During the Vietnam War, countries in the Mekong River basin still continued technical negotiations.
The stock exchange and an Australian-financed bridge across the Mekong River are being hurried up for "soft" openings.
The Mekong River Commission calculates that the fish catch actually doubled in Cambodia between the 1940s and the 1990s.
In April China defended itself (another first) at the Mekong River Commission, the inter-governmental body supposed to resolve disputes.
Obviously they expected to meet more than the crowd of curious villagers gathered along the banks of the Mekong River.
Labour remains cheap, and the Mekong River running through Cambodia allows the country to benefit from schemes to develop the entire river basin.
Meanwhile, the Mekong River Commission, the latter-day successor to the Mekong Committee, calculates that flood levels have fallen by almost 11% since 1965.
They are raised in cages that float in dirty marshes in the Mekong river or so says Marion Berry, a Democratic congressmen from Arkansas.
Many of these areas are found in Asia, such as the Ganges River Delta, the Mekong River Delta and islands in the South Pacific.
Media in China support the pending execution of a Burmese drug trafficker and see it as long overdue justice for Chinese crewmen murdered on the Mekong River.
Equally, last year's flooding of the Mekong river, which devastated large parts of Cambodia, should serve as a warning to the region, says David McCauley, head of the ADB's climate-change programme.
ECONOMIST: The threat grows from rising water and sinking buildings
Further, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. drew battle lines dividing Asia, across the East Sea, through Korea's 38th Parallel and the Taiwan Strait, and along Vietnam's 17th Parallel and the Mekong river.
He was found guilty of leading a gang to hijack two Chinese cargo boats on the Mekong River to ship methamphetamine and abduct 13 Chinese sailors onboard in 2011, Beijing Times reports.
In the Mekong River Delta, for instance, the sea level rising by 2 meters (6.5 feet) could mean the loss of millions of acres of agricultural land, reducing it by half, Ehrhart said.
Li Zhuqun, a senior international co-operation official at China's Ministry of Public Security said the gang had now been broken up, but that "efforts to ensure the safety of the Mekong River will continue".
Due to their size and the nearby bones, some archaeologists think the urns were prehistoric burial sites for an ancient civilisation that travelled along a forgotten overland trade route between the Mekong River and the Gulf of Tonkin.
From the clouds, the little girl's spirit watched her family escape into the Laotian jungle, run around in circles for four years, and then surface on the banks of the Mekong River in Thailand starving survivors.
In Phnom Penh, the streets leading down to the picturesque Mekong River waterfront are lined with uncollected garbage.
Naw Kham was eventually captured and extradited to China to stand trial for the killings of 13 Chinese crewmen on Mekong River in 2011.
Most at risk is Ho Chi Minh City on the Saigon river, just north of the Mekong.
ECONOMIST: The threat grows from rising water and sinking buildings
The Mekong and its tributaries yield more fish than any other river system.
The Mekong is home to over 1, 200 different species of fish, more than any other river save the Amazon and the Congo.
Careful consideration must be made now of the potential impacts of this, and other dams being considered for the 3-S River Basin, to avoid serious losses and to form a positive solution for the people of the lower Mekong, their energy needs and the environment on which they depend.
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