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Hundreds of Chinese detainees riot in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 10/12/2025
» TAK - Security officials were checking for possible escapees after more than 300 Chinese being held in a detention zone in Mae Sot district, bordering Myanmar, rioted on Tuesday night.
Shells from Myanmar hit border area
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 01/12/2025
» TAK: The army fired smoke rounds into Myanmar after shells from across the border landed in Mae Sot district, damaging a house and injuring at least two civilians.
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.
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.
Illegal internet cables found installed across Thai-Myanmar bridge
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 02/12/2024
» TAK - Large internet cables have been found illegally installed across the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge and were being used by call centre gangs.
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.
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.
Manhunt for Tak gold shop robber
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/05/2022
» TAK: A police manhunt has been launched for a man who on Sunday staged a robbery at a gold shop in the Big C superstore in Muang district of this northern border province and made off with 193-baht weight of gold ornaments worth about 5.8 million baht.
Trafficked Rohingya among illegal migrants caught in Songkhla
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/03/2022
» SONGKHLA: There were young Rohingya "victims of human trafficking" among 61 illegal migrants from Myanmar caught in Hat Yai district while en route to Malaysia, assistant police chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn said.
Reinforcements sent to Myanmar camp where riot erupted
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/12/2021
» TAK: Security authorities sent reinforcements to the Myanmar refugee camp where a riot erupted on Tuesday night and insisted on legal action against dissident refugees.