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Toxic Tides: Rare Earth Mining in Myanmar is Poisoning Chiang Rai’s Rivers

CHIANG RAI – Thai and Myanmar citizens are desperately sounding the alarm over a growing environmental catastrophe. Toxic runoff from heavy rare earth mining at Myanmar’s headwaters is severely poisoning major international waterways. This lethal chemical pollution flows directly into the Kok, Sai, Ruak, and Mekong rivers. Despite mounting public outrage, the “Anutin 2” government […]

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Poisoned Rivers: How China’s Demand for Rare Earths is Killing Thailand’s Waterways

CHIANG RAI – In late 2025, a series of disturbing photos and videos flooded social media. They showed fishermen in northern Thailand holding up their daily catch from the tributaries of the Mekong River. The fish were covered in deep, red lesions. Some had physical deformities, with twisted spines and missing scales. At first, local […]

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Mekong River Faces Contaminations from Chinese Rare Earth Mines in Myanmar’s Shan State

CHIANG RAI - The Shan State and people living along the Mekong River are facing new environmental risks as rare earth and manganese mines grow in number in Myanmar.

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