Laos is pushing ahead with the Luang Prabang dam hydropower project on the Mekong River, despite reservations aired by neighbouring...
Thailand’s Narcotics Control Board has reported that heroin is making a comeback in Thailand with teenagers, who are unaware of the dangers. The Office of the...
Marijuana was used the most, followed by methamphetamine, crystal methamphetamine, opium, heroin and morphine.
On the first day the Education Ministry online school program many poor children missed out as they had no access to a smartphone or internet to...
A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warns that the synthetic drugs market in East and Southeast Asia continues to...
"Countries in the Asia-Pacific are among the world’s top plastic polluters. Eight of the ten rivers responsible for up to 95 per cent of plastic waste...
"China has funded numerous hydropower projects inside Laos, and it has built 11 dams on the upper reaches of the Mekong River"
Thailand has called for a joint study with China and neighboring Mekong countries to determine what caused a devastating drought in the Lower Mekong Basin last...
China’s Mekong River dams held back huge amounts of water during a damaging drought effecting downstream countries last year. Even more China had higher-than-average water levels...
Empower Foundation, an organization promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers in Thailand has written a letter to the government pleading for help. “Many…are mothers and...
Normally serene Thailand has been on edge since a rogue soldier went on the rampage in a northeastern city this month. Killing 29 people in a...
Government officials and university researchers from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam gathered to discuss assessment methodologies to study plastic debris and its sources across the Mekong....
Thai exporters of coconut milk say they are being spurned by prospective buyers in the E.U. and U.S.because monkeys are used to gather the coconuts. Thailand...
Mekong River Commission researcher say the record-low water level may be caused by low regional rainfall. Even more climate change which is turning the weather hotter...
Dams in China are choking the Mekong a waterway on which millions depend for their livelihoods.
When a woman loses her husband, she is called a widow, or when she as a child she loses a parents, she’s is called an orphan....
Water levels on the Mekong River, which flows through China and five other countries have dropped once again. The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has warned of...
Snakes are a part of life in Thailand and nearly 40,000 homes are invaded by snakes each year in Bangkok alone. Even though fewer than a...
"The bullies are aggressive and do not feel guilty. They tend to use violence to solve problems and might become criminals. Even more the victims can...
After an American man embarked on a working trip to Thailand in 2007 that ended with his behind bars for five years. American Jesse Moskel,spent five...
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