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The report was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network as part of the “Ground Truths” collaborative reporting project on soils. [1]

Houaphanh Province, LAOS — Bitcoin is a world far away from 19-year-old Chai, an ethnic Hmong and a college student who has never owned a computer. [2]

This article was written with support from the Pulitzer Center. On July 17 last year, an American businessman named Adam Castillo visited the White House. Speaking to advisors of Vice President J.D. [3]

OUDOMXAY & BOKEO, LAOS – Northern Laos is experiencing soil degradation after years of monocropping and widespread chemical use on banana farms operated by Chinese entrepreneurs. [4]

Story by Paritta Wangkiat, Kannikar Petchkeaw and Vo Kieu Bao Uyen This series was produced in partnership with Earth Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center On a humid afternoon in 2022, officials in southern Thailand’s Phang Nga province gathere... [5]

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[1] TH mekongeye.com · 2024-12-16 · 100% match

Fruits of spoil: Laos’ forests disappearing as fruit farms flourish

The report was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network as part of the “Ground Truths” collaborative reporting project on soils.

[2] TH mekongeye.com · 2025-11-17 · 100% match

The lights dim on Laos’ brief Bitcoin dream

Houaphanh Province, LAOS — Bitcoin is a world far away from 19-year-old Chai, an ethnic Hmong and a college student who has never owned a computer.

[3] TH mekongeye.com · 2026-03-09 · 100% match

‘Not for sale’: Rare earths pitch ignites debate over US-Myanmar engagement

This article was written with support from the Pulitzer Center. On July 17 last year, an American businessman named Adam Castillo visited the White House. Speaking to advisors of Vice President J.D.

[4] TH mekongeye.com · 2025-02-17 · 100% match

Banana boom, soil bust

OUDOMXAY & BOKEO, LAOS – Northern Laos is experiencing soil degradation after years of monocropping and widespread chemical use on banana farms operated by Chinese entrepreneurs.

[5] TH mekongeye.com · 95% match

Mekong’s push for responsible rubber and tire production

Story by Paritta Wangkiat, Kannikar Petchkeaw and Vo Kieu Bao Uyen This series was produced in partnership with Earth Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center On a humid afternoon in 2022, officials in southern Thailand’s Phang Nga province gathere

[6] TH mekongeye.com · 95% match

Mekong’s ‘white gold’ rush amid a global EV boom

Story by Mekong Eye’s investigation team This series was produced in partnership with Earth Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center The streets of Laos’ capital Vientiane are lined with billboards promoting Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).

[7] TH mekongeye.com · 95% match

Cash from rubber comes at the cost of Laos’ forests

Story by Vo Kieu Bao Uyen and Konlaphat Siri This series was produced in partnership with Earth Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center When Chinese rubber companies arrived in Leung district of Luang Namtha province in northern Laos, about two de

[8] TH mekongeye.com · 95% match

In Cambodia, our land became their rubber plantation

In Cambodia, our land became their rubber plantation Across the country, rubber plantations built on land concessions are stripping Indigenous communities of their forests Minh Ny and his family reside in a woode

[9] TH mekongeye.com · 95% match

Myanmar’s upland plantations worsen border floods

Story by Kannikar Petchkaew and Vo Kieu Bao Uyen This series was produced in partnership with Earth Journalism Network and the Pulitzer Center On a stormy night in July, muddy torrents swept through Mae Sai, a small town in northern Thailand borderin

[10] TH mekongeye.com · 2023-11-19 · 94% match

A thorny dilemma: Acacia plantations in Vietnam may not be all that green

QUANG NAM, VIETNAM ― The fast-growing and economical acacia has spread in Central Vietnam in response to the global call for wood pellets to replace coal-fired energy. But it has left biodiversity loss and, in some cases, even death in its wake.

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