CHIANG KHONG, Thailand (AP) — Dismissing its neighbors' pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia's poorest people.

The majestic Mekong River stretches some 4,350 km from the Tibetan plateau to the South China Sea, carving through China’s Yunnan province, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Around 60 ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Work has resumed on a controversial $3.5 billion dam across the Mekong River in Laos, its Thai developer said on Thursday, contradicting Laotian assurances it had been suspended ...

LUANG PRABANG, Laos — Landlocked Laos doesn't have the famous beaches of its neighbors to attract tourists, but instead relies on the pristine beauty of its mountains and rivers and historical sites ...

SIEM PANG, Cambodia — Kang Ngan isn’t sure what a dam is. She doesn’t know how old she is, although she thinks “over 30” is a good guess. But she has lived long enough to know that something is ...

LUANG PRABANG, Laos — Landlocked Laos doesn't have the famous beaches of its neighbors to attract tourists, but instead relies on the pristine beauty of its mountains and rivers and historical sites ...

BANGKOK — Hundreds of people were missing Tuesday after being swept away by an enormous wall of water that roared through a half-dozen villages in Laos when a dam under construction failed. At least ...

A dam collapse in a remote part of land-locked Laos sent a torrent of water downstream, washing away villages and leaving large areas flooded. July 26, 2018 The dam that failed was part of the $1.2 ...

BANGKOK -- Massive flooding from a South Korean-constructed hydroelectric dam in Laos left several people dead and hundreds missing, state media said Tuesday. Rescue efforts were underway as top ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Landlocked Laos ...