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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

such as deep-incised river gorges, luxuriant forests, towering snow-clad mountains, glaciers, and alpine karst, reddish sandstone landforms (Danxia）, lakes and meadows over vast vistas. The 1.7 ...

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 ...

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 iconic Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, and one of the hardest to study. Despite being the size of a small car – weighing in at nearly 300 ...