not Southeast Asia, became the first to dam the main stem of the river. ThailandThe hunger for electricity in Thailand is driving dam construction on the lower Mekong in Laos and Cambodia.

Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower ... Both within and between nations, Southeast Asia's largest river gives rise to competing ...

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 ...

Electronic tagging has revealed crucial Mekong fish corridors at risk of being severed by upcoming dam projects.