As conflict disrupts key border routes, the China-backed Kenglat post on the Mekong has gained new prominence as one of the junta’s few functioning trade gateways.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered a temporary ban on the export of several types of fuel and liquefied petroleum ...

Selina Ho discusses the Chinese government’s efforts to combat criminal operations that are harming its image and reputation in the Mekong region. A sign in Sop Ruak, Thailand, marking the point where ...

Trump's new tariffs give China room to play the foil to the US and bolster its hold on a region it values. Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar hold great strategic value for China as it seeks to expand its ...

Over 2,400 illegal mines in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia are poisoning the Mekong River with arsenic and cyanide, driven by global rare earth demand.

The Salween River in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son province, where it forms a portion of the border with Myanmar. Mainland Southeast Asia is at risk from a proliferation of unregulated mining operations ...

In foreign policy as in everything else, the new “civilian” government will only be the old junta in new clothes, observers predict.