On December 7-8th, the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam will meet and are likely to decide if the controversial Xayaburi Dam will go...
An international petition from more than 100 countries is calling for the Laos and Thai governments to cancel a massive hydropower dam project on the...
Thailand will not oppose construction of the Xayaburi dam in Laos but Vientiane must take responsibility if the project causes any environmental damage, Natural Resources...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand’s devastating floods swept over a third of the country in recent weeks, killing hundreds and turning hundreds of thousands into refugees...
Authorities grappling with Thailand’s worst flooding in decades are now facing the potential spread of disease as contaminated waters spread deeper into Bangkok. Aid workers say...
With no money or identity documents and stranded in a foreign land for days on end without food and water, they are the forgotten people...
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra acknowledged her government could not control the approaching deluge The floods, the heaviest in Thailand in more than half a century,...
For more than three decades, I have been involved with numerous natural resource projects in North America, Africa and Asia, meeting many interesting (and sometimes...
United States Marines arrived in Bangkok Saturday with equipment, sandbags and other relief supplies. The U.S. ambassador to Thailand, Kristie Kenney, said the Marines...
One day before China’s National Day celebration, Myanmar’s President Thein Sein called a halt to the on-going Myitsone hydroelectric dam project that was being...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, will pay her first official visit to Myanmar “in the near future,” the Burmese state-run New Light of...
People in the Northeast and Central Plains have been told to brace for further flooding as dams which near bursting point are forced to release...
Myanmar’s nominal civilian government has suspended a controversial $3.6 billion hydroelectric power project which has faced objections from various social strata nationwide, according to the...
Thailand’s rivers are being increasingly polluted by industrial waste-water and solid waste dumping, but activists and residents say the Thai government has no clear strategy for...
Human rights activists are reporting an increased incidence of rape against Kachin women in areas of recent military attacks by government forces in northern Myanmar....
Neda was established in 2005 with the aim of helping neighboring countries in terms of trade, investment, land, sea and air transport networks, tourism and...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Conservationists expressed surprise yesterday at the announcement that construction of the Xayaburi dam, on the Mekong River in northern Laos, could begin...
CHIANG RAI TIMES – Environmental activists say Chinese firms are pushing ahead with construction of the controversial Myitsone dam even though fighting is going on...
As debate goes on about whether Thailand should have its first nuclear power plant, Korea Electricity Power Corporation (Kepco) warns that any such development will...
A geothermal power plant is also in the picture as the Energy Ministry is seeking to stabilise energy security in light of strong public resistance...