At the crack of dawn every day, the 56-year-old woman heads to the river bank in Thailand’s ... an expert on Lancang/Mekong issues, dismisses as “untenable” the accusations levelled by ...

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic ... it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom ...

Citizens in northern Thailand staged protests along the shore of the Mekong River in Chiang Rai province ... environmental activists and representatives of women’s rights groups, joined the ...