The joint patrol and law enforcement action carried out by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand in the Mekong River region to ...
Since 2017, the law enforcement departments from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand have initiated the "Guardian" series of ...
Six months of the year, monsoons burst the banks turning dustbowls into swamps. A lacework of waterways covers the lowlands ...
They are now only found in South-East Asia’s Mekong River but in the past inhabited the length of the 4,900km-long stream, all the way from its outlet in Vietnam to its northern reaches in China ...
As Syrian rebels approached Damascus last weekend, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s main Arab ally, as a minor episode in a planet-wide ...
They now are only found in Southeast Asia’s Mekong River but in the past inhabited the length of the 4,900-kilometer (3,044 mile)-long river, all the way from its outlet in Vietnam to its ...
Suddenly the river traffic of Vietnam is gone, as are all the tributaries splaying out into the delta: now the Mekong is a single, sluggish, and very much empty mass of water, its banks similarly ...
Challenges for the delta The delta faces ongoing challenges, including reduced water flow from upstream sections of the Mekong River, rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion, and erosion. These issues ...