The Salween (Thanlwin) River is one of the major waterways of Myanmar (Burma). Entering northeastern Myanmar from China's Yunnan Province, it flows southward through the mountain valleys of Shan, Kayah, and Karen (Kayin) States before reaching...

The Salween River (Burmese: သံလ္ဝင္‌မ္ရစ္‌; IPA: [θànlwìn myiʔ]; also spelled Salwine) rises in Tibet, Tibetan (རྒྱ་མོ་དངུལ་ཆུ་)after which it flows through Yunnan, where it is known as the...

They prayed separately and then joined together, Buddhist and Christian villagers, vowing to save their great untamed river from damming that they fear will not only flood their native lands but lead to violence, forced labor and relocation at gunpoint. "They will kill...

A new species of the schilbid catfish genus Clupisoma Swainson, 1838, was discovered in the Salween River [= Nujiang ] of western Yunnan Province, China. There are no previous records of schilbid catfish from the middle reaches of the Salween River before this discovery....

Sylvester Stallone says he and his "Rambo" sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border."I witnessed the aftermath _ survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off,"...

Tens of thousands of villagers could be displaced and a fragile ecosystem destroyed by a hydropower project being built on northeastern Myanmar's Salween River, an international conservation group said Thursday.Construction on the Ta Sang hydropower plant, which includes a dam, began earlier this year in...