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Myanmar-bound drone jammer seized
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/03/2024
» Two Myanmar nationals have been arrested in the border town of Mae Sot in Tak province with an anti-drone jamming device that was reportedly intended for use in the conflict-torn neighbouring country.
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.
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.
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.
Checks ramped up in Mae Sot
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 12/10/2020
» Thailand has tightened security at the main border trade gateway with Myanmar in Tak's Mae Sot district after three Myanmar nationals tested positive for the coronavirus at the Thai border.
Illegal Chinese migrants caught in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 03/09/2020
» TAK: Six Chinese people were arrested for illegally entering Thailand from Covid-19 infected Myanmar early on Thursday morning.
Chinese gambling hotel bust in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 18/06/2020
» TAK: More than 200 people were arrested during a raid on a hotel in Mae Sot district that police suspect was purchased cheaply by Chinese gangsters specifically for use as an online gambling operation.
Four Chinese arrested for fake papers
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 03/01/2020
» Four Chinese tourists were arrested yesterday for trying to use fake passports at the Thai-Myanmar border checkpoint in Mae Sot district of Tak province.
Calls grow to turn Tak into proper SEZ
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 02/04/2019
» TAK: An ambitious plan to turn the border village of Kokko in Myanmar into a new Chinatown has sparked calls for the Thai government to speed up making Tak a fully fledged special economic zone (SEZ).
Fire hits Mae Sot commercial building
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/09/2018
» TAK: A fire broke out at a three-storey commercial building in the heart of the border town of Mae Sot, opposite Myanmar's Myawaddy town across the Moei river, on Sunday morning. The fire caused about 30 million baht damage.