The War Remnants Museum offered a sobering but essential perspective on the Vietnam War and the role of the United States. Spending time on the museum’s three floors was both uncomfortable and ...

In the southern reaches of Vietnam, life has revolved around the water for hundreds of years. Here, in the Mekong Delta and on the Con Dao islands of the South China Sea, communities continue to ...

A dredger pumps sand from the bottom of the Mekong River near the Cambodia–Vietnam border. ... (621 miles) of highways in 2025 — assuming Trump’s latest trade war doesn’t derail things.

The Mekong region is a transnational area in Southeast Asia, comprising Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Located at the junction of two Asian economic powers, China and India, the Mekong ...

The Mekong River stretches for 4,350 kilometers, flowing from Tibetan glaciers through six countries and eventually through Vietnam to the sea. The river’s name comes from Mae Nam Khong , a Thai ...

Upper Mekong voyages though Laos are less popular, evident from the dearth of major cruise lines meandering that section of the 2,700-mile river, the world’s twelfth-longest.