. . YANGON– Burmese police have said Interpol will take over the search for 25-year-old Harris Binotti, who may have fled to Thailand after fellow Brit...
. . TWANTE -Â Three Burmese children have been beaten to death in a village outside Yangon by a man purporting to be a healer, who...
. Â . MANDALAY – A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced Dutch National Klaas Haytema to three months in prison and a fine after he unplugged a...
CHIANG RAI – Drug runners are now increasingly using Mekong river which flows through Chiang Rai’s Golden Triangle to smuggle drugs out to other parts of...
. . BANGKOK – Despite an aggressive crackdown on drugs, Thailand’s fight against methamphetamines is failing, activists say. With supply and demand rising, these highly addictive...
BANGKOK – Thailand Immigration Officials said Tuesday that it was unable to find any other country willing to accept about 2,000 Rohingya refugees from neighboring...
THON MIN YAR – Deep in the lawless mountains of the Golden Triangle, sloping fields of illegal poppies have just been scraped dry for opium....
YANGON — The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, currently the world’s hottest frontier market. Flanked by...
KUALA LUMPUR— When Hussein Juhar, a Rohingya Muslim from Burma’s western Arakan (Rakhine) State, saw the crew of the boat that would smuggle him to...
Chiangrai Times – Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and China have launched their fifth joint Mekong River patrol on Monday. The Patrols are in an effort to...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Buddhist vigilantes in Western Myanmar have attacked a bus and killed nine Muslims in of the deadliest communal violence in the country....
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 – Anger over drug suppression efforts by Burmese and Thai authorities was probably behind the bomb blasts at a golf course in Tachilek...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A Thai National was among three men in the pickup that caused a citywide electricity blackout in Tachilek, Myanmar, on Saturday, the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai police said Monday they had discovered 10 rocket launchers and grenades they believed were to be smuggled to ethnic minority rebels...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Five people, including two Thais, were injured yesterday when two of nine bombs left at a Myanmar golf course near Chiang Rai...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar authorities have coordinated with their local counterparts to seek cooperation from Thailand in tightening security at the Thai-Myanmar border following two...
Now that Myanmar is opening to the outside world, good luck getting a hotel room. Travelers and eager investors are pouring in to explore one of...
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...
