In late 2012, after years of denials, Laotian officials admitted that construction of the Thai-financed Xayaburi dam, on a remote stretch of the Mekong in northern Laos, was under way. New dams ...
They now are only found in south-east Asia’s Mekong river but in the past inhabited the length of the 3,044 mile-long river, all the way from its outlet in Vietnam to its northern reaches in ...
The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 ...
SINGAPORE: The ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) issued a "Level 1" alert on Thursday (Jan 2), warning of hotspots and haze in northern ... most parts of the Mekong sub-region as ...
Desert sand is too smooth to bind to make concrete, so sand is taken from river beds such as the Mekong A crisis is engulfing the Mekong River, its banks are collapsing and half a million people ...
The Mekong River in Thailand’s northern Chiang Khong district. ST VIDEO: LIM YAOHUI Cambodia, trying to reduce its dependence on Vietnamese ports, plans to build a 180km navigation canal to link ...
Law enforcement departments from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand conduct the "Vision 2024" joint crackdown action exercise against illegal activities in the Mekong River region in Muong Mom ...
While the centre’s primary focus is on northern Thailand, it aims to expand its reach to the Greater Mekong Subregion in the future, she added.