- Invasive fish
For years, an invasive fish has been devastating fisheries along Thailand’s coast. Now it has reached the country’s interior for the first time – and no one is sure how far it has already spread.
- by Pratch Rujivanarom
- 3 min read
- Sompong Wiangchan
Built on promises that were never kept, the Pak Mun Dam devastated a riverside community. More than three decades later, one woman refuses to let Thailand forget.
- by Nicha Wachpanich
- 7 min read
- Love and resistance
He’s the calm strategist. She’s the one who takes the front line. For twenty years, Ornuch and Pramote Phonpinyo have split the work of running one of the country’s most enduring land rights networks.
- by Veerapong Soontornchattrawat
- 19 min read
- Natural Resources
- Hazardous chemicals
- by Pratch Rujivanarom
- Land Rights
- Land rights
- by Kong Sreyrath
- Natural Resources
- Carbon credits
- by Nicha Wachpanich
- Environmental Justice
- Southern Economic Corridor
- by Nicha Wachpanich
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- Mother Nature
Five Mother Nature activists are serving sentences up to eight years in Cambodia’s prisons. Their wives, siblings, and children were not charged, but they are paying anyway.
- by Phoung Vantha
- 9 min read
- NEWS
- Mines in Myanmar
What began as a contamination crisis on a northern tributary has reached the Mekong’s northeastern stretch, with lab results now confirming heavy metals in deformed fish hundreds of kilometres downstream.
- by Pratch Rujivanarom
- 3 min read
- NEWS
- Coal Mining
A Karen community in Chiang Mai’s Omkoi district spent seven years challenging a coal mine approved without their knowledge, and won a court order freezing it. The final ruling is still pending.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 4 min read
- FEATURE
- Rare Earth
The rivers that sustained life in Thailand’s northern borderlands for generations are now carrying poison – the byproduct of a mining boom feeding the world’s appetite for tech products.
- by Pratch Rujivanarom
- 11 min read
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A Bangkok court has ordered Thailand’s largest gold mine to compensate nearly 400 villagers for cyanide contamination, but the mine remains open and the legal battle is far from over.
- by Nicha Wachpanich
- 3 min read
Nget Khun, 86, has protested outside Cambodia’s courts for nearly two decades, ever since her lakeside home was taken. Her daughter Eng Sokha just finished a year in prison for breaking a window during a protest. Neither plans to stop their activism.
- by Meng Kroypunlok
Cambodia grants Economic Land Concessions on state property. But much of that land is Indigenous territory – unrecognised because communities can’t navigate the title process. An explainer on how the system enables displacement.
- by Eung Sea
- 7 min read
Thailand’s national parks have a complication the maps didn’t show: people. Thousands of families have settled on forest land, only to find themselves declared encroachers when officials later drew park boundaries around their homes. After decades of evictions, one village has found a solution.
- by Veerapong Soontornchattrawat
- 21 min read
Thailand is forming a fourth committee to resolve a longstanding Karen land dispute – this time with an ethnic rights law previous panels lacked.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 4 min read
The Urak Lawoi of Thailand’s Koh Lipe once produced virtually no waste. Now their community manages a daily logistics operation – sorting, loading, and barging ten tonnes of mostly tourist rubbish to a mainland landfill.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 2 min read
