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.

Tonle Sap River, Cambodia — Some of the world’s greatest animal migrations take place on land, like the wildebeests traversing the East African plains and caribou crossing the Alaskan tundra ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, photo, fishing boats are moored in Mekong River, which has turned blue instead of its usual muddy color, in Nakhon Phanom province, northeastern Thailand.

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 ...

Elaborate lacquered wooden covers for palm-leaf manuscripts . Cherished and revered for generations as a key Buddhist text originating in the central Mekong River Basin (particularly in northeastern ...

What threats does the Mekong River face? Unfortunately, the diversity and prosperity of the river is at risk. Unsustainable construction, fishing and resource extraction are pushing the Mekong to the ...