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Border on alert amid Myanmar raids
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 22/04/2026
» Security has been tightened along the Thai–Myanmar border in Mae Hong Son province after Myanmar airstrikes hit Karen National Union (KNU) positions opposite Mae Sariang and Sob Moei districts, prompting Thai authorities to place ranger units and local agencies on 24-hour alert.
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.
School official in Tak faces sack after sexual abuse probe
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 12/01/2024
» The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) yesterday said a 43-year-old deputy school director in the northern province of Tak is facing the sack after an investigation found there were grounds to claims he molested a number of female students and sent inappropriate messages.
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.
Border crossers caught in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 15/03/2022
» TAK: Police arrested 36 illegal Myanmar migrants in Mae Sot district early on Tuesday morning.
Three groups of border crossers caught in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 01/03/2022
» TAK: Forty-three Myanmar nationals were arrested after illegally crossing the border in three groups into Muang and Mae Sot districts of this northern border province on Monday, police said.
Man admits to killing his own son
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/05/2020
» SONGKHLA: A man admits he killed his own son and buried the body in a forest in Na Mom district of this southern province, police said yesterday.
Illegally cut teak seized in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 20/05/2020
» TAK: A large quantity of team wood was seized from a village near the Mae Sot National Park in Mae Sot district on Tuesday by police from the Natural Resources and Environment Crime Suppression Division and soldiers from the 4th Infantry Regiment.
Myanmar man self-isolates in tree house
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/03/2020
» TAK: A migrant worker refused entry to his home village when he returned from Thailand, for fear he was carrying Covid-19 disease, opted to isolate himself in a tree house until it was clear he was free of the disease, according to a local media report.
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.