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 ...

The Salween River meanders through pristine mountain forests before reaching a camp for internally displaced people at Ei Htu Hta, near the Thai-Myanmar border. Temporary bamboo shelters dot the hills ...

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 ...

The free-flowing Salween is the last big undammed river in Southeast Asia, home to a flurry of endangered species including tigers and clouded leopards, writes Tom Fawthrop in Hpa-an, Karen State, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a world where most of the great rivers have been dammed for hydropower, the good news coming out of China is that the spectacular Nu/Salween, one of the last undammed rivers in Asia, will retain ...