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How 6 fast-growing Asian countries consume plastic packaging

New report on China, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia

Mekong's water levels fall as new Laos dam begins operations

The water levels in Southeast Asia’s great river have fallen to their lowest in 100 years

Unfair means

Campaign>> FAIRNESS CREAM • Thailand

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It's all in the name

Thai farmers and activists object to a US company's use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety

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Under fire

The International Rice Research Institute accused of biopiracy

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Conservation corridors

Asia to have its first cross-country linkages of fragmented habitats

Checking in Quietly

Bad regulation equals contaminated imports

History in a sheet of sand

Thai government fails to tackle lead pollution in Klity Creek

Government ignores apex court order to clean up creek, one of the worst sites of industrial pollution in Thailand

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Project disaster

A natural gas pipeline which is expected to wind its way through a forest area in western Thailand could jeopardise 14 protected areas and the …

Exploring Mekong expedition

Book>> Mad About The Mekong by John Keay, Exploration and Empire in Southeast Asia Harper Collins London 2005

You’ve got an SMS

Mobile>> Weather Forecast • Thailand

Playing the field

The South should work with NGOs

Walden Bello , co-director, Focus on the Global South, a research institute in Thailand, has done extensive work on the East Asia Miracle Paradigm.…

BONE BAZAAR

Two small border towns, Tachilek in Myanmar and Mae Sai in Thailand, thrive on illegal trade in animal products. ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN …

Thailand poised to become first Southeast Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage

If upper house of parliament approves marriage equality bill, Thailand will be third Asian one to legalise gay marriage

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