This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic ... Dam construction on the lower Mekong is overseen, nominally, by the Mekong River Commission (MRC). Funded by international ...

More than 40 people went on trial in Vietnam on Monday over illegal sand mining in the Mekong Delta, state media said, as ...

A document submitted in August 2023 to the Mekong River Commission - an organisation formed for cooperation on issues regarding the Mekong - does not mention using water from the canal for ...

This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The year is 2121. Stilted houses in Phnom Penh sit above urban farms fed by the Mekong River. Athens is smog free ...

Mekong's Forgotten Fishes, a new report published by WWF and Global Water Center, in tandem with 24 other local, regional and global Mekong-based organizations, details the extraordinary variety of ...

They transport sediment, shape landscapes and sustain wildlife. But our team's research on the Lower Mekong river reveals that sand mining is depleting sediment stocks at an alarming pace ...

Heritage Line The slow, tranquil sojourn along the lower Mekong River, cruising through rural Cambodia and Vietnam’s backwaters, felt more like being on a 19th-century yacht than a modern cruise ...

In spite of many political obstacles, four southeast Asian nations helped by 14 others under UN auspices are engaged in thorough advance planning for a historic experiment in river development ...

Nguyen Thanh Binh, the former chairman of the people's committee in An Giang province in the Mekong river delta, is accused ...