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Border on alert amid Myanmar raids
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 22/04/2026
» Security has been tightened along the Thai–Myanmar border in Mae Hong Son province after Myanmar airstrikes hit Karen National Union (KNU) positions opposite Mae Sariang and Sob Moei districts, prompting Thai authorities to place ranger units and local agencies on 24-hour alert.
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.
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.
13 illegal Thai returnees arrested in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 18/02/2021
» TAK: Soldiers arrested 13 Thais in a sugarcane plantation in Mae Sot district after they sneaked back across the border from Myanmar, where they had been working at a casino in Myawaddy, on Wednesday afternoon.
Two more Myanmar people in Mae Sot test positive
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 22/12/2020
» TAK: Two Myanmar nationals who were among 120 people deemed at risk in Mae Sot district for Covid-19 infection tested positive on Tuesday and were quarantined.
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.
Myanmar, Chinese illegal migrants arrested
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 09/07/2020
» TAK: Officials arrested 12 Myanmar and three Chinese illegal migrants in Phop Phra and Mae Sot districts on Wednesday.
Kokko Chinatown project sparks concerns in Tak
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 23/06/2019
» Border towns are often labelled as remote villages without modern infrastructure or amenities.
Myanmar trafficking victims escorted home
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 20/11/2018
» TAK: Thai authorities have returned 73 Myanmar nationals who fell prey to human trafficking gangs back to their homes and vowed further crackdowns on migrant labour exploitation.