Joint Mekong patrol completes 10th round

China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand launch action against traffickers Border police inspect luggage at a checkpoint in the Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, on May 15. Photo by Chen Haining / Xinhua Narcotics officers assigned ...

BEIJING, May 21 (UPI) -- The Mekong River has long been considered a key location for drug trafficking through the opium-producing Golden Triangle Region, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported Monday. The four countries vowed a crackdown on ...

HCMC Climate change is leaving huge impacts on the ecosystem as well as agricultural and aquatic farming activities of millions of people in the Mekong Delta, said an environmental official. Nguyen Thai Lai, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and ...

Linda Beuret and her husband, Peter, traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia in January to sail on the Mekong River, which had been a dream of theirs. "We were amazed at the Mekong River and all the people who live on the river without stepping on land," ...

Jeff Opperman Fishermen along the Mekong River capture their dinner by unfurling large nets. Jeff Opperman, a senior freshwater scientist with the Nature Conservancy, is taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip down the Mekong River in Southeast Asia with ...

Illustrative image.€ VNS File Photo CAN THO (VNS)€ The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has approved a project to build a fisheries centre for the region, announced Director of the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Pham Van ...

• Source: WWF • Views: 45 The Greater Mekong sub region in Southeast Asia might lose one third of its forests in the next two decades if measures of protection won't be taken, warns the WWF. From the satellite observation, it has been discovered ...

Determined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China's security forces considered a tactic they had never tried before: calling a drone strike on his remote hideaway deep in the hills of Myanmar. The attack did not happen — the ...

A report recently issued by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says that, by the year 2030, the Greater Mekong region will have lost about 30% of its current forest cover. This claim is based on data collected while analyzing deforestation patterns in ...