When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy-Salween Delta in 2008, it killed nearly 140,000 people and left more than 2 million residents of this low-lying region homeless. A joint U.S.-Myanmar ...

Activists warn of arsenic contamination from upstream mining in Myanmar, pressing Thai authorities for action and greater transparency over mineral flows.

The great rivers of Southeast Asia — the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Salween, and others — are targets for dozens of major dams that will transform the region’s politics and ecology. The contest over the ...

(MENAFN- Asia Times) Newly announced plans to build four major gas-fired power plants could save the pristine river from environmentally destructive hydro-power dams By Bangkok, February 11, 2018 1:12 ...

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (Burma), September 30, 2011 (ENS) – Myanmar President Thein Sein today announced that the Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River would be halted “to respect the will of the people.” ...

Late last year, an ongoing conflict in southeast Myanmar (Burma) between members of the Karen ethnic minority group and the Myanmar government intensified over the government’s plans to build a new ...

In accordance with deals signed under military rule, Myanmar plans to build five major hydroelectric dams on its stretch of the Salween River. The majority of the power produced will go to China and ...

Chinese scientists have pinpointed the sources of four major rivers that flow through China and south Asia, and measured their lengths and size of drainage basins, information that will prove to be ...

View post: I Frequently Travel on a Whim. This Is the Best Travel Insurance for Last-Minute Trips The Salween River begins in the highlands of Tibet and flows 1,700 miles through western China and ...