Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies. Previously, he was executive editor for economics at Bloomberg News. Save The Mekong River is more than the sum of its nearly ...

Stretching over 4,000 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, the Mekong River supports more than 60 ...

The mighty Mekong River, which has sustained civilizations for thousands of years, now faces an unprecedented crisis that ...

This story was originally published by New Security Beat on July 17, 2025. For decades, China has been the dominant force in hydropower development across the Mekong subregion, financing, and ...

A new study has found that the Mekong River’s largest freshwater fish are shrinking in size, with critically endangered species like the giant catfish and giant barb now averaging less than half their ...

I first began covering the Mekong River in Southeast Asia almost two decades ago, encountering fish so immense they seemed almost mythical: giant freshwater stingrays weighing as much as a grand piano ...

Fisherman catch fish in the Mekong River near a construction site for the Luang Prabang Dam, in Luang Prabang, Laos, Jan. 28, 2024 (AP photo by Sakchai Lalit). Laos’ government has longstanding plans ...