Traveling Down the Mekong River

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Traveling Down the Mekong River episodes

December 10, 2009 Behind the Bamboo Curtain
In northeastern Burma's Shan state, our Mekong team speaks with the Lahu minority people about being forced into difficult, often deadly service to the Burmese army.
6 min
December 07, 2009 Melting Glaciers
Experts say two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt over the next 40 years. The Mekong team treks to the Mingyong Glacier in northern Yunnan, China, a 12-km sheet of ice.
4 min
December 03, 2009 Rubber Kingdom Along River
Flowing for the first time through this regional capital in Yunnan province, China, the Lancang provides electricity to neighboring Thailand while an ethnic minority produces rubber.
4 min
December 02, 2009 Harnessing the Lancang Jiang
As the Mekong changes its name and wends through the highlands of Yunnan province, the massive scale of China's plans to dam the mighty river are readily apparent.
5 min
November 24, 2009 The Ice Triangle
Officially, the military regime fights drug production in Shan State, Burma, but our reporters meet with local residents who expose the army as a main participant in the manufacturing process.
6 min
November 20, 2009 The Sacred Plateau
Nomads describe the ancient practices of water burial and sky burial, threatened by China's policies in Tibet.
5 min
November 01, 2009 The Last Black Tents
The ancestral lifestyle of the Khampa nomads in Tibet is threatened by a forced modernization.
5 min
November 01, 2009 The Source of the Mekong
Dzachu, Tibetan for the Mekong River, is said to be sacred by nomads living on the Qinghai plateau.
5 min
October 16, 2009 Why this Project?
We invite you to travel with RFA down the least developed of the world's major rivers—the Mekong: fragile, beautiful, and threatened as never before.
6 min

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The Mekong River is the longest river in Southeast Asia and supports the lives of 70 million people from Tibet to Vietnam. Our reporters undertook the journey to tell their stories in blog posts,…