Below the Chinese dams, near the border with Myanmar (right), the Lancang is ... In Ban Khok Yai, along the Mekong River, three generations share dinner by candlelight—like 30 percent of ...

Thai authorities are awaiting a response from Myanmar about potential cooperation in tackling toxic contamination affecting the Kok River, a water source for downstream communities in Chiang Mai.The ...

This story appears in the May 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine. I've always believed the best way to know a river is to paddle it, to feel its undercurrents and speed, to take in the ...

River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Its basin is dotted with 190 ...

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 ...

The Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) is awaiting a response from Myanmar regarding potential cooperation in tackling the toxic contamination affecting Chiang Mai's Kok River, a water ...

The trawlers didn’t know it, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as ...

VIENTIANE: Construction of the fifth “friendship bridge” between Laos and Thailand across the Mekong River, linking Borikhamxay ... economic corridor linking Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and ...

funded by the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund (2024), officially commenced on Monday in Bagan, Myanmar, the state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Tuesday. The program, which will run ...

Thai authorities are awaiting a response from Myanmar about potential cooperation in tackling toxic contamination affecting the Kok River, a water source for downstream communities in Chiang Mai.