became the first to dam the main stem of the river. ThailandThe hunger for electricity in Thailand is driving dam construction on the lower Mekong in Laos and Cambodia. Bangkok’s CentralWorld ...

Landlocked Laos is comprised of thickly forested and mountainous terrain. The Mekong River forms a large part of the country's western border with Thailand. Most children in Laos live in rural areas, ...

Up and down the Mekong ... River to uncover the secrets of Lao cuisine. “The fish that fight against the current are more tasty,” replies chef Joy Ngeuamboupha, who focuses on celebrating Laos ...

Indeed, good fortune followed our entire three-night cruise on this 26-passenger vessel, the largest and most luxurious on the Laos stretch of the Mekong River, Southeast Asia's longest.

Sun glints on the milk-tea-coloured river as fishermen putt past on motorised ... and bikes are waiting under a stand of gum trees. Kids in sailor uniforms wave excitedly as they cycle the red ...

Environment and water resource ministers from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam meeting in Siem Reap next week hold the fate of the Mekong river in their hands as they look set to reach a decision ...

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 ...

In the first ever trial of eDNA sampling on the Mekong River, WWF partnered with France-based laboratory SPYGEN to sample and analyse water from the river from Tonle Sap Lake in central Cambodia, ...