Mekong River at its lowest in 100 years, threatening food supply. A combination of drought and controversial upstream water politics is setting up Southeast Asia for potential disaster.

Law enforcement departments from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand conduct the "Vision 2024" joint crackdown action exercise against illegal activities in the Mekong River region in Muong Mom ...

A photo of the Mekong River at Luang Prabang, Laos, prior to the construction of the Xayaburi hydropower dam. This area now forms part of the tail of the dam’s reservoir.

SIEM PANG, Cambodia — “I remember seeing a buffalo, its head tied to a floating barrel, drifting down the river,” says Pheng Sisuwath, gesturing to the Sekong River from his stilt house in ...

Nearly 400 species only just discovered in Asia’s Greater Mekong region could soon become extinct due to loss of habitat caused by human activity, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned in a ...

‘Historic’ Funan Techo canal, a 180km project from the Mekong River to the coast, aims to reduce Cambodia’s transport dependence on Vietnam. Advertisement. China-Asean relations.

Mekong migrations: Insights into fish movement in the lower Mekong from a large‐scale acoustic telemetry study. Fisheries Management and Ecology . doi: 10.1111/fme.12806 ...

Despite hopeful signs from the May 2023 Thai general election, the outlook for politics in the Mekong region remains grim. Economically, Mekong countries have also struggled to recover their ...

Tian Fuqiang, a professor of hydraulic engineering at Tsinghua University, said that China only accounts for 13.5% of the water flowing out of the Mekong's estuary, which means China's hydropower ...

Satellite images show that China has quietly begun to operate the 12th dam on the Lancang – as the Mekong River is called in China – since February, five years after construction started on ...

The Mekong River "ghost fish", believed to have been extinct, has been sighted three times in recent years, according to a new report published on Monday. According to the study published in ...