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Sacred Karen tusks returned
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 27/02/2026
» Tak province has returned a pair of 400-year-old sacred elephant tusks to the Karen "long-haired hermit" community of Lay Tong Ku in Umphang district, ending a years-long dispute over the culturally significant artefacts.
Chinese officials visit Thai-Myanmar border for anti-scam talks
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/01/2025
» Chinese and Thai security authorities visited border areas in Tak province on Wednesday to work out measures to help victims of Chinese scam gangs based in Myawaddy across the border in Myanmar.
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.
Thai women arrested for illegal entry
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/07/2021
» TAK: Eight Thai women were arrested by soldiers after they illegally crossed the Moei River from Myanmar into Mae Sot district early on Monday morning.
IIlegal Chinese migrants breach quarantine, re-arrested in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/06/2021
» TAK: Two illegal Chinese migrants who were supposed to be in quarantine were arrested while wandering around Mae Sot on Wednesday by soldiers of the 4th Infantry Regiment.
Chinese nationals accused of illegal entry
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 26/10/2020
» TAK: Three Chinese nationals were arrested by joint forces for allegedly entering the kingdom illegally through the province's natural border from Myanmar with 8 million baht in cash in their belongings.
Four illegal border crossers caught in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 12/10/2020
» TAK: Four Myanmar nationals were arrested by a government patrol after they waded across the Moei River from Myawaddy in the small hours on Monday.
Smuggled Rohingya caught in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 20/05/2020
» TAK: Ten adult Rohingya were arrested in Mae Sot district, near the border with Myanmar, on Tuesday night and charged with illegal entry, police said.
4 Chinese arrested in Tak trying to cross into Myanmar
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/03/2020
» TAK: Four Chinese nationals were arrested on Saturday trying to sneak across the border from Mae Sot district to Myanmar, an immigration police source said on Sunday.