THAILAND

All that glisters is not gold

Spectrum, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 01/04/2018

» More than a year after the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) used Section 44 -- the special executive order in the interim charter -- to close Chatree gold mine in the Central Plains region at the beginning of January 2017, conflicts centred on pollution and disputes between the state and the gold mining company are far from over.