– CHIANG RAI – Thirty million people depend for a living on the Mekong, the great Asian river that runs through Southeast Asia from its...
– CHIANG SAEN – Officials from Tambon Wieng Saen Municipality are cleaning up after another landslide happened overnight at Chiang Saen’s Golden Triangle viewpoint. Overnight rains...
– CHANG SAEN – Days Heavy rains have triggered a landslide at Chiang Saen’s tourist area of the Golden Triangle burying several Souvenir shops. Mountain soil,...
– CHIANG RAI – Craftsmen are hard at work in a factory at the foot of Doi Tung mountain in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, part of...
– CHIANG RAI – The United Nations says it sees an escalation in the production and use of amphetamines and synthetic drugs as a new...
– CHIANG RAI – Italy’s Antonio Maria Costa has seen the transformative effect on local ethnic minorities of the Doi Tung project in the Thai highlands...
– CHIANG RAI – For a young Thai with a university degree, fluent English and work experience in the U.S., Walaiporn Phumirat made an unlikely career...
– CHIANG RAI – Descending from China in grand, graceful arcs, the upper Mekong unfurls in a tranquil, lulling sheen. Only battlement ruins to the south...
– BANGKOK – Thai police Monday announced the arrests in central and northern provinces of a dozen drug traffickers allegedly linked to a busted Lao kingpin’s...
– – CHIANG RAI – A patrol of the 31st Rangers Task Force shot and killed 8 drug couriers and seized 700,000 methamphetamine pills and three...
– CHIANG SAEN – The first Chinese cruise boats to visit Thailand on the Mekong River arrived at Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen Pier on Monday evening....
– CHIANG RAI – The Pha Mueang Taskforce and police discovered a million methamphetamine pills on the roadside in Chiang Rai’s Mae Fa Lung district...
– CHIANG RAI – Chinese survey vessels have arrived in Chiang Rai province from southern province of Yunnan reportedly to resume survey of the Mekong...
– CHIANG RAI – Governor, Narongsak Osotthanakon who took office just this month after former Governor Boonsong Techamaneesathit was abruptly transfered under section 44 by...
– CHIANG RAI – Officials in Thailand have ordered that water-throwing activities during Songkran be confined to designated zones in all major provinces. Alcohol is to...
CHIANG RAI -Soldiers from the Pamuang Task Force and local police seized more than 3.5 million speed pills and 9kg of crystal methamphetamine, or “ya...
– Police charged Trin with fraud and obtained an arrest warrant for him on Thursday–CHIANG RAI – It seems Chiang Rai won’t see the worlds largest...
– BANGKOK – Conservationists in Thailand are worried that dredging the Mekong River would destroy ecosystems supporting numerous fish and bird species in the 180km...
. . CHIANG RAI – The Lower Mekong has been a hotspot for mega-projects and developments initiated by the governments of Mekong River Basin countries and...
. . BANGKOK – Thai Narcotics police and customs officials has arrested a 56 year-old Ecuadorian woman after trying to enter Thailand with six jars of...