The pulse of Southeast Asia beats through the mighty Mekong River. For thousands of years, this massive waterway has ...

CHIANG KHONG, Thailand – Dismissing its neighbors' pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia's poorest people. The ...

From February to April each year, Kam Thon spends most of her days knee-deep in the waters of the Mekong River by her village ...

A fishermen near the Khone Phapheng Falls (Khone Falls) along the Mekong River in Laos. In my previous post, I summarized many of the superlatives of fish and fisheries from the Mekong River in ...

Srey Pheak (with headlamp) leads a twilight fishing patrol on the Mekong near his village Samphin. The fishing patrol enforces fishery regulations in Samphin’s registered fishing lot. Photo: Patrick ...

Provinces across the Mekong Delta are intensifying coordinated measures to curb illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as part of nationwide efforts to have the European Commission (E.C.) ...

Heavy rains and China’s decision to release more water from upstream dams have offered a glimmer of good news for fishing and farming families who have suffered from poor catches and harvests amid a ...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic ...

The Governments of Lao PDR and Thailand have declared an early end to the 2009 Mekong giant catfish fishing season in an effort to protect the critically endangered species. The Governments of Lao PDR ...

CHIANG KHONG, Thailand (AP) — Dismissing its neighbors’ pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia’s poorest people.