As always with Communist actions, Ho’s offensive had deeper, political purposes. Theory No. 1: Ho is now trying to win the war in a series of offensives, of which the Mekong drive is the first.

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught ...

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.

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 ...

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish ...

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 ...

Mekong River communities rely on it for food — new dams threaten resources Dams and climate change are among the threats facing Southeast Asia's famed Mekong River. Cambodia is scrapping plans ...

Two Mekong giant catfish called "trey riech" (for royal fish) in Khmer, a critically endangered species, were released in a ceremony at the confluence of Cambodia’s Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. The ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is the only inter-governmental organisation that works directly with the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam to jointly manage the shared ...