This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Pumee Boontom lives in northern Thailand, but he tunes his television to the Chinese weather forecast. A big storm in ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand - Bean sprout farmer Orapin Waotikon describes life along the Mekong River as “throwing the dice”. At the crack of dawn every day, the 56-year-old woman heads to the river ...

Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...