A military patrol encountered suspected smugglers carrying backpacks in the early hours of Thursday in Chiang Rai province near the Golden Triangle – the region where the jungle borders of ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday he wants to change the name of a notorious drug-producing area known as "The Golden Triangle ... little police or army presence.

10 October 2011 • 7:37pm The Golden Triangle region ... apples and fuel. Thai army officials said a gang run by a suspected ethnic Shan drug trafficker was believed to be behind the attacks.