CHIANG RAI - Residents of Chiang Rai are facing serious pollution on two fronts. Contaminated water and dangerous air. The Pollution Control Department reported that recent checks of the Kok River and nearby waterways still found heavy metals above…

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CHIANG RAI - The Governor of Chiang Rai Province has raised the monitoring level for four major waterways after unhealthy arsenic levels appeared in a small set of sample tests on villagers residing along the Kok River.

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CHIANG RAI -After concerns about arsenic in the Kok River earlier this year, researchers from the Synchrotron Light Research Institute worked with teams from Chiang Rai Rajabhat University and the National Institute of Development Administration…

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CHIANG RAI - The Peoples Network has sent a letter to Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, proposing 10 urgent steps to tackle pollution in the Kok, Sai, Ruak, and Mekong rivers, calling for a shutdown of illegal upstream mines…

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CHIANG RAI - The Chiang Rai Provincial Administrative Organization, the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), led by the National Nanotechnology Center, partnered with the Chiang Rai Provincial Administrative Organization,…

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