The Salween River begins in the highlands of Tibet and flows 1,700 miles through western China and Burma before reaching the Andaman Sea. It’s the longest undammed river in Southeast Asia and supplies ...

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 ...

For generations, fishing families along the Salween River have drawn drinking water and caught food from one of Southeast Asia’s last major undammed waterways. Now, scientific testing and ...

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 ...

Thailand - In the dry season, the Salween River cuts a multicolored gash of green, gray and beige as it carries Himalayan snowmelt through steaming jungles along the Thailand-Burma border en route to ...

This morning at Sob Moei -- the confluence of the Moei and the Salween rivers on the Thailand-Myanmar border -- indigenous peoples and their supporters are attending a spiritual ceremony to express ...

A 16-year-old Karen boy, swims in the Salween River at the Myanmar-Thai border. Adrees Latif/Reuters Thousands of protesters gathered in Myanmar’s North Kachin state on October 4, as fresh violence ...

It’s been a phenomenal week of kayaking for the Epicocity crew on southwest China’s Salween River. Himalayan snowmelt left the Salween swollen with rapids that were the biggest and most exciting we’ve ...