Maj Gen Sawarat also said the seized meth pills had an approximate value of about 500 million baht on the black market.
Government officials and university researchers from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam gathered to discuss assessment methodologies to study plastic debris and its sources across the Mekong....
Mekong River Commission researcher say the record-low water level may be caused by low regional rainfall. Even more climate change which is turning the weather hotter...
The Mekong, the world’s 12th-longest river, stretches 4,350 km from China in the north to Vietnam in the south. It hosts at least 270 species of...
Dams in China are choking the Mekong a waterway on which millions depend for their livelihoods.
Water levels on the Mekong River, which flows through China and five other countries have dropped once again. The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has warned of...
Water levels on the Mekong River have dropped to about one meter in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom. The rivers drop comes as the worst...
Thailand’s Department of Water Resources has warned eight provinces on the Mekong river to prepare for water shortages. Chinese cargo ships have now stopped operating on...
According to Mr Somkiat, Chiang Rai will start see water levels drop on the Mekong between Jan 2-5, while Ubon Ratchathani will see the impact between...
China has closed a 60-kilometre section of Mekong River to all types of boats indefinitely while rock blasting is undertaken. The blasting is to widen the...
A confluence of drought and dams along the Mekong River has renewed concerns about the future of the 4,700-kilometer waterway. Upon which tens of millions of...
The Mighty Mekong River has recently acquired an aquamarine colour that may beguile tourists but also indicates a problem caused by upstream dams in China, experts...
The Thai government has also implemented a measure to reduce the demand for drugs in the country. This comes as new producers keep on emerging regardless...
Shipments of methamphetamine have moved from Thailand to Malaysia and then other parts of Asia. There have been pronounced volume of methamphetamine to Lao, to circumvent...
A report published by Cambodia's Interior Ministry stated that over 250,000 Chinese nationals currently reside in the country. This is over 60% of all foreign residents...
Dozens of hydroelectric dams are lowering levels and damaging a fragile ecosystem for the lower Mekong River basin.
BANGKOK – The United States has expressed concern over Chinese dam building, dredging and other activities on the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, calling them “troubling...
BANGKOK – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized China’s dam-building on the Mekong River. Environmentalists have called the dam building irresponsible and a total...
BANGKOK – China’sForeign Minister Wang Yi, has pledged that China will help Thailand manage water in the Mekong River that it now completely controls. China just...
CHIANG RAI – By this time of year, the Mekong River should have been rising steadily with the monsoon rains, bringing fishermen a bounty of fat...