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• Ecology, climate (Thailand)

  Chiang Mai (Northern Thailand): Thai activists claim victory over luxury housing on forest land

  6 May 2018, by Reuters

  Government bows to protesters and agrees to shelve development near Chiang Mai.
  Environmental activists in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai claimed victory on Sunday after the country’s military government agreed not to continue the development of luxury property on forest land.
  The (...)

• Ecology, climate (Thailand)

  Chiang Mai (Northern Thailand): Hundreds of Thais protest, defying military ban

  29 April 2018, by Al Jazeera

  Government luxury housing project draws ire of northern Thais with one of the largest protests since 2014 military coup.
  More than 1,000 people demonstrated in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai against the building of a government luxury housing project on forested land - one of the (...)

• Ecology, climate (Thailand)

  Thailand: A changing Mekong, changing lives in Ubon Ratchathani

  12 May 2017, by Kornkritch Somjittranukit, PRACHATAI

  Dams constructed by Chinese government along the Mekong river are forcing villagers in Ubon Ratchathani into lives of uncertainty, even as they reap no benefits from the dams themselves.
  On 19 April 2017, seven exploration ships from China arrived in Chiang Khong District, Chiang Rai (...)

• Ecology, climate (Thailand)

  Thailand: The Littlest “Climate Criminals”

  3 September 2012, by Focus on the Global South

  As Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gather once again in Bangkok to continue talks about the climate talks, it should not go unnoticed that Thailand has been in the process of identifying its very first “climate criminals”. The “global warming cases”, (...)