. . BANGKOK – At this years Mekong Tourism Investment Summit in Da Nang Vietnam, money matters in Mekong region tourism will be in sharp focus...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Justice Minister Gen. Phaitun Khumchaya and a U.S. charge d’affaires Patrick Murphy have met to discuss many issues including Thailand’s crack-down on human...
CHIANG RAI – Pol Lt Pitpatchara Pitchayanan, Deputy Inspector of Chiang Saen Immigration checkpoint has reported that Belgian National Bramewanden Bozer, 30, was arrested while...
CHIANG RAI – Customs House Authorities in Chiang Kong have reported that many tourist from China have been arriving by car and Chiang Rai police...
CHIANG RAI – After more than 70 vessels ran aground in the Mekong River, Chinese marine department official says China will speed up releasing water...
CHIANG RAI – The newly formed Safe Mekong Coordination Centre (SMCC) authorities from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and China, carried out inspections to observe anti-drug trafficking...
SHANGHAI – Authorities in China have arrested more than 60,000 people for drug-related crimes and seized 11.14 metric tons of narcotics in a vast, multi-city...
CHIANG RAI – Myanmar officials of the Shan State border township of Tachilek said they attended a regional meeting with officials from China, Laos and...
. BANG LAEM – Nearly a decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the...
CHIANG RAI – Commander of the National Police Bureau, Police General Somyote Poompanmuang reported during a press conference that more than one million tablets of...
. . CHIANG RAI – The Governor of Chiang Rai, Phongsak Wangsamer chaired a meeting with Laos and Myanmar to speed up cooperation on special economic...
. . BANGKOK – According to reports from Thailand’s Justice Ministry the Country has become “a narcotics hub” and the Southeast Asian country most affected by...
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...
CHIANG RAI – The Mountain of Doi Tung in Chiang Rai highlands will be ablaze with color next weekend and for once it won’t just...
CHIANG RAI – Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park in Chiang Rai has scheduled to open the second Candlelight Museum, a magnificent exhibition where the...
– CHIANG RAI – Two recent developments show how the war on illicit drugs is literally never-ending. At home, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board...
– – PHUKET – Tiger Kingdom in Phuket has re-opened to the public following the mauling of an Australian man inside one of its enclosures last...
– – CHIANG RAI – The Otto and Fran Walter Foundation has awarded a grant to Friends of Thai Daughters (FTD), a nonprofit organization, preventing child...
– – CHIANG RAI – A patrol from a Army Joint Task Force intercepted two drug smugglers wading across the Mae Sai river and seized 200,000...
YUNNAN – Huge volumes of water being discharged from a hydro-power dam on the Mekong River in southern China’s Yunnan province have placed the country’s...