This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Pumee Boontom lives in northern Thailand, but he tunes his television to the Chinese weather forecast. A big storm in ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Midway through its epic 5,000-kilometer journey from the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, the Mekong River forms the border between Laos and northeast Thailand.

Cambodia should share a feasibility study on the impact of a planned China-backed canal that would divert water from the rice ...

The Mekong, the longest river in Southeast Asia, runs more than 4,900 kilometers (3,000 miles) from its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, flowing through China, Myanmar ...

Nguyễn Văn Quại, 63, walked slowly on the muddy dirt path in his yard, his hands clasped behind his back. He stopped beside a ...

PREK TAKEO: Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday (Aug 5) launched a controversial US$1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link from the Mekong River to the sea. Manet ...

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.