Both the hill tribes and the Chinese were prolific growers of opium poppies, but an aggressive government eradication campaign has led most fields to be replanted with coffee, tea and fruit, though ...

A hands-on farming day with the Lahu hill tribe offers travellers a unique insight into how remote communities are working towards a more sustainable future. Thailand’s northern hill tribes have long ...

Natee grew up with no nationality, like thousands of hill tribe children in northern Thailand. Statelessness can compound poor living conditions, preventing access to health services and education, ...

“Karen” (“Kayin” in Burmese) is an umbrella term given to the heterogeneous tribal people of the Burma-Thailand border regions. In modern times, and after the conversion to Christianity of the ...

1. The People of the Hills -- 2. The Land of the Hill Tribes -- 3. Farming in the Hills -- 4. Rice: The Sustainer -- 5. The Forest: The Provider -- 6. Bamboo: From Cradle to Grave -- 7. Opium: Cash, ...

The bishop of Thailand's northernmost diocese, which is largely rural and dominated by hill tribes, has begun himself working in the fields alongside his flock, noting the importance of agriculture ...

A Hmong missionary priest from Thailand has found that ministry to the hill tribe people in a midtown Milwaukee parish, home to new immigrants and refugees, is not that much different from his church ...

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 ...