People travel along the Mekong River by boat, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: EPA
03 January 2023
Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Monday ordered the creation of conservation zones on the...
 This handout photo taken on May 5, 2022 and released on May 10 by the US-funded Wonders of the Mekong project shows a female giant freshwater stingray -- weighing 400 pounds (181 kg) and measuring 13 feet (3.96 metres) in length -- that was caught and released in the Mekong River in Cambodia's Stung Treng province. Photo: AFP
12 May 2022
Cambodian fishermen on the Mekong River got a shock when they inadvertently hooked an...
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11 May 2022
An endangered giant freshwater stingray inadvertently hooked by Cambodian fishermen is...
Beijing has long wanted to blast 97 kilometres (60 miles) of rocks and dredge the riverbed in northern Thailand to open up a passage for massive cargo ships (AFP / Lillian SUWANRUMPHA)
06 February 2020
Thailand has spiked Chinese-led plans to open up a key stretch of the Mekong river, in a...
This photo taken on September 20, 2019 shows a giant Buddha on the Thai side of the Golden Triangle in Chiang Rai province, with Myanmar in the background and Laos on the right. Ninety-seven kilometres of rocks in Thai waters stand between Beijing and dominance over the Mekong, a mighty river that feeds millions as it threads south from the Tibetan plateau through five countries before emptying into the South China Sea. Photo: Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP
12 January 2020
Ninety-seven kilometres of rocks in Thai waters stand between Beijing and dominance over...
Experts say the Mekong river is at a "crisis point". Photo: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP
01 November 2019
The once-mighty Mekong river has been reduced to a thin, grubby neck of water in...
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
02 August 2019
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
12 June 2019
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
19 December 2018
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
04 December 2018
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
26 November 2018
The 76th joint patrol on the Mekong River jointly conducted by China, Laos, Myanmar and...