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Four Thais arrested after kidnapped Chinese woman flees car

KAMPHAENG PHET - Police arrested four Thai men after a Chinese woman abducted from a hotel in Bangkok escaped from a car while being taken to Mae Sot district in Tak province, on the Myanmar border.

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Chinese woman flees Thai abductors taking her to Myanmar border

KAMPHAENG PHET - A Chinese woman fled, her hands still tied, from Thai kidnappers who reportedly planned to take her from a hotel in Bangkok to Mae Sot district in Tak, bordering Myanmar, late Sunday night.

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Moei River overflows, prompting border market vendors in Mae Sot to move goods

Continuous heavy rain caused the Moei River in Mae Sot district of Tak province to overflow on Friday morning, forcing vendors at Rim Moei market to move their goods to higher ground.

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Major drug money laundering suspect arrested in Tak

A woman accused of laundering money for a major drug trafficking network was arrested in Mae Sot district of Tak province on Tuesday, with assets worth 150 million baht seized from her home.

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Fake Thai ID card racket busted in Tak

TAK - Police have arrested four Thais and seven Myanmar nationals in a crackdown on fraudulent Thai ID card issuance in this border province.

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12 Chinese nationals arrested in Tak

Twelve Chinese nationals were arrested after allegedly crossing illegally into Thailand from Myanmar and attempting to hide in a cornfield in the Mae Sot district of Tak province.

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Pickup driver smuggling Chinese migrants fatally hits rider during police chase

Four illegal Chinese migrants were detained after a pickup truck driver transporting them fled police, drove against traffic and fatally struck a motorcycle delivery rider in Mae Sot district, Tak province, on Tuesday. The Thai driver was arrested.

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Huge online scam operations are flourishing in war-torn Myanmar – I travelled there to find out why

South-east Asia has become the “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims billions of US dollars each year. Scam operations are run by Chinese crime syndicates from fortified compounds in countries like Myanmar, which has been embroiled in a nationwide armed conflict since…

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Hundreds of Chinese detainees riot in Tak

TAK: Security officials were checking for possible escapees after about 300 Chinese being held in a detention zone in Mae Sot district, bordering Myanmar, rioted on Tuesday night.

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Man arrested after firing gun in Mae Sot town centre

A man was arrested on Tuesday after repeatedly firing a gun in the streets of Mae Sot municipality in Tak province.

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Police hunt delivery rider gold thief

A robber wearing a delivery-rider jacket fled with gold necklaces worth 4.7 million baht stolen from a gold shop in a Mae Sot mall on Sunday.

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84 Indonesians taken out of scam centers in Myanmar are set to go home

Eighty-four Indonesians freed rom scam centers in Myanmar arrived at the Thai border city of Mae Sot earlier on Thursday, part of an ongoing large scale repatriation effort following a crackdown by Thailand, Myanmar and China

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‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid

Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts

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Four Japanese arrested at Myanmar border

Four Japanese nationals have been arrested in Mae Sot district of Tak province after illegally crossing the Thailand-Myanmar border to Myawaddy, police said on Saturday.

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Myanmar’s junta has suffered a humiliating military defeat. Could it be a turning point in the war?

My recent research trip to the Thai town of Mae Sot on the Myanmar border coincided with two big events. The heavens opened for several days with the first big rains of the monsoon season. And across the border, the Myanmar opposition forces took control of Lashio, a major military…

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Thailand’s top diplomat visits Myanmar border amid clashes, evacuations

Foreign Minister Parnpree arrives in Mae Sot to review measures to deal with people fleeing fighting across frontier.

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Thai Soldiers On Alert As Myanmar Border Clashes Enter Second Day

Thai armoured cars patrolled the town of Mae Sot Wednesday as the deep boom of artillery thundered across the border in Myanmar where the junta and an ethnic armed group fought for a second day near a vital trade hub.

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Thailand prepares for Myanmar refugee influx

Thailand is prepared to accept 100,000 refugees fleeing fighting in Myanmar after rebel forces seized control of Myawaddy, a border town opposite Tak's Mae Sot district, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara.

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Pink card graft appals

A bribe scandal involving the issuance of identity cards for ineligible Myanmar migrants in Tak's Mae Sot district shows how deeply rooted corruption is in this country and the failure of the Prayut Chan-o-cha government to clean up the state service over the past nine years.

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3 in hot water over B30m 'pink ID' case

Tak: Three Registration Department officials in Mae Sot district are under investigation after they allegedly took 30 million baht in bribes to issue identification cards to 700 Myanmar migrants in the past three months.

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For children in exile, school's a lifeline

It's 9am, before classes start, and children's shouts and squeals of laughter fill the air around three cottages in a school compound, a hilly area not far from the centre of Mae Sot, a northwestern city on the border with Myanmar.

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Thai handover of anti-junta trio condemned

Parliamentarians from Southeast Asia have condemned a recent decision by Thai authorities to hand over three Myanmar opposition fighters, one of whom died after being shot while the fate of the other two remains unknown.

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5,000 cross border to Tak after clashes

Over 5,000 Myanmar people have crossed the border to seek refuge in Tak province's Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts after clashes between ethnic groups and the Myanmar military continued for a second day.

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Residents flee fighting in Myanmar

TAK: More than 1,000 people fled across the border into Tak's Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts on Thursday as fighting continued nearby between Myanmar government troops and Karen fighters.

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Army mustn't dictate policy

The situation at the Thai-Myanmar border is becoming increasingly worrying following last week's intensified clashes between Myanmar's military government and armed ethnic rebel groups.

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