River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Its basin is dotted with 190 ...

Just before dawn on a pleasantly warm August morning, the AmaDara is tied up to trees on an island in the middle of the Mekong River ... in April 1975, the Vietnam war officially ended and ...

When President Donald Trump launched his first trade war with Beijing in 2018 ... A dredger pumps sand from the bottom of the Mekong River near the Cambodia–Vietnam border.