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The first meeting of the GMS Regional Power Trade Coordination Committee was held in Guilin in the People's Republic of China on 13-14 July 2004.

The First Meeting of the Regional Power Trade Coordination Committee (RPTCC-1) was held in Guilin, PRC on 13-14 July 2004. The Meeting was co-organized by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and China Southern Power Grid Co. (CSG) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

These are the conference proceedings from the first Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Ministers Meeting held in Shanghai in the People's Republic of China on 25 May 2005.

This is the joint statement from the First Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Ministers' Meeting in Shanghai in the People's Republic of China on 25 May 2005.

This issue of the Journal focuses on the seminal research undertaken by Social Research Institute of Chiang Mai University (SRI-CMU) on the question: How does community-based tourism (CBT) impact on poverty? Five research papers were selected from the SRI-CMU project. The overview article, Tourism: Blessings for All?, by Mingsarn Kaosa-ard, discusses the returns from tourism and how these returns are being shared from a national perspective. The benefits and the potential negative impacts of tourism are weighed.

This publications summarizes the outcome of the 7th Meeting of the Subregional Telecommunications Forum of the Greater Mekong Subregion held in Guilin, People's Republic of China on 30-31 March 2006.

This is the summary of proceedings from the 13th Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Environment (WGE AM-13) held on 13 -15 June 2007 in Guilin, Guangxi Province, People’s Republic of China.

The 6th Meeting of the Regional Power Trade Coordination Committee (RPTCC-6) was held to undertake the following:

At the core of the Mekong region are the 320 million people who share a common culture and are nourished by the same great river. More connected than ever before, lives are changing as the meaning of community expands beyond borders. The photographs in My Mekong take us into the heart of that community, as seen through the eyes of its young people.