Flagship report by WWF and 25 local, regional and global partners celebrates the diversity of fishes in the Mekong and their importance to people, nature and the health of the river. The Mekong ...

I first began covering the Mekong River in Southeast Asia almost two decades ago, encountering fish so immense they seemed almost mythical: giant freshwater stingrays weighing as much as a grand piano ...

A new study has found that the Mekong River’s largest freshwater fish are shrinking in size, with critically endangered species like the giant catfish and giant barb now averaging less than half their ...

Two Mekong giant catfish called "trey riech" (for royal fish) in Khmer, a critically endangered species, were released in a ceremony at the confluence of Cambodia’s Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. The ...

The iconic Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, and one of the hardest to study. New scientific techniques are beginning to unlock its secrets. The ...

A dam being built in Laos near the border with Cambodia imperils downstream communities and the Mekong ecosystem as a whole, experts and affected community members say. The Sekong A dam will close off ...

Houayxay, Laos – Fishing went well today for Khon, a Laotian fisherman, who lives in a floating house built from plastic drums, scrap metal and wood on the Mekong River. “I caught two catfish,” the 52 ...

It's 9 a.m. and the Mekong River at this hour is still peaceful: just a few fishermen casting nets into a large pool below the area called Si Phan Don, or "4,000 islands." It's a popular tourist ...

This story was originally published by New Security Beat on July 22, 2025. The Mekong River’s seasonal floods nurture the world’s most productive inland fishery and irrigate rice paddies that feed ...

Oceanography, Vol. 30, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Sedimentary Processes Building a Tropical Delta Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The Mekong System (SEPTEMBER 2017), pp. 22-33 (12 pages) ABSTRACT.

Chinese tourists account for more visitors to Thailand — and much of Southeast Asia — than from any other country. The Thai village of Sob Ruak, at the heart of the Golden Triangle region where ...