China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand carried out their 160th joint patrol and law enforcement operation along the Mekong River from December 26-29, involving about approximately 170 personnel and six ...

The mainstream Mekong at the Golden Triangle has turned a murky yellow-orange. MRC and other tests confirmed arsenic contamination at several points between Chiang Khong and Chiang Saen. Credit: Earth ...

For the Mekong region, 2025 brought political, economic and environmental pressures, leaving a daunting agenda for future leaders amid complex political tensions at home and abroad.

The Mekong River faces growing threats from dam construction, sand mining, climate change and the decline of international aid. Citizen science — grassroots data collection and local knowledge ...

April 07, 2025 – In 2015, the first Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held. This year, Lancang-Mekong Cooperation has entered its tenth year. As the first regional cooperation ...

Water tests from the Kok and Sai rivers near Thailand’s border with Myanmar have revealed elevated arsenic levels, leading Thai officials to warn citizens to avoid contact with river water. The ...

Paul Greening works as a political analyst and a specialist consultant covering the conflict in Myanmar from his base in Mae Sot on the Thai border and is a regular guest with Beyond the Mekong, ...

Unregulated activity led by Chinese enterprises in conflict-ravaged Myanmar is creating an environmental calamity in neighboring Thailand. Unregulated activity led by Chinese enterprises in ...

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish ...

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end up in China. By Hannah Beech In minute quantities, the minerals known as ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

Slip into the slow pace of life in Laos, where a new Mekong cruise follows the river’s course past the pagoda-studded world heritage city of Luang Prabang, into a less-explored stretch of the waterway ...