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 ...

The trawlers didn’t know it, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as ...

FILE PHOTO: Starving the Mekong: Lives are remade as dams built by China upstream deprive Mekong River Delta of precious sediment ...

Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native river, Southeast Asia’s Mekong, where its numbers have ...

Phnom Penh has secured China nod for controversial Mekong canal Mekong River authority says feasibility needs to be assessed China commits less than Cambodia had announced Beijing links support to ...

Sue Perkins embarks on a life-changing, 3,000-mile journey up the Mekong, South East Asia's greatest river, exploring lives and landscapes on the point of dramatic change.

The Mekong River, fed by a series of tributaries, flows some 4,900 kilometres (3,045 miles) from its source in the Tibetan plateau through China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to the sea.

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 ...

FILE - A view from a water gate to the Funan Techo Canal connecting from Mekong River at Prek Takeo village, eastern Phnom Penh Cambodia, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File ...

Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ... and the U.S., the question of the river's fate has been imbued with a strategic ...

“Construction minister Samal stated that it will transform Cambodia into a true golden land. We already know that the Tonle Sap and Mekong River are immense treasures, which we consider uncut diamonds ...