2008

Images — by admin — last modified 2008-02-27 01:40

 

Druglord behind yesterday’s attack on Chinese boat — by admin — last modified 2008-02-28 01:23

Naw Kham, who has been on the run on drug charges since 10 January 2006, is reportedly the mastermind of yesterday’s surprise attack on a Chinese maritime police boat on the Mekong, according to reports from the border.

Junta demands, paid poppy tax — by admin — last modified 2008-03-01 12:22

Local authorities are encouraging people to plant poppies and then collecting taxes from villagers in Mongkeung Township, according to reports from Southern Shan State.

The war of figures continues — by admin — last modified 2008-03-04 01:03

In January 1987, Thailand’s drug czar Chavalit Yodmanee was asked by Bangkok Post about Mong Tai Army leader Khun Sa’s claim that some 900 tons of opium would be produced in Shan State for the 1986-87 season.

Mongla casinos doomed but that’s no big deal — by admin — last modified 2008-03-12 06:40

More than a year after they were newly inaugurated in April 2006, casinos in Mongla, Burma’s Las Vegas, have been seeing better days since new gambling establishments popped up late last year in the neighboring Laotian town of Boten, Luang Nam Tha Province, according to sources from Kengtung.

Forced relocations genesis to Mekong shooting — by admin — last modified 2008-03-12 08:53

Latest findings by Thai investigators indicated that the most plausible cause for the attack on a Chinese police patrol boat on 25 February was the forced relocation of Laotian villagers by the $200 million casino project launched by Chinese financiers earlier this year, according to senior security officials on the triangle.

Changed titles change druglord’s status little — by admin — last modified 2008-03-31 08:47

Wei Xuegang, a Chinese-Wa leader who is wanted both in Thailand and the United States, swapped offices with his deputy in the finance ministry in November, but that had done very little to alter his standing among his peers, according to Hawkeye who recently returned to the border.

Wa farmers demand return to poppy cultivation — by admin — last modified 2008-04-23 05:02

A growing number of impoverished farmers in the Wa region on the Sino-Burma has been calling on the Wa authorities to allow a return to poppy culture that was suspended almost 3 years ago, according to both official and unofficial sources.

Rubber fields forever for Wa? — by admin — last modified 2008-04-24 05:44

There are some 600,000 acres of rubber plantations in the Wa-controlled areas both on the Chinese and Thai borders but they are still not sufficient to sustain the Wa farmers who were forced by their leadership to quit the 120 year old poppy culture in 2005, according to a Wa official who requested anonymity.