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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.
Half the workers in Mae Sot factory test positive
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 28/06/2021
» More than half of the 840 Myanmar migrant and Thai workers in three factories in Tak's Mae Sot district have tested positive for Covid-19 during a massive screening operation carried out Saturday night, says a doctor at Mae Sot Hospital.
Two more Myanmar people in Mae Sot test positive
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 22/12/2020
» TAK: Two Myanmar nationals who were among 120 people deemed at risk in Mae Sot district for Covid-19 infection tested positive on Tuesday and were quarantined.
Truck operator dumped sewage near village water supply
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 13/11/2020
» TAK: Karen villagers in Phop Phra district have confronted the operator of a septic waste truck for dumping sewage in a community forest and watershed area they have used for drinking water for generations.
Tak closes border as Covid-19 fears grow
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/10/2020
» Tak officials announced a week-long border closure on the same day Covid-19 tests came back negative for all 26 classmates of a 10-year-old found among the latest batch of three reported cases in the district.
Coronavirus testing continues in Mae Sot
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 14/10/2020
» TAK: Testing for Covid-19 has continued in Mae Sot district of this northern border province on both Thai and Myanmar nationals considered at risk after three Myanmar lorry drivers tested positive for Covid-19 at the Thai border between Friday and Saturday.
Covid-19 testing continues in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 13/10/2020
» TAK: Testing for Covid-19 has continued in Mae Sot district of this northern border province on both Thai and Myanmar nationals considered at risk after three Myanmar lorry drivers tested positive for Covid-19 at the Thai border between Friday and Saturday.
Illegal Myanmar migrants caught
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 15/09/2020
» TAK: Ten Myanmar nationals were arrested near the border in Mae Sot district on Tuesday, all without travel documents, as security along the Thai-Myanmar frontier remains tight to keep out Covid-19.
Illegally-felled logs seized in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 10/05/2020
» TAK: A team of soldiers from the 4th Infantry Regiment seized a large number of illegally-felled logs and processed wood in a raid at a village in Mae Sot district on Sunday, according to local media.
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.