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 ...

The Mekong Dam Monitor Weekly recorded significant releases from China’s large dams had pushed the river to higher-than-normal levels by almost two meters between Feb. 24 to March 2. “Sustained large ...

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 ...

China recently announced plans to build ... of incidents including lowering of water level on the Mekong River through dam operations and recalled the 2021 incident, when China reduced the water ...

China has funded numerous hydropower projects inside Laos, and it has built 11 dams on the upper reaches of the Mekong River inside Chinese territory that have come under scrutiny for allegedly ...

China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

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 ...

India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang river to counter a huge Chinese ... a "comprehensive water-sharing agreement between China and India", said Rouhin Deb in The Indian Express ...

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, Townships along the Mekong ...