Beijing’s formidable influence has traction because no country or authority officially controls the historic waterway.

Laos and Thailand have put the final touches to their friendship bridge No.5, marking a significant move in transport ...

H World Asia Pacific president Zhu Xiaogang said: "This signing of four hotels in Laos is an important step for H World in ...

In December 2011, the China-Laos-Myanmar-Thailand joint patrol and law enforcement ... Tan has written essays about marine skills, drawn up maps to "fill in the blanks on the Mekong", compiled an ...

Lao PDR has been praised as Southeast Asia’s “hidden gem” poised for a tourism boom.

Both sides pledged to work closely within multilateral frameworks such as ASEAN, the United Nations, and Mekong cooperation ... a defence cooperation protocol for 2025-2029. Vietnam and Laos map out ...

“We’re trying to build a road map for where these fish are ... than two decades of fisheries experience in Laos, told Mongabay that the Mekong is “the number one most important natural ...

The trials may have further disrupted the Mekong River’s flow. One of the poorest countries in the region, Laos already has close to 50 hydroplants operating on various Mekong tributaries and ...

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Mekong Kingdoms As my fellow cruisers and I stepped aboard the top deck of the gleaming new Boheme riverboat moored near Luang Prabang, Laos, we were welcomed with a ...

Map highlighting theLao-China Railway in Laos.. The Lao-China Railway ... stayed in old French colonial villas and strolled by the Mekong River at night, where an amusement park, night market ...

This Agreement had established the MRC, an intergovernmental organisation consisting of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand ... connection of the canal to the Mekong mainstream, particularly its first section ...