• THAILAND

  Myawaddy households struggle without power from Thailand

  Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 13/06/2023

  » TAK: Ordinary households in Myawaddy have been hit hard by the decision to cut off the supply of electricity across the border from Thailand, but big Chinese investors are unaffected, their huge complexes brightly lit as usual at night.

• THAILAND

  PEA cuts power to two towns in Myanmar

  Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 06/06/2023

  » TAK: The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand has cut off the supply of electricity across the Moei river to two border towns in Myanmar where groups of Chinese businessmen have made huge illegal investments, at the request of the Myanmar government, Thai official sources said.

• THAILAND

  Residents flee fighting in Myanmar

  Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 06/04/2023

  » TAK: More than 1,000 people fled across the border into Tak's Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts on Thursday as fighting continued nearby between Myanmar government troops and Karen fighters.

• THAILAND

  5,000 cross border to Tak after clashes

  News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 07/04/2023

  » Over 5,000 Myanmar people have crossed the border to seek refuge in Tak province's Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts after clashes between ethnic groups and the Myanmar military continued for a second day.

• THAILAND

  Hmong family of 5, including 3 children, murdered

  Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 09/02/2023

  » TAK: A Hmong family of five, including three children aged between three months and ten years, were found dead in a remote plantation in Wang Chao district on Wednesday morning.

• THAILAND

  Traders call for border reopening

  News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 13/01/2023

  » The volume of goods traded with Myanmar through the border in Chiang Rai is expected to grow twofold if Myanmar agrees to reopen the checkpoint in Mae Sai district, according to Chiang Rai's Chamber of Commerce.

• THAILAND

  Friendship Bridge now ready for reopening

  News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 11/01/2023

  » Tak: The Friendship Bridge linking Thailand and Myanmar reopens tomorrow, much to the delight of eager traders who have waited three years for the resumption of border trade stalled by the Covid-19 pandemic.

• THAILAND

  Wounded Myanmar villagers treated in Thailand

  Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/06/2022

  » TAK: Myanmar villagers injured during fighting around Myawaddy town, near the border, between Myanmar government troops and Karen soldiers have been treated by Thai officials in Phop Phra district.

• THAILAND

  Manhunt for Tak gold shop robber

  Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/05/2022

  » TAK: A police manhunt has been launched for a man who on Sunday staged a robbery at a gold shop in the Big C superstore in Muang district of this northern border province and made off with 193-baht weight of gold ornaments worth about 5.8 million baht.

• THAILAND

  Friendship Bridge bomb heightens fear

  News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/04/2022

  » MAE SOT, TAK: A car bomb went off at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge on the Myawaddy side of the border opposite Mae Sot district late on Saturday night, a security source said on Sunday.

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