A photo of the Mekong River at Luang Prabang ... and using both national and international arenas to urge dam project proponents’ compliance with human rights frameworks. Most recently ...

“When we put a dam on a river, it literally chops that river in half,” explains Hughes ... biologist and director of the Wonders of the Mekong project, at the release of Mekong’s Forgotten Fisheries.

The efforts of Niwat Roykaew, known commonly as “Khru Ti,” were instrumental in halting a China-led channel deepening project ... the Mekong River. A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor ...

and it has built 11 dams on the upper reaches of the Mekong River inside Chinese territory that have come under scrutiny for allegedly altering the river’s natural flow. The Sanakham project ...

Tourists flock to the Mekong River from across the world, contributing to all four countries’ economies. Now Laos wants to build nine hydropower dams on the river and sell the electricity to ...

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 intergovernmental panel of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) has deferred the final decision on the construction of the Xayaburi dam in Laos to the ministerial level, following concerns raised by ...

The project areas are a last refuge for many threatened and endangered species that have virtually disappeared from the rest of SE Asia, including: Irrawaddy dolphins, Mekong Giant Catfish, Giant ...

A report by the intergovernmental Mekong River Commission said hydropower ... extremely serious questions about dam planning and management". The project is privately run, and she believes the ...

funded by the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund, has been inaugurated here. Under the project, an overflow dam over the Kayang river, along with a fruit tree irrigation system ...