"...Thai protesters...protesters…said [China's plan to blast...the Mekong River for bigger cargo ships]...will destroy fish breeding grounds, disrupt migrating birds and cause increased water flow that will erode riverside farmland...Second Harbour Consultants, a subsidiary of state-owned...China Communications Construction Corp (CCCC)…said it was surveying the Mekong for a report that China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand would use to decide whether blasting should go ahead…"