Rain and Rainbows: Taiwan Celebrates Pride as Hong Kong’s LGBTQ Rights Stall In the introduction to his new book, Brian Eyler cautions that “the reader should not get the impression from the book’s ...

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

Some rivers are so still, so complacent, so dead that they leave the heart indifferent. Not the Mekong, the longest river in Southeast Asia. Fed by the melting snow and mountain streams of the Tibetan ...

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

The Mekong River is one of the world’s most evocative waterways, a crucial channel that begins in China and runs through five other countries: Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Nations ...

Flagship report by WWF and 25 local, regional and global partners celebrates the diversity of fishes in the Mekong and their importance to people, nature and the health of the river. The Mekong ...

The lower Mekong River is entering its fourth year of drought with poor rainfall, climate change, and hydropower dams producing the worst conditions along Southeast Asia’s largest waterway in more ...

Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people.

The Mekong River "ghost fish", believed to have been extinct, has been sighted three times in recent years, according to a new report published on Monday. According to the study published in ...

The “Mekong ghost” fish is a ghost no more. Like the legendary Rip Van Winkle, who wandered into the woods and disappeared for 20 years, the giant salmon carp (Aaptosyax grypus) of Southeast Asia’s ...

CHIANG KHONG, Thailand — For Pianporn Deetes, the Mekong is more than a river. “This is not just liquid, but this is the entire life-supporting system,” Deetes, a local activist, said recently on a ...