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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.
Chinese assistant minister may receive Chinese scam victims at border
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/02/2025
» TAK: Chinese Assistant Public Security Minister Liu Zhongyi arrived in Mae Sot district on Sunday as observers expected him to escort hundreds of Chinese victims of call scam gangs back to their homeland.
Chinese officials visit Thai-Myanmar border for anti-scam talks
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/01/2025
» Chinese and Thai security authorities visited border areas in Tak province on Wednesday to work out measures to help victims of Chinese scam gangs based in Myawaddy across the border in Myanmar.
32 Indonesians sneak into Thailand's Tak province from Myanmar
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/01/2025
» TAK: Thirty-two Indonesian nationals, 30 men and two women, have been caught fleeing from neighbouring Myanmar into Thailand through a border area in Mae Sot district and detained for questioning.
Myanmar-bound drone jammer seized
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 29/03/2024
» Two Myanmar nationals have been arrested in the border town of Mae Sot in Tak province with an anti-drone jamming device that was reportedly intended for use in the conflict-torn neighbouring country.
Traders call for border reopening
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 13/01/2023
» The volume of goods traded with Myanmar through the border in Chiang Rai is expected to grow twofold if Myanmar agrees to reopen the checkpoint in Mae Sai district, according to Chiang Rai's Chamber of Commerce.
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.
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.
Chinese gambling hotel bust in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 18/06/2020
» TAK: More than 200 people were arrested during a raid on a hotel in Mae Sot district that police suspect was purchased cheaply by Chinese gangsters specifically for use as an online gambling operation.
Seven truckloads of smuggled rice seized in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 22/11/2019
» TAK: More than 300,000 kilogrammes of rice believed smuggled from Myanmar for labeling as Thai rice have been seized from seven trailer trucks in Mae Sot district.