Amid competition between China and the U.S., the question of the river’s fate has been imbued with a strategic undercurrent. In recent years, the fate of Southeast Asia’s great river – the Mekong – ...

SOC TRANG, Vietnam, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Standing on the bank of the Mekong River, Tran Van Cung can see his rice farm wash away before his very eyes. The paddy's edge is crumbling into the delta. Just ...

For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok ...

Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies. Previously, he was executive editor for economics at Bloomberg News. Save The Mekong River is more than the sum of its nearly ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Mekong River has become a new front in U.S.-China rivalry, environmentalists and officials say, with Beijing overtaking Washington in both spending and influence over ...

A recent study by the Stimson Centre reveals that toxic chemicals from unregulated mining sites are contaminating major rivers in Southeast Asia, endangering millions of lives.

The Mekong River has long been a source of food and water for millions, but according to the Mekong River Commission, an estimated 40 percent of fish have disappeared with many attributing the cause ...

At The New York Times, Jane Perlez and Bree Feng revisit the international hunt for drug lord Naw Kham, who was executed in March for the 2011 murders of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong river. For ...

A big spike in water levels has been detected along the Mekong River which could threaten the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people who live hand to mouth off crops planted along the banks of the ...

A Thai Marine Police Patrol Vessel in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, June 20, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Adirach Toumlamoon. On October 5, 2011, thirteen Chinese sailors were found bound, blindfolded, ...