Bundit Pantarakon stands alongside the Sai river in Mai Sai, the place the Thai Military is constructing flood management limitations alongside the river that kinds the border between Thailand and Myanmar.
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Bundit Pantarakon stands alongside the Sai river in Mai Sai, the place the Thai Military is constructing flood management limitations alongside the river that kinds the border between Thailand and Myanmar.
Michael Sullivan for NPR
China has practically cornered the market in uncommon earth minerals, that are a mandatory part to a lot of our know-how at this time. However China sources a few of these uncommon earths and different heavy metals from neighboring Myanmar. And the ramped up in manufacturing there may be inflicting downstream environmental issues in Thailand. We go to Thailand to grasp the problem.