THE MYANMAR junta again pounded KK Park, the notorious scam complex at Myawaddy township, Kayin state, yesterday (Oct. 30) with its drones dropping bombs three times and this leading to more fearful foreign workers fleeing across the border to the Thai Mae Sot district, just across from Moei river, Amarin TV said. Karen Border
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Friendship Bridge packed as price petrol in Myawaddy soars to 135 baht a litre
THE 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge linking Myawaddy township to Thai Mae Sot town was packed this evening (Feb. 13) as residents drove across the border to the Thai side to fill their tanks with what fuel still available there now costing 135 baht a litre, Naewna newspaper said. Since Feb. 5 when the Thai
Read moreChinese model too feared trafficked to Myawaddy scam hub
AFTER the recent release of a Chinese actor who was trafficked from Thailand’s Mae Sot town to a scam centre in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, the father of a Chinese model who disappeared in December has asked Thai police to help find him as it is feared he might have suffered the same fate, PPTVHD36
Read moreChinese actor found in Myawaddy but was not kidnapped
THAI security agencies said at 12.50 p.m. today (Jan. 7) that a Chinese actor who disappeared after flying to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport from Shanghai has been found in Myanmar and the Border Guard Force said he was not kidnapped, Naewna newspaper said. The actor would likely be handed over at around 2 p.m. today
Read moreChinese actor missing at Mae Sot after being tricked into joining a shoot here
A CHINESE actor’s girlfriend posted a message on Sina Weibo social media platform that he had been tricked into travelling to Thailand to film a drama before disappearing at Thai-Myanmar border with the Chinese consulate in Chiang Mai confirming that he went missing in Mae Sot, Naewna newspaper and Global Times said this afternoon
Read more39 foreigners flee Myanmar scam centre: Thai police
By AFP and published by CNA THIRTY-NINE foreigners have fled an online scam centre in Myanmar across the border to Thailand, where officials are working to identify potential trafficking victims, police told AFP on Monday (Nov. 25). Scam compounds have mushroomed in Myanmar’s borderlands and are staffed by foreigners who are often trafficked and
Read moreYoung girl, dad killed after posting photo of new boyfriend on Facebook
A MYANMAR man who killed his 13-year-old former girlfriend and her father after she had posted a photo of her new boyfriend on Facebook page was today (Sept. 2) taken for crime reenactment in Mae Sot city, Tak province, Thai Rath newspaper said. Mr. Cho, 24, had confessed to using a sharp object to
Read moreMae Sot, Myawaddy heavily flooded after four days of torrential rain
THE Thai-Myanmar border along Mae Sot city on the Thai side and Myawaddy township on the other side of Moei river are heavily flooded after four days of torrential rain led to this river rising by 1.5 metres and overflowing with a large number people on both sides of the border affected, Thai Rath
Read moreOnline casino’s equipment seized while being shifted from Myawaddy to Poipet
A POLICE and military unit patrolling Mae Sot border area late last night (July 14) ran into a group of Myanmar smugglers moving an online casino’s computer equipment into the country from Myawaddy township with this likely being taken across the country to Cambodia’s Poipet border town across from Aranyaprathet, Amarin TV said this
Read moreCrackdown on transmitting Internet signals to crime zone across the border
IN A crackdown on transmitting Internet signals to Myanmar’s Myawaddy township from Mae Sot border town, a hundred officials, police and soldiers raided six targeted spots and seized a lot of communication devices, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (June 28). Mr. Trairat Viriyasirikul, acting secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of
Read moreMyanmar rebel group says it withdraws from key town on Thai border
By Reuters and published by CNA A MYANMAR rebel group has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by soldiers of the ruling junta from whom the rebels had this month wrested the key trading post, an official said today (Apr. 24). The Karen National Union (KNU) made
Read moreMyawaddy fighting won’t spill over to Thailand: Anutin
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said upon getting ready to go to Mae Sot district, which is directly opposite Myawaddy where Karen National Union (KNU) and their allies and Myanmar junta have been fighting, that it is unlikely the clashes will spill over to the Thai side, TV Channel 7 said today (Apr.
Read moreOver a hundred injured in Myawaddy fighting treated in Tak province so far: Chonlanan
PUBLIC Health Minister Chonlanan Srikaew said in Mae Sot town today (Aug. 22) that after fierce fighting broke out across the border in Myawaddy last Saturday Apr. 20 altogether 113 Myanmar citizens have been treated at various hospitals in Tak province with many of them now discharged because they had suffered minor injuries, Amarin
Read moreFighting escalates in Myawaddy with many wounded people crossing over to Thai side
THE FIGHTING between Karen National Union (KNU) and its ally People’s Defence Force (PDF) and Myanmar junta has now spread to several locations in Myawaddy district, just across the border from Thailand’s Mae Sot district, with many wounded Myanmar nationals brought over for medical treatment at Mae Sot Hospital, Amarin TV said today (Apr.
Read moreBullets from fighting in Myawaddy fly across the border to the Thai side
THE FIERCE fighting in Myawaddy district, across the border from Thailand’s Mae Sot district, between ethnic minority fighters and Myanmar junta soldiers holding out near the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship after their base fell earlier this month has begun to affect Thais with bullets flying across the border and one hitting a resident’s window, Naewna
Read moreAnti-junta fighters mount attack on Myanmar junta soldiers holding out in Myawaddy
OVER 200 Myawaddy residents fled across the border to adjoining Thai Mae Sot town after ethnic minority fighters launched an attack on Myanmar junta soldiers holding out in this border district at 6 a.m. this morning (Apr. 20), Amarin TV said. Around 200 Tatmadaw Infantry Battalion 275 and front section of Light Infantry Battalion
Read moreKaren rebels say they have repelled junta push to take back Myawaddy
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Mae Sot – A resistance group fighting Myanmar’s military rule said on Sunday (Apr.14) its fighters had repelled an attempt by junta troops to advance on the key town of Myawaddy along the Thai border that was seized by the rebels last week. Reinforcements of junta forces have
Read moreMyawaddy checkpoint temporarily opened to let Thai trucks return
ALTHOUGH the situation along the Thai-Myanmar border is still tense after anti-junta forces took control of Myawaddy town which just across the river from Thai Mae Sot town those in charge out there did today (Apr. 12) temporarily open the second permanent border checkpoint to allow Thai trucks to return home, Thai Rath newspaper
Read moreThai F-16s could intercept Myanmar MiG-29s in 5 minutes: Air Force Chief
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAI F-16A/B FIGHTERS could practically intercept any Myanmar MiG-29 jets which might possibly intrude into Thai air space from inside the war-torn country in five minutes, said Thai Air Force Chief ACM Panpakdee Pattanakul today (Apr. 11). The F-16A/B Fighting Falcon jets from Wing 4 in Takhli are currently on
Read moreMyanmar junta heavily bomb city near Mae Sot
MYANMAR junta sent bombers to pummel Gogalec city which is around 45km from Thailand’s Mae Sot district with over a hundred houses destroyed by fire, Matichon newspaper said today (Jan 28). At least three rounds of bombing took place with district numbers 1, 7, and 3, which are urban and suburban zones, as well
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