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Thailand says mines in Myanmar are leaching toxic water downstream into the Kok River which runs between the two countries. That's after alarmingly high levels of arsenic were discovered in the river.
Water tests from the Kok and Sai rivers near Thailand’s border with Myanmar have revealed elevated arsenic levels, leading ...
As monsoon rains flooded the Irrawaddy's riverbanks in northern Myanmar, social media users shared an AI-generated video but ...
Sui Khar, the vice-chairman of the Chin National Front (CNF), says that Myanmar’s civil war is approaching a tipping point, ...
A sprawling new mine is gouged into the lush rolling hills of northeast Myanmar, where civil war has weakened the ...
Dangerous levels of arsenic in a northern Thai river contaminated by chemicals used in mines across the border in Myanmar risk unleashing an unprecedented ecological disaster on the kingdom’s ...
Around 200 ethnic Karen people fled fighting in Myanmar and crossed the border into ... leading some to cross the Moei border river to Tak province.
Thai authorities are awaiting a response from Myanmar about potential cooperation in tackling toxic contamination affecting the Kok River, a water source for downstream communities in Chiang Mai.
Hough: Right. The Irrawaddy River is the main river system that runs north to south [through Myanmar]. It’s a huge drainage system, and there’s a huge river delta there. They get monsoonal ...
A powerful earthquake struck Southeast Asia on Friday, killing over 140 people in Myanmar and injuring hundreds as authorities in Thailand searched for dozens of people trapped under the rubble of ...
Photo from Benjamin Jones, UnSplash A pair of Irrawaddy dolphins — an extremely rare river species — were recently rescued along the coast of Myanmar. The two animals — a mother and her ...