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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.
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.
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.
Marijuana intercepted on way to Myanmar
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 05/10/2020
» TAK: Border offiials intercepted 136 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana being smuggled across the border from Mae Sot district to Myawaddy, in Myanmar, on Monday.
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.
Driver nods off, kills 2 passengers, injures 7
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 06/08/2019
» LAMPANG: Two Myanmar workers were killed and eight other people injured when a van taking them to Chiang Rai ran off the road and hit a tree on the centre divider in Ko Kha district of Lampang in the early hours of Tuesday.
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.