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Falling farm prices, currency hit Thai-Myanmar trade
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 03/01/2018
» TAK: Trade value across the border with Myanmar border in Mae Sot district dropped more than 10% last year on falling prices in the agricultural sector and a drop in the value of the kyat.
Thailand, Myanmar launch joint border patrol
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 21/01/2018
» TAK: Thailand and Myanmar have launched a joint border patrol along the Moei River for the prevention and suppression of smuggling of drugs, labour-trafficking, military-grade weapons and other law-offending activities.
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.
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.
Probe into claim police station left unstaffed in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 30/01/2018
» TAK: Provincial police are investigating a complaint aired on a live Facebook broadcast by a woman claiming Phop Phra police station was deserted when she and dozens of sugarcane growers went there to file a complaint about loan fraud on Saturday.
Forest fires burn out 140 rai in Tak
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 08/02/2018
» TAK: Fires in a national park and a forest reserve in Mae Sot district on Thursday burned out about 140 rai of bushland, with a third hotspot extinguished before the flames took hold.
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.
Farmers defy governor's field fire ban
News, Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 13/02/2018
» Tak: Authorities concerned about haze caused by slash and burn farming were hunting villagers yesterday who defied a ban on outdoor burning by setting fire to a sugar cane field.
Border policeman arrested for attempted murder
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/02/2018
» TAK: A border patrol police officer has been arrested for shooting and seriously wounding his brother-in-law, a local policeman from Umphang district of this northern border province bordering Myanmar.
Temple fire guts monks' house in Mae Sot
Assawin Pinitwong, Published on 25/03/2018
» TAK: An old house for monks at Wat Wang Takhian in Mae Sot district of this northern border province was heavily damaged in a pre-dawn fire on Sunday morning. No deaths or injuries were reported.