The U.S. has blamed Chinese state-owned companies for engage in predatory business practices in the Mekong River region. U.S. Secretary...
Building on a relationship spanning two centuries, Thailand and the United States took an important step forward to work even closer together. Elevating our already strong...
In recent months, Thai student protesters and other activists have staged a series of escalating protests in Thailand against the Government. The demonstrations initially focused on...
Thailand and its neighbours in the Golden Triangle have experienced a continuous expansion of drug production, trafficking and use, particularly of synthetic drugs, for the better...
UN Women in law enforcement, participate at all levels and in all roles, law enforcement is more responsive to, and reflective of, the community it serves....
Soi Dog Foundation is appealing for any foreign nationals from European and North American destinations who are repatriating soon to come forward as potential flight volunteers...
The Mekong River Commission said Mekong countries should implement drought plans and request that water storage operators release more water and instigators use less of it.
The Mighty Mekong River has become a new battle front in US-China rivalry, environmentalists and officials say. China is overtaking the United States in both spending...
Laos is pushing ahead with the Luang Prabang dam hydropower project on the Mekong River, despite reservations aired by neighbouring countries. Especially over its potential to...
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....
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