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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.
Fire destroys 200 vehicles in Mae Sot customs compound
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/03/2025
» TAK - Fire destroyed about 200 impounded vehicles in the parking lot of the customs office in Mae Sot district on Tuesday night.
Police hunt delivery rider gold thief
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 03/03/2025
» TAK: A robber wearing delivery-rider garb fled with gold necklaces worth 4.7 million baht stolen from a gold shop in a Mae Sot mall on Sunday.
Tak braces for refugee influx
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 06/02/2025
» Tak: The Tak Provincial Public Health Office is gearing up for an influx of patients from refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border, with around 40,000-50,000 people expected.
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.
Briton arrested for drug abuse on Koh Phangan
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 18/04/2024
» SURAT THANI: A British man was arrested while begging in front of a convenience store on the well-known tourist destination of Koh Phangan.
Extreme heat in Lampang
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 03/04/2024
» Temperatures in the Thoen district of the northern Lampang province reached 42 degrees Celsius on Monday and Tuesday, the hottest temperatures for this year's summer so far.
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.
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.