CHIANG RAI – Mekong River Conservationists have lodged a petition calling for governments of countries along the Mekong River to review upcoming hydro-dam projects. The petition...
BANGKOK – Three reasons are being cited for record low water levels and the drying up of the Mekong River in Northern and Northeastern Thailand. Less...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) has urged the Lao to suspend the trial operations of the Xayaburi hydropower dam due to alarming...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s national water management agency has reported that the Mekong River water levels that have fallen dramatically under impact from dam operations in Laso...
BANGKOK – The Mekong People’s Network and local Mekong River residents have had a heated debate with the Chinese Embassy about China’s utilization and management of...
BANGKOK – A new constructed bicycle pathway that runs along the Mekong riverbank in northeastern Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom Province has been deemed unsafe after part of...
CHIANG RAI – Villagers living near the Mekong River in Chiang Rai Thailand and Laos are finding it difficult to cope with sudden releases of water...
BANGKOK – Pol Lt Col Sompop Onsin, deputy commander of the border patrol police in the northeastern Thailand, said on Thursday that Lao men were arrested...
CHIANG RAI – As night falls on the Mekong River in Northern Thailand, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security and Laos drug gangs now...
BANGKOK – The Government of Thailand is striving to turn Thailand into a transport hub for six countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), following an...
CHIANG RAI – Originating in the Tibetan highlands and running through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the Mekong and its tributaries provide water,...
CHIANG RAI – Dr. An Pich Hatda, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission in an OP-ed reports that people who live in the...
CHIANG RAI – Environmentalists and local villagers who have been fighting for years against the planned blasting of sections of the Mekong River for greater shipping...
CHIANG RAI – Members of the Rak Chiang Khong Conservation Group and other environmentalists still remain uneasy despite Thailand’s Foreign Ministry assurance that the navigation channel...
CHIANG RAI – China has agreed to drop a plan to clear rocky outcrops and islets in the upper reaches of the Mekong River in Chiang...
CHIANG RAI – An Environmental group in Chiang Rai has renewed its campaign against the controversial Pak Beng dam that is due to be built on...
CHIANG RAI -A red-robed monk sat impatiently at the front of the consultation meeting in Chiang Saen, northern Thailand. Once the representatives from China Communications...
CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Prajin Juntong has told a press briefing the six-nation Safe Mekong Operation Project will continue...
CHIANG RAI – Law enforcement agencies from Thailand, China, Myanmar and Laos will once again join together to boost measures against drug trafficking, following the worsening...
CHIANG RAI – As a new year dawns, the waters of the Mekong River remain turbulent with uncertainty. While many take holidays and prepare for...