The Plumtree Town Council has imposed restrictions on alluvial mining as it moves to instil order in the area. Statutory Instrument 145 of 2025 states that no one should permit any work having a ...

A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, ...

The Supreme Court has prohibited new mining leases in the Aravali hills to protect them from desertification, while allowing existing operations to continue. The court mandated the preparation of a ...

According to the Washington-based Stimson Center, the past decade has seem a spike in unregulated mining activity in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. The Salween River in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son province, ...

New research shows over 2,400 mines along mainland Southeast Asia rivers Mines may be releasing deadly chemicals into river water, says Stimson Center think-tank Many rare earths mines operate with ...

For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok River, which flows down from neighbouring Myanmar before joining with the ...

Toxic Mines Put Southeast Asia's Rivers, People at Risk, Study Says By Napat Wesshasartar and Devjyot Ghoshal THA TON, Thailand (Reuters) -For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has ...

Communities along Cambodia’s O’Ta Bouk River are experiencing severe water contamination, skin ailments and the collapse of fish stocks, which they blame on an unregulated gold mine operating upstream ...

THA TON, Thailand: For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok River, which flows down from neighbouring Myanmar before ...

THA TON, Thailand – For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with water from the Kok River, which flows down from neighbouring Myanmar before ...

For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok River, which flows down from neighbouring Myanmar before joining with the ...