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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.
Police hunt delivery rider gold thief
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 03/03/2025
» TAK: A robber wearing delivery-rider garb fled with gold necklaces worth 4.7 million baht stolen from a gold shop in a Mae Sot mall on Sunday.
Three Myanmar migrants nabbed in Mae Sot for illegal entry
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 08/11/2020
» TAK: Three female Myanmar migrants were arrested on Saturday night by soldiers patrolling along the border in Mae Sot district to prevent illegal border crossings from Myanmar in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese arrested in Tak for illegal entry
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 02/09/2020
» TAK: Six Chinese men were arrested in Mae Sot district of this northern border province on Wednesday morning for illegal entry.
Temple burgled, B20,000 stolen in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/06/2019
» TAK: The abbot of a temple, Wat Pa Mai Dungdee, in Mae Sot district of this northern border province has only 100 baht left after a thief broke into his room early Sunday and made off with about 20,000 baht in donations, police said.