Bundit Pantarakon stands alongside the Sai river in Mai Sai, the place the Thai Military is constructing flood management boundaries alongside the river that types 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 boundaries alongside the river that types 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 present. 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 considerations in Thailand. We go to Thailand to know the problem.