Spread across the northern reaches of Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Thailand, and into southern China, in a region that has long been isolated and neglected, the hills are largely the preserve of a ...

he Akha’s giant swing, located on the hill of Pha Mee village in Mae Sai district, Chiang Rai, Thailand, was made of woods, ropes and tire. No safety equipment was seen around the swing, only a ...

The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of hill tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand's northern mountains to the city of Chiang Rai, its banks and the ...

BANGKOK, THAILAND—In the hills of northern Thailand, near the infamous Golden Triangle region, a new kind of battle is taking place. The nexus of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos has long been plagued by ...

1 of 9 — Mawai, a 39-year-old ethnic Akha farmer, lives with his wife and baby in their mountain home near Kengtung in Myanmar's east-central Shan state. 2 of 9 — Farmers burn fields along the road to ...

This beautiful Kagurazaka coffee shop is the Tokyo outlet of a small Chiang Mai-based craft coffee roaster, which began in an Akha village in northern Thailand. Started as a family business, Akha Ama ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand — The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of Thailand’s hill-tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand’s northern mountains to the city of ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) -- The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of hill tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand's northern mountains to the city of Chiang ...