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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.
Hmong family of 5, including 3 children, murdered
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 09/02/2023
» TAK: A Hmong family of five, including three children aged between three months and ten years, were found dead in a remote plantation in Wang Chao district on Wednesday morning.
Wounded Myanmar villagers treated in Thailand
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/06/2022
» TAK: Myanmar villagers injured during fighting around Myawaddy town, near the border, between Myanmar government troops and Karen soldiers have been treated by Thai officials in Phop Phra district.
Mae Sot chief shunted over Uighurs' escape from centre
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 17/10/2020
» TAK: The Mae Sot immigration chief has been transferred pending an investigation into the escape of two Uighur men from an immigration detention centre on Wednesday. The escapees remained at large yesterday.
Mae Sot immigration chief transferred over Uighurs' escape
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/10/2020
» TAK: The Mae Sot immigration chief has been transferred pending an investigation into the escape of two Uighur men from an immigration detention centre on Wednesday.
Victim's kin demand execution for 'killers'
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 05/03/2020
» Relatives of a Chinese man whose body was found in a suitcase pulled from the Ping River have demanded the death penalty for his killers, after two of the four hunted suspects were caught in Myanmar.
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.
Four killed in Myanmar family brutal murder
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/12/2018
» TAK: A Myanmar couple and their two sons - one four years and the other four months old - were found to have been killed following a feud with fellow Myanmar migrants at a village farm in Mae Sot district.
Elephantiasis case in Tak
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 17/09/2018
» Tak: Mae Sot General Hospital on Sunday confirmed at least one new case of elephantiasis in the province, six months after the World Health Organisation (WHO) lauded Thailand for eradicating the tropical disease.
Smuggled brand-name goods, onions seized in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 15/07/2018
» TAK: Customs officials in Mae Sot district, with support from a local military unit, have seized about 3-million-baht worth of brand-name goods ordered on eBay and 1,156 kilogrammes of onions - all smuggled from Myanmar.