The Mekong River, one of the world's longest waterways, has a long and turbulent history. It begins its 3,000-mile journey high on the Tibetan... At Mekong's Source In China, Past And Present Collide ...

For the first time in my life, I hear nothing at all. Three of us – my guide, the driver (who happens to be a monk) and I – sit on a blanket stretched on a field 12,000 feet above sea level. A summer ...

Hydropower dams planned for the lower mainstem of the Mekong River could decimate fish populations and with them the primary source of protein for 60 million people. The impact of the dams would ...

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