As morning mist lifted over the Mekong River, a group of children, aged five to 17, gathered along its banks not just to ...

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

Unregulated activity led by Chinese enterprises in conflict-ravaged Myanmar is creating an environmental calamity in ...

In the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos, the fun of casinos is being replaced by the worry of criminals.

A 661-pound stingray caught in the Mekong was tagged and tracked. The data is giving scientists new insight into a fragile ecosystem. By Rachel Nuwer Researchers may have solved a big mystery ...

The Mekong giant catfish, one of the largest species in the river, is also seldom spotted. Freshwater megafauna—animals that can grow to over 200 lbs—have declined by 97 percent in Asia since ...

Two Mekong giant catfish called "trey riech" (for royal fish) in Khmer, a critically endangered species, were released in a ceremony at the confluence of Cambodia’s Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. The ...

According to him, the Mekong’s health was not good. Checking the level of our tea cups and pouring more when necessary, Vu went on to explain the series of misfortunes that had drastically ...

In their new multi-disciplinary performance piece Mekong: SOUL, Emmy Award-winning musician Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ and composer Jonathan Berger tell three powerful and multi-sensory stories about life on ...

Changes in Mekong's water levels A U.S.-funded study by Eyes on Earth found a reduction in expected natural flow of the Mekong River since 2012, when one of the largest Chinese dams went on line.

Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world's biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 300kg (661 lb) and took around a dozen ...