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 ...

However, low-lying areas along the Mekong River which have no protection from ... with water breaching flood barriers and inundating homes and farmland. A resident of Simmano village told the ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand - Bean sprout farmer Orapin Waotikon describes life along the Mekong River as “throwing the dice”. At the crack of dawn every day, the 56-year-old woman heads to the river ...

This phase will urgently take up the issue of water infrastructure that is posing an immediate threat to river dolphin populations. This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin ...

VIENTIANE/BERLIN (dpa): Researchers working in the Mekong region in South-East Asia ... to 3,623 the species discovered along the huge river since 1997. Among the strangest discoveries last ...

In February 2013, local villagers informed staff of WWF and the Cambodian Government’s Forestry Administration that two more chicks of the critically endangered Red-headed Vulture hatched in a nest on ...