Myanmar’s Unrest Triggers Rise in Golden Triangle Drug Trade
By CTN News Chiang Rai Times Wed, June 2, 2021 As Myanmar slumps deeper into chaos, and armed rebel groups hunt money to stockpile guns to fight the army known […]
Thailand – Believe it or not rain falls after Chachoengsao villagers build enormous phallus in religious rain-making ceremony
By Goong Nang(GN) PATTAYA NEWS Saturday, 12 June 2021 PHOTO: screen capture from Koson Samang CHACHOENGSAO – An enormous phallus which was built on a small dead-end road as a […]
Vaccine passports expected to be hot topic at ASEAN Summit
Sar Socheath Khmer Times Thu, June 10, 2021 The Thai Ministry of Public Health shows a sample of a Covid-19 vaccine passport. Bangkok Post Some prominent Cambodian think-tank intellectuals have […]
Covid Restrictions Fail to Slow Expansion of Synthetic Drug Production in Southeast Asia
By Latsamy Phonevilay THE LAOTIAN TIMES Thu, Jun 10, 2021 “Authorities in Bangkok, Thailand display a large crystal methamphetamine seizure from the Golden Triangle concealed in Chinese tea bags totaling […]
Global Medical Charity MSF Told to Close Operation in Myanmar’s South
By The Irrawaddy Wed, June 09, 2021 MSF in Myanmar. / MSF Myanmar Facebook Myanmar’s regime has suspended the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) operations in Dawei, Tanintharyi Region, […]
Factories Shuttered in Myanmar’s First Special Economic Zone Amid Post-Coup Turmoil
By The Irrawaddy Wed, June 09, 2021 Thilawa Special Economic Zone in Yangon’s Thanlyin Township. / MJTD Almost a quarter of all factories in the Japan-backed Thilawa Special Economic Zone […]
Myanmar’s National Unity Government ‘Deeply Concerned’ With China
By The Irrawaddy Tue, June 08, 2021 Myanmar military chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meet in Naypyitaw on Tuesday. / Tatmadaw Information Team NAYPYITAW […]
Myanmar Junta to Sell More Timber in Search for Hard Currency
By The Irrawaddy Mon, June 8, 2021 Illegal timber seized under the NLD government. / Forest Department Myanmar’s military regime will hold further timber auctions on June 23 and 24 […]
Cambodia’s last great forest in Oddar Meanchey under attack, more resources needed
Son Minea / Khmer Times Tue, June 8, 2021 Bun Saluth, a government-appointed protector of Sang Rukhavoan Community Forest in Oddar Meanchey province. Facebook Sang Rukhavoan Community Forest in Oddar […]
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