Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen brought the country’s largest hydropower dam online Monday, suggesting at a launch ceremony that opposition to the controversial project had been sown by foreigners ...

Cambodia has decided to go ahead with the construction of a dam on a Mekong tributary, but conservation groups are concerned that not enough study has been done on the hydropower project’s ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. When completed, the Lower Sesan II dam will inundate 36,000 hectares (89,000 acres) of forest and force 5,000 people to relocate, activists say.

The floodgates of the largest and most controversial dam project in the country’s history officially closed yesterday at an inauguration ceremony presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who took aim ...

A monk sits in front of his pagoda in the village of Kbal Romeas. Credit: Luc Forsyth Subscribe for ads-free reading Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a journey to follow the Mekong river ...

‘If there had not been this project, we would have still been living in hardship, using kerosene-burning lamps or batteries,” Souy For, a 51-year-old father-of-two, said of a new power station in ...

Thon Min, 65, fishes in the early morning on the Mekong River near the island of Koh Sralay. Credit: Gareth Bright Subscribe for ads-free reading Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a ...

Aerial photo taken on Sept. 20, 2019 shows a view of the Lower Sesan II hydroelectric power station at Sesan District of Stung Treng Province, Cambodia. The Lower Sesan II hydroelectric power station, ...