{
  "id": 19386771,
  "title": "Toxins From Myanmar Mining Hit Chiang Rai Rivers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/toxins-from-myanmar-mining-hit-chiang-rai-rivers",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T19:57:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Chiang Rai Times",
    "slug": "chiang-rai-times",
    "url": "https://www.chiangraitimes.com/thailand-news/toxins-myanmar-mining/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "CHIANG RAI – Aggressive mining expansion across eastern Myanmar is severely contaminating vital transboundary river systems. Toxic industrial runoff now flows unchecked from Shan State straight into northern Thailand. Recent environmental monitoring reveals unsafe heavy metal levels across the Kok, Sai, Ruak, and Mekong rivers. Upstream mountain ranges are being stripped bare for gold, lead, […]…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}