By Liam Cochrane [ABC, 15 May 2017]

Environmental groups in Thailand are concerned about China's plan to blast shallow parts of the Mekong River to allow heavy shipping...But the Mekong blasting, like the One Belt One Road summit, is about more than just trade....

By Brett Walton [Circle of Blue, 8 November 2016]

In a HotSpots H2O interview with Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton, Dr. Carl Middleton discusses the strain that hydropower development is adding to one of the region’s most politically, culturally, and biologically diverse watersheds. Dr. Middleton, director of the Center for Social Development Studies at Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, also explores alternate futures for the Salween River.