How To Use Mekong In A Sentence
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It was caught along the Mekong River and is believed to be the largest freshwater fish ever found.
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Most are ethnic Cham - fishermen and traders from the Mekong River delta converted to Islam by Malay and Arab merchants.
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The tour visits Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hoi An, the Mekong Delta and a visit to the ancient archeological site at Hue.
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The forerunners of today's Thais gradually moved from what is now southern China into the area of the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins.
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Among them is the Mekong giant catfish, which is the size of a bull shark, and the Mekong stingray, which can weigh up to 600kg.
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As a kayaker and rafter, Angelo has descended many of the world's longest rivers such as the Nile, Yangtze, Amazon, and Mekong - and has paddled many of the biggest rapids on Earth.
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For example, defoliants which were sprayed during the Vietnam War killed most of the mangrove forests in the Mekong Delta.
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On day 12, they will go to My Tho in the Mekong Delta to visit a military snake farm before boarding the private sampan for a river cruise.
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The Chinese move to suspend southbound passenger and cargo traffic on the Mekong from Yunnan Province is mainly a political symbol, as opposed to an economic sanction.
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The subtropical jungle area is located mainly along the Mekong river.
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My leisurely progress down the Mekong was a good introduction to a slow and unhurried town.
Times, Sunday Times
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You see what a vile little backstabbing ratfink Willard Mitt Romney really is...the French kindly help him to avoid an early death in the Mekong Delta and how does he repay them but with catcalls and brickbats.
The Chimes at Midnight
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Lam Thi Hien, a kylin mask maker in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, says decorating the kylin is the most difficult part of making the toys.
Undefined
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In the evening the Mekong always seemed to come alive, changing its colour like a chameleon, camouflaging itself against the darkening sky until it swallowed the sun.
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Southern Vietnam also offers Mekong River excursions, where tourists can see floating markets and visit villages that make baskets and lacquerware.
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This is a native of the Mekong river delta in Vietnam.
Times, Sunday Times
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The immediate cause of the flooding is put down to heavy rainfalls earlier in the year in the upper reaches of the Mekong River system.
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They then journey down the Mekong River, and then onto the Laos capital Vientiane.
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Hydrologists, biologists and geomorphologists are only now discovering many of the complex forces that shape the Mekong Basin.
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The Chinese move to suspend southbound passenger and cargo traffic on the Mekong from Yunnan Province is mainly a political symbol, as opposed to an economic sanction.
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The country boasts a sublime natural beauty, with the Red River Delta in the north, the Mekong Delta in the south and a patchwork coastal strip of brilliant green rice paddies.
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The most central region culturally and economically is the lowland flood plain of the Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake.
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Fish are an essential part of the diet for all the countries bordering the Mekong after it flows out of China.
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Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
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The Mekong, the Yangtze, in Burma the Salween, in India the Ganges, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra, in Pakistan the Indus--all these great rivers are at risk because the glaciers that feed them are receding.
Rebecca Novick: Global Warming: The Un-tellable Story
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I walked the stretch of road from our apartment to the Mekong Grocery.
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As for Teresa's husband, his expression bespoke having subsisted solely on Brussels sprouts since returning from the Mekong Delta.
As Lone Ranger, Kerry Shows Why He Needs Tonto
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I walked the stretch of road from our apartment to the Mekong Grocery.
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A patch of earth and a sprinkle of water from the province of Ba Xuyen in the Mekong Delta.
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This is a native of the Mekong river delta in Vietnam.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
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But his labored effort to show that it is possible to get to the Cambodian border from Vietnam via the Mekong River is a little more trouble than it's worth.
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And rather than win swiftly and brutally as we had with a mighty Japanese Empire, LBJ fought Vietnam as the conflicted war president he was, babbling on about building “a Great Society on the Mekong.”
Matthew Yglesias » The War
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Southeast Asian nations have long argued over how best to develop the Mekong, which remains one of the last major rivers world-wide that isn't dammed through most of its length, though it has dams in its upper reaches in China.
Southeast Asian Nations to Discuss Laos Dam
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Fish is a major part of the diet in southern Vietnam, where the Mekong's distributaries teem with wild and farmed specimens.
Canh Chua Ca
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It was in that guise that he was captured in 1943, floating down the Mekong River in a bamboo raft.
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Cooperation for the development of the Mekong River valley is about to unfold.
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The book focuses on the Economic Quadrangle, an ambitious and visionary plan to create a zone of economic cooperation, integration and prosperity in the borderlands of the upper-Mekong region.
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The reader should be aware that the Mekong flows generally in an easterly direction across Viet Nam from Cambodia and ultimately empties into the South China Sea.
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Perhaps the boatswain missed the turn-off for Bangkok from the Mekong?
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He and his wife both grew up in villages along the Mekong River in an area of Kampong Cham Province rich with ethnic Cham and Cambodian Chinese.
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But his labored effort to show that it is possible to get to the Cambodian border from Vietnam via the Mekong River is a little more trouble than it's worth.
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La France fit alors le blocus des côtes, ce qui obligea la cour du Siam à renoncer à toute revendication sur la rive gauche du Mékong tandis que nous gardions en otage les provinces de Chantaboun et de Paknam.
KI Media
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Among them is the Mekong giant catfish, which is the size of a bull shark, and the Mekong stingray, which can weigh up to 600kg.
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It was in that guise that he was captured in 1943, floating down the Mekong River in a bamboo raft.
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I tried to take a pleasure cruise on the Mekong, but was told the river was only used by smugglers.
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The Ganga is the smaller river that meets the Ganges, and it’s a lot bigger than either the Mississippi or the Mekong.
Matthew Yglesias » Torture and Stick-Beating
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Cooperation for the development of the Mekong River valley is about to unfold.
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We ate mushroom until we came to the Mekong.
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I would mix the soil in the heavily silted water of the Mekong River as a way to spread this handful of soil throughout Vietnam.
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I stayed at the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, an enclave of 15 luxurious guest tents situated in a tall bamboo grove along the silty Ruak River, a Mekong tributary.
A Very Big Game
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Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
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Tomorrow, we are venturing out into the Mekong Delta, where, after two restful nights in superb accommodations, we will be bedding down in decidedly less luxurious digs.
Monique Stringfellow: Sensible Splurge: When Not to Cut Corners on Lodging
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While there you can take in its picturesque hillsides and valleys, along with visiting the Mekong Delta.
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‘This project is the first ever large-scale attempt to use underwater biotelemetry to study fish migrations in the Mekong River Basin,’ Hogan said.
