Project planned for an ecologically fragile area in Tibet near contested border with India, raising environmental, security ...

Cambodia PM launches project linking Mekong river to sea via canal Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday launched a controversial $1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link ...

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 ...

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 ...

PREK TAKEO, Cambodia--The Mekong River is a lifeline for millions in the six countries it traverses on its way from its headwaters to the sea, sustaining the world’s largest inland fishery and ...

The pond’s flawless surface shatters as dozens of snakehead fish leap up to claim their lunch. “I taught them how to do that,” Le Trung Tin says proudly, tossing another handful of fish feed.

The 3S rivers — Sekong, Sesan, and Srepok — are vital to the economic and environmental well-being of the entire Mekong basin. Just like the mainstem Mekong, they are under assault from a litany of ...