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CHIANG RAI – Myanmar’s anti-drug forces have dealt a major blow to the narcotics trade. On March 24, 2026, security personnel raided a large drug production camp hidden in a forest in Tachileik Township, in eastern Shan State. [1]
CHIANG RAI – The Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration DASTA, together with Chiang Rai Province, GISTDA and UNIDO, recently brought together government and local groups to discuss plans for a new project: “Building Climate-Adapted C... [2]
The government of Laos has ordered online scammers to vacate a special economic zone in the northwest of the country, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier this week. [3]
Lao and Chinese security forces have detained 771 people in a special economic zone in the country’s northwest, ahead of a deadline for online scam operations to cease their operations inside the zone. [4]
CHIANG RAI / GOLDEN TRIANGLE – An unexpected surge in oil exports through the Golden Triangle and [5]
Mizzima American journalist and non-fiction writer Patrick Winn in a Podcast interview with “Insight Myanmar” stresses it is important how we assess the challenge of the illegal narcotics trade in Myanmar and in the Golden Triangle as a whole. [6]
The Office of the Narcotics Control Board teams up with international organizations to block the supply of pseudoephedrine, a narcotic precursor, to the Golden Triangle which has sent 11 tons of crystal methamphetamine, aka “ice”, to Australia. [7]
THE MEKONG RIVER — The Lao People’s Army patrol boat was custom-made in China with night-vision capability and two of the most powerful engines on this remote stretch of the Mekong River. (confirmed by 2 sources) [8]
CHIANG RAI – Myanmar’s anti-drug forces have dealt a major blow to the narcotics trade. On March 24, 2026, security personnel raided a large drug production camp hidden in a forest in Tachileik Township, in eastern Shan State.
CHIANG RAI – The Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration DASTA, together with Chiang Rai Province, GISTDA and UNIDO, recently brought together government and local groups to discuss plans for a new project: “Building Climate-Adapted C
The government of Laos has ordered online scammers to vacate a special economic zone in the northwest of the country, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier this week.
Lao and Chinese security forces have detained 771 people in a special economic zone in the country’s northwest, ahead of a deadline for online scam operations to cease their operations inside the zone.
CHIANG RAI / GOLDEN TRIANGLE – An unexpected surge in oil exports through the Golden Triangle and
Mizzima American journalist and non-fiction writer Patrick Winn in a Podcast interview with “Insight Myanmar” stresses it is important how we assess the challenge of the illegal narcotics trade in Myanmar and in the Golden Triangle as a whole.
The Office of the Narcotics Control Board teams up with international organizations to block the supply of pseudoephedrine, a narcotic precursor, to the Golden Triangle which has sent 11 tons of crystal methamphetamine, aka “ice”, to Australia.
THE MEKONG RIVER — The Lao People’s Army patrol boat was custom-made in China with night-vision capability and two of the most powerful engines on this remote stretch of the Mekong River.
Deputy House Speaker Suchart Tancharoen has called for the government to speed up the development of Chiang Rai as a specia
In a jungle clearing deep inside Southeast Asia's opium-growing Golden Triangle, four young men light incense sticks and kneel to pray before a bronze statue of an imposing figure astride a horse.