(2 Feb 2024)
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Luang Prabang Dam, Laos – 28 January 2024
1. Luang Prabang Dam 25 kilometers (15 miles) from Luang Prabang upstream on Mekong River
HEADLINE TEXT: Laos Dam Threatens World Heritage Web site
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 29 January 2024
2. Varied of Luang Prabang and Mekong River from Phousi Hill
ANNOTATION: The UNESCO World Heritage Web site of Luang Prabang in Laos attracts vacationers from all over the world.
3. Varied of vacationers taking images on Phousi Hill
4. Shut of Mekong
ANNOTATION: Guests are drawn to the pristine panorama of the town, which sits on the confluence of the Mekong and the Nam Khan rivers.
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Luang Prabang Dam, Laos – 28 January 2024
5. Varied of dam building
ANNOTATION: However simply 25 kilometers upstream on the Mekong, a dam building web site has prompted issues that it might end result within the metropolis dropping its UNESCO standing.
6. Varied of dam building web site
ANNOTATION: The Luang Prabang Dam is a multibillion-dollar venture, a part of the Laos authorities’s formidable plans to construct dams alongside the Mekong.
7. Broad of autos carrying rocks
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Chiang Mai, Thailand – 23 January 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Hirsch, professor emeritus of human geography at Sydney College:
“There are a number of hundred kilometers of nonetheless free flowing river, which can stop to be the case if the Luang Prabang Dam, or quite, when the Luang Prabang Dam is accomplished.”
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Mekong River between Luang Prabang Dam and Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
9. Varied of individuals fishing in river
ANNOTATION: As soon as accomplished, the venture is predicted to displace greater than 500 households and influence 20 villages.
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
7. Mid of Som Cellphone, 38-year-old tour boat operator and Luang Prabang resident searching over Mekong River in Luang Prabang
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Som Cellphone, tour boat operator:
“It’s a really excessive river. And after the dam, folks change. (They) must go excessive within the mountain as a result of (the) river (is) very excessive.”
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Mekong River between Luang Prabang Dam and Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
++OVERLAID ON PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
9. Broad of fisherman and boat on river
10. Village on river
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
11. Varied of tour boats on Mekong River
ANNOTATION: A ship journey to Luang Prabang is a well-liked method to journey for locals and vacationers alike.
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Washington D.C., United States – 24 January 2024
++PART UNDERLAID ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Eyler, director of the Washington-based Stimson Middle’s Southeast Asia Program and its Vitality, Water and Sustainability Program:
“That dam will break that have. As a substitute of being greeted by, you recognize, a UNESCO World Heritage Web site, you’ll be greeted by a dam, an enormous, ugly concrete construction.”
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Luang Prabang Dam, Laos – 28 January 2024
14. Varied of dam building
ANNOTATION: The difficulty of the dam might be mentioned by UNESCO in July throughout its conferences in New Delhi, however building continues within the meantime.
STORYLINE:
The UNESCO World Heritage Web site of Luang Prabang in Laos attracts vacationers from all over the world.
Guests are drawn to the pristine panorama of the town, which sits on the confluence of the Mekong and the Nam Khan rivers.
However simply 25 kilometers upstream on the Mekong, a dam building web site has prompted issues that it might end result within the metropolis dropping its UNESCO standing.
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