1. Forget strenuous day-trips: The Mekong Eyes is the first choice in on-board accommodation on the Mekong.

2. Mekong Dams Could Threaten Aquatic Life

3. The transformation of the Mekong Delta is of vital interest not only for Vietnam but for entire Mekong Basin.

4. The Mekong Bobtail is named after a river Historically, the Mekong Bobtail was known as the Thai Bobtail and was a natural cat breed found in countries bordering the Mekong River

5. A pretty idyilic place on the Mekong Delta.

6. A pretty idyllic place on the Mekong Delta.

7. Water pollution causes the greatest damage in the Mekong Delta.

8. As the sun sets on the Mekong , fishermen try their luck .

9. The important water resources are the Mekong, Hueang, and Loei Rivers.

10. Nos Toom Yang was handcuffed, blindfolded, and thrown into the Mekong River.

11. " Before long, you pass a dike, " then you get to the Mekong Bridge

12. Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is famous for its rice fields, shrimp ponds, embankments and canals.

13. We would also like to organize a Photography competition in the Mekong countries to promote tourism.

14. In November 1975, the Prince escaped from Laos by swimming across the Mekong river to Thailand.

15. The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia , with the largest inland fisheries in the world .

16. About 1,000km of inland waterways has been improved, especially the congested Cho Gao canal linking HCMC with Mekong Delta.

17. Founded in 1939 by Huynh Phu So, Hoa Hao is a Buddhist sect based in the western Mekong delta.

18. A survey conducted in 2007 by Cambodian Mekong Dolphin Conservation Project (CMDCP), a collaborative project between WWF, World Conservation Society, Fisheries Administration and Cambodian Rural Development Team (CRDT), estimated that there are between 66 and 86 dolphins left in the upper Cambodian Mekong area.

19. Just two years ago, livelihood in the Mekong Delta region were devastated by the effects of drought and saline intrusion.

20. And land subsidence paired with increased salinity in the Mekong Delta, puts at risk the livelihood of 13.6 million rice farmers.

21. The 3rd SFG was given responsibility for operations around the capital, along the lower Mekong-Bassac river corridors, and the coastline.

22. Lưu vực sông Mekong đã trở thành một trong những vùng năng động nhất trên thế giới về phát triển thủy điện bằng việc vừa hoàn thành con đập thứ tư của Trung Quốc trên sông Lancan (tên đoạn sông Mekong trên đất Trung Quốc) tại tỉnh Vân Nam, thêm 4 đập trên dòng chính đang xây hoặc đã có kế hoạch xây trước năm 2025, và bằng sự phục hồi các dự án xây đập trên dòng chính ở hạ nguồn Mekong.

23. About Cambodia Set your own pace by cycling through Khmer ruins at Angkor Wat or pedaling the banks of the mighty Mekong

24. The Mekong Delta is the food bowl of Vietnam, producing 50 percent of the country’s rice and 70 percent of its aquaculture produce.

25. The site was first excavated during the year 1996 and was again excavated in 1999 as part of the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project.

26. In 2016, salt water flowed almost 100 km up the Mekong. 200,000 hectares of crops were ruined, and rice and shrimp production plummeted.

27. The Mekong Delta alone contributes half of Vietnam’s rice, 70 percent of its aquaculture products, and one-third of Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP).

28. - The U.S. is seeking Congressional approval for an additional $ 15 million in 2010 for assistance related to improving food security in the Mekong countries .

29. Usually, they have two pairs of barbels, maxillary barbels and one pair of chin barbels, though adult Mekong giant catfish have only maxillary barbels.

30. Golden Triangle Casino Baron Bankrolls New Mekong River Port By Sebastian Strangio The international cargo port will supercharge the smuggling routes linking Zhao Wei's casino empire to …

31. (a) the current status of the Mekong-Ganga Co-operation (MGC) along with the activities undertaken to strengthen ties between people of the two great river basins;

32. Only 4.01 percent of the country is arable land, and a mere 0.34 percent used as permanent crop land, the lowest percentage in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

33. All of us gathered here today, represent the people who must work together to find innovative solutions for securing the future of the Mekong Delta Region.

34. In 2006 however, the Mekong Regional Health Support Project supported by the World Bank, made health insurance more affordable for vulnerable households such as Tam’s.

35. Your presence shows strong encouragement, commitment and leadership vision for the development and prosperity of Dong Thap Province, as well as the Mekong Delta Region.

36. Leadership in the Mekong Delta will provide lessons for Vietnam’s neighbors, as well as for the Ganges, the Okavango, the Mississippi and other complex delta systems.

37. Catfish (Siluriformes) Most authorities now give the crown of the largest catfish to the Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, which is also considered the heaviest completely freshwater fish.

38. I thank you Honorable Prime Minister for your leadership and commitment to moving the Mekong Delta’s development onto a strategic and climate resilient pathway with concrete outcomes.

39. Moreover, there was a strong need for extending transport connectivity to rural populations in the Mekong Delta and ensuring permanent access to/from the seasonally-flooded region.

40. It was also tasked of monitoring the security of naval facilities in the Cambodian capital and carried out counter-insurgency operations along the lower Mekong-Bassac Rivers corridors.

41. PHUKET , Thailand ( AFP ) - The United States held an unprecedented meeting Thursday with countries from the lower Mekong basin in what Washington said showed its commitment to combating climate change in Asia .

42. The project benefits communities living along the banks of flood-prone Mekong River who are often at risk of catching cholera, malaria, dengue fever and other deadly diseases.

43. The cooperation between the United States and the four Mekong downriver countries -- Cambodia , Laos , Thailand and Vietnam -- shows that the Americans attach importance to the region , said Yue Yang , a Vietnamese researcher .

44. I am honored to be here today to speak to you on the importance of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam’s development as the region stands ready to look at transformative solutions.

45. Mekong Express Bus from Phnom Penh to Battambang These bus companies are much better than the typical Cambodian bus services – they are less crowded, make less stops, and drive more carefully

46. We stand ready, through a national infrastructure platform, to support the government in adapting this framework to national priority investment programs, including the North-South Expressway, railway development and inland waterways in the Mekong region.

47. The Ministers urged closer collaboration between India and Mekong countries in trade promotion activities, customs inspection, sanitary and phyto-sanitary import clearance regulations to address trade bottlenecks and develop regional supply chains.

48. As the Khmer Rouge controlled the east bank of the Mekong opposite Phnom Penh, the command group selected LZ Hotel, a soccer field about 900 metres (3,000 ft) north-east of the embassy.

49. Besides feeding millions of people, the Mekong serves as a highway for craft of all sizes —small boats ferrying passengers, larger vessels carrying goods, and freighters steaming to and from the open sea.

50. As a former U.S. military officer in Phnom Penh reported, "the areas around the Mekong River were so full of bomb craters from B-52 strikes that, by 1973, they looked like the valleys of the moon."

51. The secretariat also assisted the ADB in preparing training materials and delivering a training course on the implementation of the Greater Mekong Subregional Cross-Border Transport Agreement along the East-West Economic Corridor in 2009.

52. He expressed an ambition of reuniting the ethnic Khmers of Cambodia with the Khmer Krom of the Mekong Delta and the Khmer Surin of Thailand, projecting a state of "thirty million" Khmers by the year 2020.

53. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underlined the importance of the Lower Mekong region and its individual countries to the United States and America's commitment to advancing peace and prosperity in the ASEAN region as a whole .

54. A sharply observed and evocatively described portrait of her experiences or 'Blunderings' meeting people along the Mekong River and a touching memoir about loss and change. Told with humor, sensitivity, and remarkable insight into the weirdness of …

55. Dates of the occupation are not known, but it probably ended well before the northward expansion of the Khmer Empire under Indravarman I (reigned 877-889) and extended as far as the territories of Sipsong Panna on the upper Mekong.

56. Phnom Penh, located at the junction of the Bassac, the Mekong, and the Tonle Sap rivers, is the only river port capable of receiving 8,000-ton ships during the wet season and 5,000-ton ships during the dry season.

57. During the many centuries of pre-Angkorian and Angkorian history – from Funan to Chenla and during the Khmer Empire, regional trade was centered at O Keo (Vietnamese: Óc Eo) in the Mekong Delta, now the province of Rạch Giá in Vietnam.

58. Neighbouring Vietnam warned that the dam would harm the Mekong Delta, which is the home to nearly 20 million people and supplies around 50 percent of Vietnam's rice output and over 70 percent of both its seafood and fruit output.

59. Given the large investment needs, the development of the Mekong Delta requires a strict adherence to identifying, programming and prioritizing investments that are efficient and effective; that take into account uncertainties and trade-offs; and that are embedded in science and strong analytics.

60. The two pre-existing Naval Bases were once again upgraded, while another two riverine stations were established on the lower Mekong corridor at Neak Leung in Kandal Province, and at the provincial capital of Kampong Chhnang, on the Tonle Sap River.

61. The floods often occur in the north and spread down the Chao Phraya River through the central plains, in the northeast along the Chi and Mun Rivers flowing into the Mekong, or in the coastal hillsides of the east and south.

62. Therefore, MRK activities were restricted to inland patrols on the Bassac River, the Mekong, and the Tonle Sap River in the vicinity of the namesake Great Lake whilst high seas operations were limited to routine inshore patrolling in the Gulf of Thailand.

63. With about 2 million beneficiaries from 2008 to 2011, the Mekong Regional Health Support Credit supported an increase in health insurance coverage of the near poor from 7 to 65 percent, and investments that led to an increase in patient satisfaction with treatment and facilities from 52 to 83 percent.

64. “To date, 12 provinces have declared the natural calamity - drought and saline intrusion – including 10 provinces in Mekong River Delta, namely Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Kien Giang, Soc Trang, Long An, Ca Mau, Vinh Long, Tra Vinh, Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan, and two provinces in the Central Highlands, namely Gia Lai and Kon Tum,” it reads.

65. Within the wagtail genus Motacilla, the white wagtail's closest genetic relatives appear to be other black-and-white wagtails such as the Japanese wagtail, Motacilla grandis, and the white-browed wagtail, Motacilla madaraspatensis (and possibly the Mekong wagtail, Motacilla samveasnae, the phylogenetic position of which is mysterious), with which it appears to form a superspecies.

66. The Mekong River is a major waterway for all seasons, brings in arable alluvium in the lower land areas along the river, is the fishing lot in the dry season, is the irrigation for rice fields during the dry season, provides pebbles and sand for construction, and can be used to build hydroelectricity plants at Sambo District, Kratie Province

67. With the help of a diffractometer, Hoàng T. T. analyzed about a hundred samples of clays from diverse origins: kaolin from alluvions of ancient Quaternary (Province of Bình Dương, Biên Hoà) ), the clays of recent alluvions (different localities between Mekong and Đông Nai river), or from the weathering of granite, rhyolite and shale of Đà Lạt area (Province of Lâm Đồng).

68. Strategic framework for the promotion of agricultural development cooperation in the Greater Tumen Subregion: in pursuing a subregional approach to agricultural sector development, such as the Greater Mekong Subregion programme, UNAPCAEM prepared a project profile on a strategic framework for promoting agricultural development cooperation in the Greater Tumen Subregion in North-East Asia, involving five member countries of ESCAP (China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation), focusing on enhancing the investment climate and creating an enabling agribusiness environment in the subregion

69. * Since its specific formulation in 1991, and I say specific because elements of India's Look East Policy could be found in our foreign policy even before but merely acquired a more deliberate character and formulation in keeping with the growing capacities of India and South East Asia at the time, India has been pursuing active constructive engagement with ASEAN, and South East Asia through its dialogue partnership with ASEAN and through fora such as ARF, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical Cooperation (BIMSTEC), the Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) and now the East Asia Summit.