– BEIJING – Officials from southwest China’s Yunnan province have defended a plan to build a dam in the region as “fully legally compliant”, after...
. . BANGKOK – As millions of people pour into East Asia’s cities each year, the region’s governments face the pressing task of easing the enormous...
. . CHIANG KHONG -Â Dismissing its neighbors’ pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia’s...
. . LOWER MEKONG – Lush greenery in the lower Mekong region sprawls as far as the eye can see, an illustration of just how fertile...
. . The lower three Mekong Countries, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam as well as environmental groups, have expressed concern about the Don Sahong dam’s impact on...
. . For years I’ve been an advocate of allowing Thai farmers to grow hemp. Hemp is the same plant family as pot. Pot can get...
CHIANG RAI – Final stage construction has begun on the $3.5bn Xayaburi dam in a remote part of northern Laos, the first dam to span...
– BANGKOK – Arjun, an ethnic Gurkha immigrant to Thailand from Myanmar, has sold counterfeit watches for years on the street outside tailors’ shops in Bangkok’s...
CHIANG RAI – Nearly 50 environmental groups have written to the leaders of countries along the Mekong River to revamp a regional official evaluation process...
CHIANG RAI – The Save the Mekong Coalition (SMC) has written to the Prime Ministers of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam voicing concerns over the...
CHIANG RAI – The Mekong River runs more than 4,000 kilometers, from China into Myanmar and then through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, where it empties...
CHIANG RAI – A summit of four countries bordering the Mekong River has led to calls for greater cooperation managing the river’s vital water resources....
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Laos says it will officially launch construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam project on the Mekong River this week despite objections from...
Chiangrai Times – Fishermen bring their boats to shore, pack away their traps and hand over the day’s catch to their awaiting families on the...
Chiangrai Times – Thai opponents of a planned multi-billion dollar dam in Laos submitted a lawsuit to a court in Bangkok on Tuesday seeking to...
Chiangrai Times – The inhabitants of Ban Pak Ing Tai, a leafy village in Thailand’s far north nestled between the mighty Mekong River and one...
Tourist Police Sign in Phuket Thailand Chiangrai Times – The Island of Phuket is one of Southeast Asia’s premier vacation spots, with an average of...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will officially unveil the “Miracle Year of Amazing Thailand” initiative, a mega-campaign to celebrate the birthdays...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Despite reservations from Mekong Basin countries, construction continues over the opposition of environmental groups and the governments of other countries in the...
Laos has suspended a $3.5 billion dam project on the lower Mekong River while Japan leads a study into the environmental impact, after activists and...