. . BANGKOK – Despite an aggressive crackdown on drugs, Thailand’s fight against methamphetamines is failing, activists say. With supply and demand rising, these highly addictive...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm yesterday vowed to push for law amendments to allow the execution of drug convicts when 15 days had...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Chiangrai’s Royal Thai Police have seized illicit drugs with a street value of 800 million baht and arrested three suspects in Chiang...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai security forces have seized their second multimillion haul of methamphetamine pills in two days, bringing the total this year to more...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The Department of Special Investigation suspects that smuggled cold and allergy tablets seized from two hospitals were to be sent to illegal...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai police chief, Pol Col Thanomsak Yospan led police and drug suppression agency-the Office of the Narcotics Control Board...
Thai police have arrested five men and seized 500 million baht (16.6 million dollars) worth of methamphetamine drugs smuggled from the country’s northern border with...
Pha Muang Task Force has ordered its own investigation into the alleged involvement of nine officers of the army in the deaths of 13 Chinese...
Xuexian Ai, 78, co-founder of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in 1989, died in Mandalay Saturday, October 29, years after suffering from paralysis, was confirmed...
The early October massacre of 13 Chinese barge crew on the Mekong River near the tri-border of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar has thrust the lawless...
Facing death if caught, for a measly 5,000 baht, drug mules swim across the Mekong river from Laos with loads of methamphetamines. The illegal...
An agreement has been made in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and China to break down cross-border crime together and safe transport along the Mekong River is...
The arrests last Friday of nine Thai Army officers for the Oct. 5 murders of 13 Chinese seamen spotlight a horrific crime. But the affair...
A group of Chinese patrol vessels set out for Thailand along the Mekong River on Thursday to escort the stranded Chinese sailors and ships back...
An unidentified corpse was found in the Mekong River near the site where two cargo ships were hijacked last week, police said Tuesday. The male body...
CHIANGRAI NEWS – The new, vicious drug war in the North makes it clear that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has much more business to attend...
The killing of 13 Chinese sailors in north Thailand last week have sparked fury against the brutal murderous drug traffickers in the notorious Golden Triangle from...
Twelve bodies have been found in the Mekong River in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen district. The bodies of three Chinese men, their hands tied and handcuffed...
A drug trafficking suspect was killed on Wednesday in a gunfight between uniformed government forces led by Marine Police and drug trafficking suspects on the...
Myanmar’s increasing amphetamine production is contributing to the worldwide rise of synthetic drug use, with the Mekong River now a key route for drug trafficking...