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Toxic rivers need help
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/05/2025
» The government's reaction to heavy metal contamination in transboundary rivers in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces has left local villagers in despair. Almost three months after heavy metal contamination was recently detected in such rivers, our officials and ministers are still just at the stage of warning people not to consume water and fish from the Kok River in the North.
Time to tackle toxic spill
News, Editorial, Published on 15/04/2025
» As the problem of scammer gangs in Myawaddy, Myanmar, tapers off, another serious transboundary problem emerged with the Pollution Control Department, under the Environmental Ministry, issuing a ban on April 4 against the use of water in the Kok River, which runs from Myanmar into Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai provinces.
The abusive golden rule
News, Editorial, Published on 24/10/2018
» The rate of human rights violations has long been atrocious, and under successive governments, elected as well as dictatorial. Arguably, no group has been more abused than the residents of Wang Saphung district of Loei province. They have been bounced from pillar to post -- quite literally at times. Their tormentors and attackers have ranged from slick legal authorities to arrogant bureaucrats. At one point 200 armed men attacked and battered villagers for the "crimes" of opposing a gold mine operation while exercising their rights.