MYANMAR – Authorities in Myanmar (Burma) have seized 234.32 million baht ($7.3 million) of drugs buried in a forest in the so-called “Golden Triangle”, police...
MYANMAR – In this frontier land in Myanmar, blue-green mountains surround you, wreathed in tendrils of mist and capped with shifting clouds. Water in the...
CHIANG RAI – Poppy cultivation has rapidly expanded in the Myanmar and Laos parts of the Golden Triangle, to feed new demands for heroin, chiefly in...
CHIANG RAI – A Golden Triangle Triathlon that links three Mekong region countries, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, is scheduled for 3 to 4...
CHIANG RAI – Narcotics Control Board Security forces shot and killed, seven suspected drug smugglers and recovered hundreds of thousands of methamphetamine pills (Yaba) after a...
Born just a few weeks ago on March 3, Nong Sam is the fifth son of indigenous elephant Boon Jan CHIANG RAI – It’s a...
CHIANG RAI – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and the Mae Fah Luang Foundation proudly present an enticing tourist attraction in the glorious province...
CHIANG RAI – The United Nations says opium production in Myanmar continued to increase in 2013, in part because poppy farmers had few other ways to...
BANGKOK – Methamphetamine use in south-east Asia fuelling rise in HIV risk, report reveals ‘Urgent’ action called for as fears grow over users injecting drugs...
Embellishing English by Barry Evans CHIANG RAI – Once when the world was young — 1978 to be more precise — I headed out alone from...
CHIANG RAI – Laos has opened a Chinatown market in Bokeo province near the lawless Golden Triangle in a bid to draw more trade and...
CHIANGRAI – A Thai police gunboat prowls the waters of the Mekong River searching for the drug gangs that haunt this territory deep in the...
BEIJING -Drugs smuggled from the Golden Triangle region (comprising parts of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar) account for 60 to 70 percent of all drugs that...
CHIANG RAI – The new Golden Triangle permanent border checkpoint in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen district – which has just been opened is seen as...
CHAING RAI – Laotian anti-narcotics agents Friday seized a cargo boat on the Mekong River along with 22 million amphetamine tablets found hidden on board,...
CHIANGRAI – Green Globe announces re-certification of the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort & Spa in Chiang Rai, in Thailand. For years Anantara’s Chiang Rai Resort...
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...
CHIANGRAI– It wasn’t that long ago that throughout Southeast Asia the term Golden Triangle was associated with just one thing: opium trafficking. For those fighting...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A Chinese court Wednesday upheld death sentences of four people convicted in the 2011 killing of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong...
CHIANGRAI – This year Anantara Golden Triangle Resort & Spa,Chiang Rai, is in a festive mood with their very own traditional Christmas celebrations, Thai style....