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38,000 meth pills seized in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 26/09/2014
» Stepped-up efforts to block the smuggling of methamphetamines from Myanmar through Tak province’s Mae Sot district already are bearing fruit after a foreign woman was caught with 38,000 speed pills there.
Fighting closes Mae Sot border post
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 27/09/2014
» Fighting between Myanmar government soldiers and Karen rebels has resulted in the closure on Saturday of a key border station in Mae Sot district of Tak province.
Survey starts for Mae Sot metropolis
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 24/10/2014
» Surveying of border areas began in Tak province on Friday for the planned Mae Sot metropolis, part of the new east-west economic corridor to connect with Myanmar.
Hmong village headman shot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/11/2014
» A Hmong village headman was shot and his four-year-old daughter injured in an attack at his home in Tak’s Phop Phra district late Tuesday night, police said.
Truck crash in Tak kills two
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/11/2014
» Two people, including the driver, were killed and four other workers injured, two seriously, when a truck loaded with glass crashed into a hill in Mae Sot district of Tak province on Saturday.
Tak people fear Myanmar carnivore
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 28/12/2014
» Security personnel were deployed in Ban Kok Paha village of Mae Ramat district in Tak province on Sunday after locals expressed fear that a Myanmar man obsessed with killing animals and devouring them might return.
Work starts on 2nd Mae Sot bridge
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 21/01/2015
» Construction has begun of the second Thai-Myanmar bridge across the Moei River, linking Mae Sot district in northern Tak province and Myawaddy town in Myanmar.
Chinese tourist found dead in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 18/03/2015
» A 60-year-old Chinese man was found dead in a hotel room in Tak’s Mae Sot district on Wednesday morning.
Blocked oil exports through Mae Sot raise border tension
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/03/2015
» A dispute over fuel export licences is causing tension on the Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Sot district of Tak, where police have blocked the flow of oil via a pipeline to Myawaddy, resulting in a fuel shortage there.
Myanmar partly closes Tak border
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 24/03/2015
» TAK — Myanmar soldiers on Tuesday closed ports on their side of the Moei River next to Mae Sot and Tha Song Yang districts in retaliation for tightened oil transport control on the Thai side but the Thai-Myanmar bridge remained open.