This video documents a two-day river journey along the Mekong River from Huay Xai to Luang Prabang. The cruise passes through ...

Nearly one dozen dams are planned for the Mekong River. The Mekong River begins at the Tibetan Plateau in China and stretches through Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, before ending at ...

A severe drought exacerbated by China's Mekong River dams withholding water upstream is expected to affect economic activities of southeastern countries downstream ...

New research shows that China — where the Mekong River springs from the Tibetan Plateau before flowing past many major dams — appears to have directly caused the record low levels of water in ...

More on: China Asia Photo Courtesy of Reuters/Chaiwat SubprasomWhen I first started studying the Mekong River’s water levels more than a decade ago, the river still r… ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) – China has notified downstream neighbours it is holding back the Mekong River flow at a hydropower dam on the waterway’s upper reaches for 20 days, as part of a new data ...

On a 3,000-mile journey from the river’s source on the Tibetan plateau to its mouth at the South China Sea, NPR’s Michael Sullivan and photographer Christopher Brown examine the turbulent ...

A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns ...

The Mekong River, which originates from the Tanggula Mountain Range on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China and runs 4880 kilometers southward through six countries, namely, China, Myanmar, Laos ...