BY ISSUES

• Forest, afforestation, deforestation, watershed
  primary forest: China, Laos, Cambodia
  slash & burn and shifting cultivation: Laos
  depletion, logging: Laos, Burkina, Cambodia underwater logging: Laos
  forest management training: Laos
  aerial views, flooded forests: Cambodia
  saw mill: Cambodia
  wood market: Burkina, Cambodia
  mangrove forests, depletion, logging camp, agent orange damages, reforestation: Vietnam
  watershed management: Laos, India
  

• Religion, Buddhism, Islam:
  Buddhist monks, pagodas, ceremonies: Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, China
  Buddhist New Year: Laos
  Islamic mosques, medresas, mausoleum: Usbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kirgistan, Turkmenistan, Burkina
  pilgrims: Usbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kirgistan, Turkmenistan Ismailits: Tadjikistan
  
  

• Fish, fishery:
  project for protection of sweet water dolphins: Laos Pla Buek (giant catfish) catching: Thailand
  various trad. fishing methods: Laos
  fish traps: Cambodia
  fish farming on rafts: Vietnam
  shrimp farming: logging, logging camps, digging of ponds, processing of shrimps, shrimp factory: Vietnam cormorant-fishing: China
  
  

• Water, navigation, dams, hydropower:
  Man Wan dam: China
  Pak Mun dam: dam site, power plant, protests, affected people & villages: Thailand
  Mekong: marine world, river traffic, boats, fishery, hydropower, cargo, navigation, rapids and waterfalls, tourism, Mekong Committee activities
  watershed management: Laos, India
  water pollution: China
  water shortage: Burkina, India
  Great Man Made River: Libya
  irrigation: Libya, Usbekistan, Philippines, Turkmenistan, India
  

• Silk Road:
  horse caravan: China
  silk production: Usbekistan, China
  old monuments, buildings: China, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan
  old trade centres, markets: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan
  construction of New Silk Road: Uzbekistan
  
  
  

• Trade, reform policy, transformation, economical opening:
  economical opening: Laos
  "Doi Moi": economic and social change, boom, new era, export, trade, industry, small scale business, handicraft, markets, traffic, ferries, passenger boats, airports, ports: Vietnam
  transformation process in former Sowjet Union: old sowchoses, privatization, markets, reforms, agriculture, social problems: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan
  
  

• History, politics:
  French colonial times: Laos, Cambodia
  Indochina war: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
  prehistorical rockpaintings: Thailand, Libya
  Pol Pot times, UNTAC mission, King Sihanouk: coronation ceremony, Red Khmer Regime: Tuol Sleng, concentration camp, Killing Fields, mine clearing: Cambodia
  "boatpeople", EU reintegration programme: Vietnam Ghaddafi holding speech: Libya
  UNMOT mission, civil war, opposition: Tadjikistan
  

• Desert, desertification:
  Karakum, Turkmenistan
  Sahara, Libya
  Lake Aral, Uzbekistan
  Sahel, Burkina
  Maharashtra, India
  Valencia, Spain
  
  
  
  

• Rice:
  low level subsistance cultivation: Cambodia, Laos
  rice bank, digging of canals for rice irrigation: Cambodia, Laos
  sticky rice preparation: Laos
  rice cultivation in China
  swimming rice: Cambodia
  IRRI: Philippines
  Rice terraces of Banaue, Philippines
  irrigation, threshing, clearing, drying, storage, milling, application of chemicals, trade, transportation, rice exporting vessels: Vietnam
  
  

• General agriculture, animal husbandry:
  cattle raising: Kazhakstan, Kirgistan, Turkmenistan, Libya, Burkina
  rubber plantation, tea: China
  nomad herders: Tibet
  cotton: Kazakhstan, Usbekistan
  silk: Usbekistan
  camel breeding: Libya, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan farming: Libya, Burkina, Usbekistan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, India

• Arts, music, celebrations:
  theatre boat: Vietnam
  dragon dance: Vietnam
  boat races: Cambodia, China
  buddhist new year: Laos
  trad. music: Turkmenistan, Burkina, Tadjikistan, Usbekistan, Cambodia
  trad. dance: Laos, Cambodia
  weddings: Laos, Usbekistan

• Dhows:
  Sailing, sail up and down, cooking, repairing boat, captain and crew
  India, oman, Tanzania, Kenia, Comoro Islands