Salween River News Today

An escalating battle between junta troops and ethnic rebels means the residents of Pa Law Ta Moe can’t go home.

Civilians displaced by the Southeast Asian country’s three-year civil war face a journey through jungles, mountains and rivers to flee the violence

On March 29, ethnic environmental protection organizations from the Myanmar side, along with Thai civil environmental groups, gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to tackle the surge in wildfire incidents and the accompanying air pollution, caused by smoke from burning fires in the Salween River areas along the Thailand-Myanmar border.

To worry about the land and stress over their legal relationship with it is the condition of the Karen people today.

Community land for most Indigenous Karen people in Myanmar is not subject to ownership — it is rather a source of their faith, a divine creator of which the Karen are solely the custodians. Despite this belief, Karen communities living in the southern Kayin state (or Kawthoolei, as Karen nationalists call it) have taken part […]

Beijing’s overriding goal is to restore the stability necessary to allow integrative infrastructure projects to proceed.

Life as we know it was largely shaped by rivers. Many major ancient civilizations formed along river valleys, relying on seasonal floodwaters to irrigate their crops. Without these rivers, agriculture would not have been possible in these otherwise arid areas. (Floodwaters can also wreak havoc on settlements. Here are countries where the most people have […]

With their bright orange tails and elongated snouts, redtail garras are a popular aquarium fish. Yet while these fish have graced aquariums for decades, information about their biology has been hard to find — because they were just recently described by science. During his fieldwork, Larry Page, a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural […]

According to residents, a man was killed in Wanaung (Yin Talai) village, Hpasawng Township, Karen State when the Military Council bombed the area with warplanes and fired artillery shells. On June 28, at approximately 11:00 p.m., a 56-year-old man was killed in Wanaung (Yin Talai) village, Hpasawng Township. The incident occurred when Military Council troops fired artillery

Combined anti-regime forces have taken control of Maese town in a ‘boost for the revolution’.