Dam construction on the lower Mekong is overseen, nominally, by the Mekong River Commission (MRC). Funded by international development agencies and by its four member nations—Vietnam ...

Despite its limitations, the body is key to ongoing efforts to save one of the world’s largest and longest rivers.

An American funding collaborative is on a mission to help environmental advocates in Southeast Asia protect the Mekong River. Can it do so while navigating the tide of regional politics?

Economic data from the Fisheries Department of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) shows annual fish catch of the four lower Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, was valued at ...

Data collected by the Mekong River Commission indicates that the reversal of Tonle Sap River is increasingly occurring later in the year, delaying the onset of the vital lake’s expansion.

For different reasons, both projects remain beyond the purview of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), an inter-governmental organisation through which Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam try to ...

said a representative of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRCS), citing results of mathematical modelling. Such water level volatility would also harm the natural process of sediment ...

The Phou Ngoy dam is one of nine hydropower projects that the Lao government is planning on the mainstream of the Mekong River. A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the ...