International experts raised serious concerns over China’s proposed “Great Bend Dam” on the Yarlung Tsangpo river—known as ...

Christopher St. Cavish talks China's 'salt capital', David Swanson leads us down a river cruise and Bibek Bhandari remembers 2000s-era Beijing I was scrolling through Instagram, as one does, when a ...

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Pumee Boontom lives in northern Thailand, but he tunes his television to the Chinese weather forecast. A big storm in ...

BJP Arunachal MP Tapir Gao claimed that the devastating floods of June 2000 caused by a similar “water bomb” that had washed ...

A view of the Mekong River bordering Thailand and Laos is seen from the Thai side in Nong Khai, Thailand, on Oct 29, 2019. [Photo/Agencies] China and five other countries in the Lancang-Mekong ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand - Bean sprout farmer Orapin Waotikon describes life along the Mekong River as “throwing the dice”. At the crack of dawn every day, the 56-year-old woman heads to the river ...

Climate change and construction activity have resulted in high pollution in China's rivers like the Mekong (above). An ...

A journey along the Mekong River aboard AmaDara, from Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City, comes complete with reminders of the ...

PHNOM PENH, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Another newborn Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin has been sighted, raising the number of newborn dolphin calves in Cambodia to six so far this year, the Ministry of Agriculture ...

Colourful rectangular wooden boats carrying tourists chug along at a leisurely pace across the Mekong River. The atmosphere is idyllic, disturbed only by the monotonous throbbing of the boats ...

While most tourists visiting Laos head to the ancient royal city of Luang Prabang, the capital Vientiane with its temples, ...