Tests by a Thai government agency have found levels of arsenic nearly five times international drinking water standards in the Kok River
The complex is one of around a dozen extraction operations that have sprung up in Shan state since around 2022, in territory controlled by the United Wa State Army (UWSA), one of conflict-wracked Myanmar’s largest and best-equipped ethnic armed groups.
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