A family fled from a fire that ripped through their wooden floating home in northern Thailand. Footage shows ... their house on the banks of the Ping River in Lamphun province, on February 19.

CHIANG RAI, Thailand - Bean sprout farmer Orapin Waotikon describes life along the Mekong River as “throwing the dice”. At the crack of dawn every day, the 56-year-old woman heads to the river ...