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Tour guide missing in Tak forest since Saturday
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 05/05/2025
» TAK: A tour guide has been missing in the Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary since Saturday and a search continues.
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.
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.
Friendship Bridge now ready for reopening
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 11/01/2023
» Tak: The Friendship Bridge linking Thailand and Myanmar reopens tomorrow, much to the delight of eager traders who have waited three years for the resumption of border trade stalled by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Details of Mae Sot-Nakhon Sawan railway to be released Friday
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 15/03/2021
» TAK: Details of the planned Mae Sot-Tak-Kamphaeng Phet-Nakhon Sawan double-track railway will be announced at a seminar on March 19 at the Wiang Tak Hotel in Muang district.
Bus parcel held millions of Indian rupees
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/11/2020
» TAK: Authorities seized a box containing 16 million Indian rupees found in the luggage compartment of a bus departing from Mae Sot district to Chiang Rai province on Wednesday.
Tak governor lifts lockdown
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 27/10/2020
» Tak: Cross-border cargo trade resumed over the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot yesterday morning after Covid-19 restrictions were eased by local authorities.
Border trade resuming in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 26/10/2020
» TAK: Cross-border cargo trade resumed over the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot on Monday morning after Covid-19 restrictions were eased.
Checks ramped up in Mae Sot
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 12/10/2020
» Thailand has tightened security at the main border trade gateway with Myanmar in Tak's Mae Sot district after three Myanmar nationals tested positive for the coronavirus at the Thai border.
Victim's kin demand execution for 'killers'
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 05/03/2020
» Relatives of a Chinese man whose body was found in a suitcase pulled from the Ping River have demanded the death penalty for his killers, after two of the four hunted suspects were caught in Myanmar.