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International experts raised serious concerns over China’s proposed “Great Bend Dam” on the Yarlung Tsangpo river—known as ...
When finished next year, it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their ...
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 ...
River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Its basin is dotted with 190 ...
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 ...
Climate change and construction activity have resulted in high pollution in China's rivers like the Mekong (above). An ...
BJP Arunachal MP Tapir Gao claimed that the devastating floods of June 2000 caused by a similar “water bomb” that had washed ...
A journey along the Mekong River aboard AmaDara, from Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City, comes complete with reminders of the ...
The China-backed Techo Funan Canal, which will connect the Mekong River to the country’s coast, has given rise to environmental and security concerns. The proposed Funan Techo Canal is set to ...
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 ...
Effective river water management is the most reliable method of guaranteeing environmental stability and sustainable economic ...