I just received an email from Pandaw, my favorite Aasin river cruise company, letting me know that they had once again improved their Mekong River cruise sailings. They were now offering a ...

The Mekong River's giant salmon carp is so elusive that scientists call it the "Mekong ghost." With only 30 recorded sightings since 1991 and none since 2005, many assumed the Cambodian behemoth ...

The Mekong Kingdoms' Boheme on the Mekong River. The ship made its debut in December. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Mekong Kingdoms As my fellow cruisers and I stepped aboard the top deck of the ...

Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native river, Southeast Asia’s Mekong, where its numbers have ...

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 ...

This phase will urgently take up the issue of water infrastructure that is posing an immediate threat to river dolphin populations. This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin ...

The iconic Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, and one of the hardest to study. Despite being the size of a small car – weighing in at nearly 300 ...