CHIANG RAI – South Korean NGOs face a dilemma over how to rescue 64 North Koreans held by Myanmar rebels and forced to work on...
MYANMAR – A recent peace initiative in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State could play a key role in poppy eradication in a country which is the...
AYUTTHAYA – Thai authorities incinerated 10 billion baht worth of narcotics on Wednesday in a bid to tackle their reputations as hubs for illicit substances...
BEIJING – Asian powers are outpacing the United States to become the biggest spenders on defense by 2021 and are fuelling an “explosion” in the...
MYANMAR – In the Western stereotype, Buddhists are meditating pacifists who strive to keep their distance from worldly passions. But last month, more than 40...
CHIANG RAI -Thailand, China and the four other Mekong Region nations vowed on Thursday to boost cooperation in the fight against illegal drugs, which they...
PATTANI – The Pattani rebellion has been raging in Thailand for years — but what drives these militants? Krue Se Mosque is just outside the...
PHUKET – Lee Aldhouse a UK kickboxer suspected of murdering a US marine in Thailand has been accused of fighting with fellow prisoners. Aldhouse who...
FANG – It was about 7 pm when the sun set and darkness descended on northern Thailand. A group of teenagers, aged 13 to 17,...
THON MIN YAR – Deep in the lawless mountains of the Golden Triangle, sloping fields of illegal poppies have just been scraped dry for opium....
XINJIANG – Northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region cracked 1,929 drugs cases last year, regional government authorities said Monday. In 2012, Xinjiang police seized...
BANGKOK – The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) hosted a meeting with the INCB at its Bangkok headquarters. Ambassadors from around 20 countries...
BANGKOK – A British couple who have been cycling around the world have been killed in a crash in Bangkok. Peter Root and Mary Thompson,...
BANGKOK – According to the Nation Newspaper an average of US$6.42 billion (Bt192.6 billion) a year illegally flowed out of Thailand between 2001 and 2010...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Make no mistake. Tigers have gone extinct in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Singapore, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the islands of Bali...
PHUKET – Thai prosecutors have indicted British kickboxer, Lee Aldhouse on murder charges in connection with the 2010 stabbing of a former U.S. Marine on a...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Re-elected US President Barack Obama now has four more years to extend US influence with the superpower in waiting, China. President Obama...
CHIANGRAI– Opium cultivation in Southeast Asia’s main poppy-growing countries has more than doubled over the past six years driven largely by rising heroin demand in...
Chiangrai Times – A former opium addict has described his 20-year love affair with the drug and the vomit therapy that cured him in a...
Chiangrai Times – Thailand’s military, narcotics bureau, airports and other security forces bought 1,576 fake “bomb detectors” for $30 million, investigators said, which the army...