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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.
Traisuree gets secretary-general post
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 22/09/2025
» SI SA KET: Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will appoint Traisuree Taisaranakul as his secretary-general, elevating his long-time aide to a key position.
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.
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.
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.
Thi Lor Su waterfall to close for 4 months
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 28/05/2019
» TAK: The dirt road to Thi Lor Su waterfall will be closed from June 1 to Sept 30 for environmental rehabilitation and public safety, officials say.
Second Thai-Myanmar friendship bridge opens
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 19/03/2019
» TAK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday opened the second Thai-Myanmar bridge across the Moei River.
Hunter arrested while grilling civet
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 12/02/2018
» TAK: Police arrested a hunter who was cooking the meat of a civet he had allegedly just killed in a national park in Phop Phra district Monday.
Road linking Mae Sot with EWEC highway nearly finished
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/01/2018
» TAK: The construction of a new road to connect Mae Sot with part of the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) linking Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam is expected to be completed next month.
The cream of the crops
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 27/01/2018
» Rubber farmers suffering from freefalling crop prices are being urged to consider a departure from their traditional practice of sticking to one crop and embrace integrated farming to balance out their investment risk. Authorities in the southern province of Songkhla recently held a meeting to exchange ideas on how to create jobs and boost the earnings of rubber planters following years of plummeting rubber prices.