will mark a turning point of the region. The four Lower Mekong countries will meet and discuss to get a decision about the first dam on the river section. If built, it will set a precedence for other 10 more to follow amid concerns among environmentalists that the dams would cause irreversible impacts to the river ecosystem as well as communities which depend on the river for centuries. That's how the story goes. More to come. Check…

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Posted on April 19, 2011 at 4:33