BEIJING – Drugs worth more than $400 million have been seized in a two-month multinational operation targeting crime along the Mekong River, China’s drug enforcement...
FANG – It was about 7 pm when the sun set and darkness descended on northern Thailand. A group of teenagers, aged 13 to 17,...
CHIANGRAI – The clash between Thai authorities and drug smugglers in which four suspects were killed on Sunday took place on the Thai-Myanmar border where...
CHIANGRAI – Pol General Pongpat Pongcharoen has told the news that Thai Drug Enforcement agencies launched a joint operation, raiding 50 targeted locations in the...
CHIANGRAI – In October last year 13 bodies—blindfolded, hands tied, showing bullet wounds—were found floating in the Mekong river in northern Thailand. They were identified...
Chiangrai Times – A notorious ethnic Shan warlord, Naw Kham, has gone on trial in the southern Chinese city of Kunming, charged with the murder...
Chiangrai Times – Laos and Thailand will send relevant personnel to China on Thursday to testify in a trial concerning a deadly attack that left...
Chiangrai Times – The story begins at the start of 2011, when two Chinese cargo ships refused to pay protection money to a large drug-trafficking...
Chiangrai Times – Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and China have launched their fifth joint Mekong River patrol on Monday. The Patrols are in an effort to...
Aung Myat second in command in the Burmese drug gang believed to be connected to the murder of nine Chinese sailors on the Mekong River on...
Chiangrai Times – Sources with the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday that Lao police had interrogated a drug lord in China who is...
Chiangrai Times – Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has assured China that investigations into the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River last...
Chiangrai Times – Myanmar authorities have seized large quantities of heroin and speed pills and arrested four suspects during raids on areas under the control...
Chiangrai Times – ChiangRai Royal Thai Police have issued arrest warrants for nine soldiers in connection with the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the...
Chiangrai Times – Three people have been shot and killed on-board a long-tailed boat in an outbreak of violence on the Mekong River. The victims,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Approximately 30 members of a Golden Triangle drug gang whose leader was arrested in Laos and sent to China have turned themselves...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand’s Deputy PM Chalerm Yubamrung let slip recently that Karen rebel leader Maj Gen Na Kham Mwe, who controls territory along Burma’s...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Naw Kham suspected drug kingpin who allegedly masterminded the murder of 13 Chinese fishermen on the Mekong River in October was handed...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A thin line divides tourism, trade and terror in the Golden Triangle, where the lawless borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet....
The early October massacre of 13 Chinese barge crew on the Mekong River near the tri-border of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar has thrust the lawless...