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Hundreds more scam workers flee Myawaddy
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 24/10/2025
» Nearly 1,700 people from 21 countries have fled KK Park, a notorious scam centre in Myawaddy township in Myanmar, and crossed the border into Tak province over the past two days, Thai authorities said on Friday.
Chinese assistant minister may receive Chinese scam victims at border
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/02/2025
» TAK: Chinese Assistant Public Security Minister Liu Zhongyi arrived in Mae Sot district on Sunday as observers expected him to escort hundreds of Chinese victims of call scam gangs back to their homeland.
Tortured Kenyan flees Myanmar call scam gang into Thailand
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 09/02/2025
» TAK: A Kenyan man crossed the Thai-Myanmar border to seek help in Phop Phra district, saying he was among about 1,000 people who were tortured unless they worked for a Chinese-led scam gang.
Details of Mae Sot-Nakhon Sawan railway to be released Friday
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 15/03/2021
» TAK: Details of the planned Mae Sot-Tak-Kamphaeng Phet-Nakhon Sawan double-track railway will be announced at a seminar on March 19 at the Wiang Tak Hotel in Muang district.
Four Thai women nabbed after sneaking in from Myanmar
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 28/02/2021
» TAK: Four Thai women were arrested at a security checkpoint in Mae Sot district after they illegally crossed the border from Myanmar into Thailand on Saturday night, officials said.
Bus parcel held millions of Indian rupees
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/11/2020
» TAK: Authorities seized a box containing 16 million Indian rupees found in the luggage compartment of a bus departing from Mae Sot district to Chiang Rai province on Wednesday.
Two Chinese arrested in Mae Sot for illegal entry
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 26/02/2020
» TAK: Two Chinese nationals, a man and a woman, were arrested for illegal entry in Mae Sot district by an army patrol from the 412th Infantry Company of the 4th Infantry Task Force on Wednesday morning, police said.
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.
Kokko Chinatown project sparks concerns in Tak
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 23/06/2019
» Border towns are often labelled as remote villages without modern infrastructure or amenities.
The cream of the crops
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 27/01/2018
» Rubber farmers suffering from freefalling crop prices are being urged to consider a departure from their traditional practice of sticking to one crop and embrace integrated farming to balance out their investment risk. Authorities in the southern province of Songkhla recently held a meeting to exchange ideas on how to create jobs and boost the earnings of rubber planters following years of plummeting rubber prices.