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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.
Tour guide missing in Tak forest since Saturday
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 05/05/2025
» TAK: A tour guide has been missing in the Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary since Saturday and a search continues.
Fire destroys 200 vehicles in Mae Sot customs compound
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/03/2025
» TAK - Fire destroyed about 200 impounded vehicles in the parking lot of the customs office in Mae Sot district on Tuesday night.
Extreme heat in Lampang
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 03/04/2024
» Temperatures in the Thoen district of the northern Lampang province reached 42 degrees Celsius on Monday and Tuesday, the hottest temperatures for this year's summer so far.
19 illegal Myanmar migrants held in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 04/09/2021
» TAK: Nineteen Myanmar nationals have been caught in a forest in Mae Ramat district for illegal entry.
Searchers find lost mountain biker
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/04/2021
» TAK: A search party has found a Canadian mountain biker who lost his way in a forest in Mae Sot district on Thursday.
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.
Four illegal border crossers caught in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 12/10/2020
» TAK: Four Myanmar nationals were arrested by a government patrol after they waded across the Moei River from Myawaddy in the small hours on Monday.
Checks ramped up in Mae Sot
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 12/10/2020
» Thailand has tightened security at the main border trade gateway with Myanmar in Tak's Mae Sot district after three Myanmar nationals tested positive for the coronavirus at the Thai border.
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.