The government is predicting a $3 billion cannabis industry by 2027, but who will benefit?
'If [the] Thai government sends them back to China, it’s like we send them to death,' says opposition lawmaker Rangsiman Rome.
Thailand is facing wide criticism for legalizing cannabis before putting sturdy guardrails against its abuse in place, and doubts authorities can do much to stem likely rise in its recreational use
Rights groups are only cautiously optimistic, having seen similar plans falter
Analysts say the coming rains will bog down the army’s ground forces and hobble its air support for the next few months
In its latest report on the region’s synthetic drug trade, the UNODC says local drug gangs keep adapting, expanding and scaling up
Thailand says it is ready to negotiate a long-term cease-fire with Muslim separatist rebels after only one insurgent attack during the holy month.
Researchers say both countries cut their primary forest losses for a fifth straight year, but worry mounting forces could soon start driving losses up again.
Move quickly condemned by military regime that seized control of country’s government last year
The Karen National Union denies claims by the US DEA that its armed wing planned to trade heroin for arms, including surface-to-air missiles
A tenuous truce and new framework for talks between the Thai government and separatist rebels is raising hopes of real progress toward a lasting peace
Disappointed by UN’s response to junta’s alleged atrocities, Myanmar Accountability Project hopes to see junta leaders on trial in Turkey’s courts
China’s construction of a $402 million submarine for Thailand has stalled over German’s refusal to export the engines Beijing promised
Myanmar’s military junta is still struggling to hold much of the countryside more than a year after its coup, and faces mounting attacks in some urban areas, analysts say
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says armed groups 'on both sides' of Myanmar’s conflict have been spreading record volumes of meth over much of Asia since last year’s coup
Myanmar ethnic minority communities in US, elsewhere pouring hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of dollars into guerrilla war against junta
Seksakol Atthawong, a vice minister in the prime minister’s office, says he has 1 million signatures on a petition to kick the human rights group out of Thailand
News reports triggering suit ask whether Azam Baki’s shareholdings were properly declared, wheth
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