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 ...

“While the headwaters of the Mekong in China are excessively wet, most of the lower Mekong region is experiencing ...

Beijing [China], February 4 (ANI): China recently ... of incidents including lowering of water level on the Mekong River through dam operations and recalled the 2021 incident, when China reduced ...

“China’s hydropower development in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River aims ... Pacific that upstream dams that the Chinese have created, including in the Mekong region, can have ...

BANGKOK, April 13 (Reuters) – China’s Mekong River dams held back large amounts of water during a damaging drought in downstream countries last year despite China having higher-than-average water ...

The Medog Dam grants China significant upstream control over ... water-sharing framework remains essential. While a Mekong River Commission-style agreement may be ambitious, incremental steps ...

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River. Analyzing Chinese dams in Laos provides insight into the local ...

China has signaled plans for a hydropower project in Tibet along one of the region’s main rivers, fanning speculation of a ...

In April 2004, The New York Times announced that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao “unexpectedly suspended plans for a massive dam system on the Nu (Salween) River in western China that scientists had ...

It’s water that’s been stored behind a dam.” River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand ...