CHIANGRAI TIMES – A senior Thai official has accused Laos of bowing to pressure from China by allowing casinos in the country but authorities in...
MAE SARIANG, northern Thailand—Driving from the tiny town of Mae Sariang in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand, to a small Thai-Burmese frontier trading point...
Chiangrai Times – Sources with the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday that Lao police had interrogated a drug lord in China who is...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Dr Cynthia Maung founder of the highly respected Mae Tao Clinic, has cautiously welcomed some positive developments by the new Myanmar government,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES -Drug manufacturing is thriving in the area known as the Golden Triangle, led by armed minority ethnic groups. The news coming out of...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand has warned the population of a border area with Myanmar after “threats” by the leader of a Burmese ethnic rebel group...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The controversial Xayaburi hydro-electric dam project in northern Laos may have already begun, despite countries, including Cambodia, requesting further studies to assess...
CHIANGRAI TIMES –Myanmar took in fewer foreign visitors last year than every other nation in Southeast and East Asia with the exception of North Korea....
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A former private, who once held a bright future in the military, can now barely support himself after being injured in the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The Golden Triangle is one of those regions that has captured popular imagination: think warlords, secret armies, opium mule trains chugging through...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand has allocated THB15 million to help Myanmar set up a self-sufficient community to cut down on the country’s opium cultivation. In pursuit...
CHIANGRAI TIMES-Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung said the army would help erect barbed-wire fences along the northern border, as 87 percent of illicit drugs were...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Every road is leading to Myanmar and a number of Thai and foreign companies are joining the bandwagon as they don’t want...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung plans to propose a budget to build a prison especially for drug convicts in Si Khiu district...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A thin line divides tourism, trade and terror in the Golden Triangle, where the lawless borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet....
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai Naval Authorities on Thursday rescued 800 live dogs from an illegal meat trading ring in this northeastern Thai province and a...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar’s (Burma) government signed a cease-fire agreement Thursday with ethnic Karen rebels in a major step toward ending one of the world’s...
Beijing has suspended Chinese ships from the Golden Triangle area of the Mekong River following the brutal murder of at least 12 Chinese crewmen on...
