A new crop of factories requires roads, and that means sand. To keep up, the country is importing from Cambodia on a massive scale. When President Donald Trump launched his first trade war with ...

Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In Southeast Asia, the famed 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 ...

Surging demand for sand used in construction projects poses an existential threat to Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The seasonal expansion and contraction of ...