Mekong River

Experts say the Mekong river is at a "crisis point". Photo: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP
News
01 November 2019
Mekong levels at lowest on record as drought and dams strangle river
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (C) attends the Lower Mekong Initiative Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the 52nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok on August 1, 2019. Photo: AFP
News
02 August 2019
US warns dams give China ‘control’ of Mekong river
China is taking control of the flow of Southeast Asia's most important river through a...
This photo taken May 23, 2019 shows Thai navy personnel patrolling along the Mekong river bordering Thailand and Laos in Tha Utain, Nakhon Phanom province. Photo: Aidan Jones/AFP
News
12 June 2019
Drones, big money and cheap drugs: the Laos route...
As dusk falls along the Mekong River, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security...
People wait beside the Mekong River (or Lancang River within China) on the Chinese side as a boat crosses from Myanmar in Guanlei, in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture which borders Myanmar and Laos in China's southwest Yunnan province. Photo: AFP
Business
19 December 2018
Chinese, Thai companies join hands to develop...
Chinese and Thai companies signed three documents on Monday at northern Thailand's Chiang...
Cambodian fishermen go to work on their boat on the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: EPA
Development
04 December 2018
Myanmar parliament approves Thai loan for Mekong...
Myanmar's Union Parliament has approved borrowing a loan from the Neighboring Countries...
(File) Thai police patrol ship (L) guards a Chinese cargo ship (R) arriving to Chiang Saen port, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, 11 December 2011. Photo: EPA
News
26 November 2018
76th joint patrol on Mekong River completed
The 76th joint patrol on the Mekong River jointly conducted by China, Laos, Myanmar and...

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