When finished next year, it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their ...

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, Townships along the Mekong ...

“While the headwaters of the Mekong in China are excessively wet, most of the lower Mekong region is experiencing ...

BANGKOK, April 13 (Reuters) – China’s Mekong River dams held back large amounts of water during a ... We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video ...

The Mekong is everybody's river. But when China released water from the dams, the river's level was raised by one metre overnight,' Niwat Roikaew, a leader of 'Love Chiang Khong', a Mekong ...

“This means it’s not the normal Mekong water. It’s water that’s been stored behind a dam.” River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main ...

Laos has completed two dams on the Mekong River, the 1,285-megawatt Xayaburi Dam and the 260-megawatt Don Sahong Dam last year, despite objections by environmental groups.

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River. Analyzing Chinese dams in Laos provides insight into the local ...

The proposed Funan Techo Canal is set to connect the country's coast to the Mekong River via a system of lock gates. In a new report, the World Wildlife Fund claims that dam developments ...