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 ...

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River.

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 ...

BEIJING--China has approved the construction ... in India and Bangladesh. The dam, which will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, could produce 300 billion kilowatt ...

In September last year, Laos announced its decision to proceed with the Don Sahong dam on the Mekong mainstream, bypassing the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC) consultation process. The dam will block ...

Bangladesh has requested detailed technical information from China regarding the impact of the Medog hydropower dam that is being planned by the country on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet. Officials ...

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 ...