Locals protest sugarcane factory project in Khon Kaen’s Ban Phai District
A local protest group in Ban Phai District in Khon Kaen Province opposes a sugarcane factory and power plant project planned in the area.
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Pheu Chat Party rally draws thousands, a homecoming for many in Khon Kaen
For the first time since the 2014 military overthrow of the government they had helped to vote into power, followers of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), or the Red Shirts, gathered to call for democracy and show support for the Pheu Chat Party.
First-time voters in Khon Kaen join protest against another election delay
About 40 protesters, many of them first-time voters, chanted pro-elections slogans, waved placards, and performed political songs in a protest to demand no further delay of the national elections in Khon Kaen on Wednesday.
Khon Kaen planning to replicate urban garden project
Khon Kaen is laying out plans for an urban garden project close to the city’s green market
Rasi Salai group plans to set up green market in Sisaket
A group connected to the Wetland Association of Rasi Salai plans to set up an organic agriculture network and a new green market in Sisaket’s provincial capital.
At Isaan human rights event, Thailand’s challenges meet western successes
At the 9th Annual Isaan Human Rights Festival communities from across the region, activists, scholars, and students met with foreign missions from five countries.
Isaan migration through the lens of love
Migration has been grabbing global news for years. But the rising migration trend of Isaan women to western countries in the past 15 years has gone largely unnoticed.
Call for community rights as race for resources accelerates
The push for industrial farming, biomass power plants, and the extraction of minerals, gas and oil in the Northeast may carry a high price tag for the environment and local communities, warned speakers at a public forum in Ubon Ratchathani this month.
China’s banana boom is ‘saving’ a Mekong community threatened by Chinese dams
A Mekong riverside community forced to give up fishing as a livelihood due to the damming of the Mekong river in China is now turning to growing Cavendish bananas for export to China.