Mekong

No member is prepared to cede its national sovereignty, even on an issue as patently transnational as the Mekong.

Until Cambodia's post-civil war reconstruction began a few years ago, the Mekong also provided the only form of transport north.

It is unclear how much of the Mekong's drop is due to Chinese dam building.

"The Mekong River is unique, both in terms of diversity of the fish and the volume of fish that travel up and down it, " Chapman explained.

This temple-rich town sits encircled by mountains, at the point where the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers meet.

Less than one-sixth of the total Mekong catchment is in China, but that upstream flow is crucial to neighbours during the dry season.

But that would be a good thing, Zhou insists: It would "facilitate irrigation and navigation" on the Mekong.

A young man rides a motorized scooter past geese and donkeys that roam the through way of a rural village in Laos's Mekong River valley.

It is still too early to say whether Barack Obama's administration will pursue wholeheartedly its newfound interests in the Mekong.

Sensitivities over the Mekong's flows have led to talks between China and Thailand on how the dams may affect the water levels.

Bewitched, we paddled down the Mekong and through sunken forests before being picked up a few miles down river.

The Mekong "will not survive" without good management, he said.

China already has contentious relations with its neighbors over many transboundary water resources, especially the Mekong River.

A couple of hours upriver are two more unusual temples, hidden in caves carved out of the cliffs by the Mekong millennia ago.

Through such an approach we can all reap the benefits of sustainable water resources development in the Mekong River Basin, " he said. "

The Mekong Basin cooperation is one of the most closely-watched sub-regional economic cooperation programs in the Asia-Pacific.

But Hirsch points out that the MRC has no power to force Laos to abandon its plans for the Xayabouri and other Mekong dams.

And Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program (GMS) is a good case of "butterfly effect" in geography economics.

He asked me to join him on the Mekong.

In terms of biodiversity, the Mekong River is second only to the Amazon among the world's great rivers.

One example of the losses would be as a result of changing flow patterns in the Mekong river.

In March China broke its silence over dams, denying that it was responsible for reducing the Mekong's flow reaching downstream neighbours.

Addressing climate change in the lower Mekong will be a priority of U. S. involvement in Southeast Asia, Clinton said at the ASEAN meeting.

From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan mountain.

Fight the rapids as you kayak and raft down the vast Mekong River.

Last week, it announced that it would join its southeastern neighbors in combating pirates on the lower Mekong River.

The Mekong River passes through parts of Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam before emptying into the South China Sea.

It would be dangerous to equate path dependency with fatalism over Mekong mainstream dams.

The flows of fertile sediment that have for centuries sustained farmers along the Mekong's banks will diminish.

He was about to embark on a 10-day reporting trip down the Mekong River through southwestern China and into Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

We have better surveillance that picked up the earliest signs of parasite resistance to artesunate in the Mekong Region.

It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong river from where it begins to where it ends.

Q: Would you please update on the incident of two cargo ships being attacked in the waters of the Mekong River in Thailand?

It has begun to "consult" , after a fashion, the lower riparian states affected when it dams its rivers, such as the Mekong and the Salween.

The Mekong also has a very large private sector and a lot of the market for these drugs is unregulated.

We then headed to Kampong Cham with its impressive Mekong-spanning bridge; the river here is magnificent, brooding, massive.

In northern Thailand, the wide Mekong River is known as the Mother River.

Cambodia, the land of the Mekong River and the Khmer people, has seen its fair share of violence and tragedy.

My sister and I along the Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends.

The head of the Mekong River Commission has defended the organisation's role in the region, IPS reported on Sunday.

The Lower Mekong Initiative countries also established a web-based "Virtual Secretariat" to enhance coordination and planning.

Cambodia and Vietnam are concerned the dam, one of 11 planned for the Mekong, could affect fish stocks and rice production.

"China has its own Monroe Doctrine in the region, and this is the Pancho Villa case of the Mekong, " Mr. Chambers said.

So far, it is unclear who killed the 13 sailors, whose bodies were recovered from sections of the Mekong in Thailand and Laos.

of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.

A: Why is the Mekong area known as "the cradle of drug resistance" ?

The hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta .

The report suggested the Australian government donate A$50 million each year for the next 10 years to countries in the Mekong region.

Lancang-Mekong River is an international river, it connects the western region of China and the downstream countries together.

Some environmental groups contend that the Mekong flow regime has been altered by dredging and dam construction, suppressing fish catches.

Wen and Abhisit witnessed the signing of an agreement on financing for the Mekong River Bridge.

Laotian family rests in the shade of their stilted, thatched roof hut in the fertile lowlands of the Mekong River valley.

For now, the Namtha's coffee-colored waters flow as they always have toward the Mekong, with locals swimming and fishing in them.

China, which borders northern Laos, already operates four dams on the upper reaches of the Mekong River.

We have engaged in an enhanced relationship the Lower Mekong countries.

The grant seeks to strengthen disease surveillance systems in the Mekong Basin, stretching from Vietnam and Burma to southwestern China.

The first victim of an ecological crisis could be the Mekong giant catfish, which has been on the ropes for years.

Q: Could you update us on the latest developments of the incident of Chinese crewmen being killed in the attack on the Mekong River?

Q: Please brief us on the latest developments of the attack against the two cargo ships on October 5 on the Mekong River in Thailand.

Nga Bay, in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. This community lies near the intersection of seven rivers.

Glide along the Mekong River on a private cruise, stopping to visit local villages.

Mr Guan said Bangkok and Beijing should turn the tragedy into an opportunity to improve security for commercial vessels plying the Mekong.

In northern Thailand, the wide Mekong River is known as Mother River.

The program helps protect biodiversity and sustain communities and businesses in the sensitive Mekong River basin.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao used the occasion to deny once again that his country was responsible for shrinking the Mekong.

Many Thais remain particularly suspicious of Chinese plans for the Mekong, called Lancang in Chinese.

Forget the South China Sea. If America really cares about strengthening its presence in Asia, it'll focus on the Mekong River instead.

The Greater Mekong region covers Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the southern Chinese province of Yunnan.

Jeremy Bird heads the Mekong River Commission, made up of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The Mekong, he says, has always been volatile.

The Thai leader added that Thailand is willing to work with China and other countries to enhance security on the Mekong River.

The Thai media has helped stir up emotions; one editorial in the Bangkok Post last month was headlined "China's dams killing Mekong. "

The report documents in detail the emergence of artemisinin resistance in the Mekong region and initial responses.

Many provinces in the Mekong Delta have recognized the problems spawned by the race to develop industry.

Now, the food security of the Lower Mekong Basin hangs in the balance, writes Milton Osborne .

Himalayan glaciers also feed into major Asian river systems including the Ganges, Indus, Mekong and Yangtze.

In the Mekong River Delta in northeast Cambodia, a ST-EP project brings visitors to view the endangered freshwater dolphin.

New roads bind neighbours along the Mekong River. Central Asia is also seeing a flurry of road-building.

Gazetteer Asia: mainstream of the Mekong in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia and the lower course of some tributaries .

The Mekong River Commission, like ASEAN itself, is about consultation, process and consensus.

Biggest delta: Ganges river - shovels the Mapp Tela river delta, next Yangtze River delta, Mekong River delta.

In the Lower Mekong Region countries, per capita GAP has more than tripled in the last 20 years.

The Greater Mekong region includes China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

And the fishermen and farmers along the river bank have been suffering from the change of the ecosystem of the Mekong River very much.

A ship travels along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in a January 2011 photo.

I am happy to see so many familiar faces that appeared in the 3rd APC Mekong Sub-Regional Meeting held last August in Beijing.

CLIMATE change threatens the Mekong river, continental South-East Asia's lifeblood, at both source and mouth.

Environmentalists say dams have already damaged the Mekong River's headwaters within China's borders.

The incident prompted the four countries through which the upper Mekong flows to agree to police the river jointly.

Resistance to artemisinins was confirmed in 2009 in the Greater Mekong subregion, the traditional epicentre for drug-resistant malaria.

At present, the Greater Mekong sub-regional economic and legal cooperation mechanism has been basically formed.

Yunnan Province has suspended the shipping of Chinese passenger and cargo vessels on the Mekong River.

Lao officials say the proposed Mekong dams would cut poverty and bolster their land-locked country's economy.

The provenance of Southern shelf and slope should include the Mekong River and Kalimantan Islands.

Thai navy officers display Bengal tigers, leopards, and pangolins seized on the Mekong River near the Thailand-Laos border on Jan.

Charles Delacollette is coordinator of the Mekong Malaria Programme in Bangkok, Thailand.

Since 2000 five to ten fish have been caught by accident each year throughout the Mekong area.

More multinational companies headquartered in the US or Japan are looking to invest in the Mekong region.

For months here in Xishuangbanna, a glassy Mekong had merely sauntered towards the border with Laos.

Mekong river nature reserve is the catchment area of international famous mekong river.

There are nearly a dozen plans to dam the lower Mekong, and Chinese state construction companies want to be involved.

Vietnamese officials are publicly opposing a plan by neighboring Laos to build a hydropower dam on the Mekong River.

The Mekong River provides fertile, irrigated fields for rice production.

Vietnamese officials are criticizing the Lao government's controversial plan to build a dam the Mekong River.

At dusk, makeshift stalls in the market offered spicy raw papaya salad and fried Mekong River catfish.

Premier Wen Jiabao is in Laos attending the third Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) summit which ends today.

Meanwhile, several new discoveries in South-East Asia's Mekong river are also causing a stir.

Its damming of the Mekong has sparked anger downstream in Indochina.

China's leaders have explained the Chinese government supports the Greater Mekong Subregion economic cooperation clear position.

The military condition deteriorated, and by 1963 South Vietnam had lost the fertile Mekong Delta to the Vietcong.

In 1967, US Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse Five (V), an offensive in the Mekong River delta.

Other great rivers are the Congo in Africa and the Mekong in southeast Asia.

Julian Wright manages a guest house on the Mekong River's banks at Khon Kaen in northern Thailand.

Others, however, point out that decreased sediment loads will likely lead to erosion of downstream riverbanks and the Mekong Delta.

The Chinese deny the charge and say that they released dammed water during this dry season to raise the Mekong's level.

The initiative has been expanded to five countries in the Mekong subregion of East Asia and eight in the Caribbean.

The 14-year-old and her family had traveled by plane from Canton, Ohio, to Ho Chi Minh City and then by bus deep into the Mekong Delta.

Song also said that the extremely dry weather in some areas is the root cause of the declining water levels in the Mekong.

Recently a Bangkok Post editorial accused China of "Killing the Mekong" .

Four of the world's 10 biggest freshwater fish migrate up the Mekong to spawn.

Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

But in the last century the Mekong giant catfish population has declined by 95 to 99 percent, scientists say.

The ministers of China's three Mekong neighbours were summoned to Beijing for urgent talks.

The two-day Greater Mekong Subregion summit begins Sunday.

At present, the Greater Mekong sub-region has become the world's fastest growing and East Asian integration, the fastest in the world.

UNICEF says as many as 35 percent of sex workers in the Mekong River nations are under the age of 17.

There are fears that rising populations will mean increased use of the Mekong for drinking water, farming, fishing and transportation.

Analysts say oppositionVietnam and other lower Mekong countries could force Laos to scale back its hydropower ambitions.

China is now the Mekong's de facto river cop.

Yet the row over the drop in the Mekong seems under control.

The Mekong basin is the greatest inland fishing region in the world.

Vietnam-Mekong river, The women carrying visitors on the river.

Vietnamese restaurant with unique flavor of the River Mekong is furnished on the third floor.

Three years later, Ms. Latham bought two small plots totaling 2, 500 square meters on the right bank of the Mekong River.

A sucker fish is among new species discovered in the Greater Mekong region.

The decision to suspend shipping along the Mekong was handed down by officials in China's southwestern Yunnan province.

After it leaves China and the high altitudes, the Mekong becomes wide, brown and warm.

as sea levels rise, salination will worsen in the Mekong delta in Vietnam at the far end of its 5, 000km (3, 200-mile) length.

Of the world's rivers, only the Amazon has more species of fish than the Mekong.

The Dachaoshan dam in Yunnan province, China is one of many dams on the approximately 3, 000-mile (4, 800-kilometer) Mekong River.

Other suspected foci have been identified in the Greater Mekong subregion, but are not yet confirmed.

It is clear the Mekong subregion is seeing an integration of multiple interests.

Kirk Herbertson is Mekong campaigner at International Rivers.

Information on these agents may be obtained from the Mekong Tours .

Gazetteer Asia: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Borneo (Ref. 4833). Recorded from the Mekong delta (Ref. 12693).

Gazetteer Asia: Mekong and Chao Phraya basins .

Vietnam-Mekong river, The women washing cattle.

Greater Mekong countries duly backed the plan in August.

The newly proposed Xayaburi Dam in northern Laos is the first of 11 proposed dams planned for construction on the lower Mekong River.

Gazetteer Asia: Chao Phraya and Mekong basins.

1967 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

We were tired but also in high spirits: our dream to cycle along the Mekong River had finally come true.

Cambodia Fisheries personnel release a Mekong giant catfish in 2005.

Traditional boats cross the Mekong River at dusk.

The Mekong River flows into the South China Sea.

Nyguen moved here in the 1980s like many fellow Vietnamese from the fishing regions of the Mekong Delta.

the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends.

This is a Mekong giant catfish, the world's largest freshwater fish species, and this species in the wild is critically endangered. . .

China has built three hydroelectric dams on its stretch of the Mekong (called Lancang in China) and will complete a fourth dam in 2012.

On the Mekong alone China has planned or built eight dams.

Can Tho City Party Chief speaks ruefully about the race to build IZs and industrial complexes in the Mekong Delta.

The development of the Mekong River Basin is conducive to reducing the gap of development among countries in the region.

I think the Mekong Delta provinces need to quickly review their IZs, reconsider the fields of investment and the fields of priority.

The Mekong giant catfish is the current record holder based on the catch of a 646-pound specimen in 2005.

Two Thai fishermen hold a giant Mekong catfish caught in northern Thailand in 2005. The mammoth fish weighed 646 pounds (293 kilograms).

In short, the Mekong Delta provinces have built or planned to build too many IZs.

This is the best geopolitical analysis I have read on the subject of Mekong dam building.

Fish in the Mekong, they are both food and also economics, " Trandem said. "

the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong river in other countries.

Jianjia luxuriant. Bailu not clear. The so-called Iraqi people in the Mekong water.

He will join other heads of state for the third Greater Mekong Subregion summit.

Adult Mekong giant catfish can grow to 650 pounds and almost 10 feet in length.

A Thai fishery department official catches a 66-pound (33 kilogram) Mekong giant catfish in 2006.

The $3. 5 billion Xayaburi hydropower dam is the first of 12 dams planned for the lower Mekong.

They should also take part in the development of the Greater Mekong Subregion and accelerate the building of Asia's infrastructure network.

In the Mekong area it is the inappropriate use of antimalarials that is fuelling this "quiet emergency" .

Three men capture a 591-pound, 5-foot-long Mekong Giant Catfish from the Tonle Sap River in Cambodia, 2000.

The Chinese side will pool energetic efforts in the development of the Mekong River valley.

I would not, for example, let her swim in the Mekong.

A major feature in this vast waterworks is the 800, 000-square-kilometer Lancang-Mekong basin, home to some 60 million people.

A rare giant catfish caught in the Mekong River may set a record for size, but the species is disappearing fast.

Sayabouly is the first of 11 proposed dams on the lower reaches of the Mekong, a river that is already heavily dammed upstream in China.

It can be expected the development of the whole Mekong river region will be more active because of China's full participation.

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Cultural Characteristics and Management of the Foreign Students from the Great Mekong Area

Progress of, Obstacles and Outlets to China's Participation in the Cooperation of the Great Mekong Sub-region

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Please see detailed English here: Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation against Trafficking in Persons in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

The Dance Culture of the Thai Ethnic Groups in the Mountainous Region Along the Mekong River

International Cooperation in LanCang-Mekong River Subregion and Construction of Three Economic Corridors

Analysis on the Changes of Water Resource System of the Lancang River and its Impacts to Great Mekong Sub-regional Cooperation

Local Channel Improvement in Upper Mekong River: A Transboundary Environmental Friendly Project

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Correlation and connection of the main suture zones in the Greater Mekong subregion

Present Status of Spread of Malaria and Its Control Strategies in Lancang-Mekong River Basin

Cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Complex Cooperative Mechanism and China's Participation

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China's Participation in Economic Cooperation in the Mekong Sub-region and Its Progress

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Though the Mekong is in peril, riparian governments seem oddly insouciant

Building a "Great Route" of international shipping in the Lancangjiang-Mekong River

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Influence of Water and Electricity Development in Mekong River upon Environment

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Regional Cooperation of Pan-Zhujiang River and Sub-regional Economic Cooperation of Mekong River

Features and Prospects of the Economic Cooperation in the Mekong Subregion

Interim Committee for Coordination of Investigations of Lower Mekong Basin;

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Impacts of Dam Constructions on the Annual Distribution of Sediment in Lancang-Mekong River Basin

Country Report on China's Participation in Greater Mekong Subregion Cooperation

Greater Mekong Sub - region Cooperation: Perspectives of State and Market

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Symposium on the comprehensive development of the Greater Mekong Subregion;

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Inter-Governmental Agreement on Regional Power Trade in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

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Political Trust in Greater Mekong Sub-region Economic Cooperation

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International Symposium on the Regional Development of the Mekong Basin;

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Division of the tectonic units in the Greater Mekong subregion

Currency Exchange Barriers in Lancang River- Mekong Sub- region

Study on the equitable and suitable allocation model of water resources in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin

Analysis of Great Mekong Sub-region Cooperation

Agreement for the Facilitation of Cross-Border Transport of Goods and People in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

Mayanmar: Promising Land of Informationization along Mekong River

the Mekong to the southeast, to the South China Sea south of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam;

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Exec; Executive Agent of Mekong Secretariat;