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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.
Chinese anti-scam team arrives in Myawaddy
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 07/07/2025
» TAK - A team from China's Criminal Investigation Bureau has arrived in Myanmar's Myawaddy border township to discuss help for Chinese victims of the scam centres that continue to operate there, a reliable source said on Monday.
Diesel shortage near Thai-Myanmar border as anti-smuggling efforts continue
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 16/02/2025
» TAK: People in Phop Phra district of Tak bordering Myawaddy are facing a shortage of diesel while security officials arrest Thais for smuggling fuel into Myanmar.
Thai solar panels, fuel destined for Myanmar seized
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 09/02/2025
» TAK: Security officers on Sunday intercepted the smuggling of solar panels and fuel to Myanmar in separate incidents in this border western province.
Man caught stringing suspected scam cables across river to Myanmar
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 02/09/2024
» TAK - A man was has been arrested beside the Moei river in Mae Sot district while allegedly stringing power and communications cables illegally across the river to Myanmar.
Myawaddy households struggle without power from Thailand
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 13/06/2023
» TAK: Ordinary households in Myawaddy have been hit hard by the decision to cut off the supply of electricity across the border from Thailand, but big Chinese investors are unaffected, their huge complexes brightly lit as usual at 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.
Friendship Bridge bomb heightens fear
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/04/2022
» MAE SOT, TAK: A car bomb went off at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge on the Myawaddy side of the border opposite Mae Sot district late on Saturday night, a security source said on Sunday.
Tak highway blocked by landslides
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 11/08/2019
» TAK: Traffic on Highway 1090 linking Mae Sot, Phop Phra and Umphang districts in this northern border province was blocked by landslides late on Saturday night. The road was partially reopened on Sunday morning.
Huge tree falls onto Tak-Mae Hong Son highway, blocking traffic
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 09/12/2018
» TAK: A section of the Tak-Mae Hong Son highway was blocked to vehicles for about four hours on Sunday morning after a heavy rainstorm brought down a large tree.