A SIX-WHEEL truck taking over 70 Myanmar workers from a pineapple processing plant to their living quarters overturned and plunged down the roadside in Chonburi this evening (Oct. 15) injuring more than 60 of them, Amarin TV said. At 6.40 p.m. Bo Thong police station and Sawang Het Ban Thung Hiang rescue unit were
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Two bodies float down river as new scam hubs emerge in Myawaddy township
THAI villagers in Tak province today (Oct. 7) found the bodies of a Chinese man and woman that had floated down Moei river and washed up on the Thai bank from the location of a new scam city south of Myawaddy town on the Myanmar side, TV Channel 7 said. These villagers, in Phop
Read moreMyanmar Ambassador to Thailand recalled over serious charges
MYANMAR Ambassador to Thailand Zaw Zaw Soe was recently summoned to the capital Naypyitaw for interrogation, The Irrawaddy news outlet quoted sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying. This followed the visit to Thailand by coup-installed President Min Aung Hlaing and military Commander-in-Chief Gen. Ye Win Oo last month during which the
Read moreChaos at Mai Sai border as Myanmar temporarily bans frozen foods, other products
MYANMAR’S temporary ban on import of frozen foods and various other products from Thai border town Mae Sai across to Tachileik triggered chaos today (Sep. 21) with small traders stuck on and nearby the First Mae Sai-Tachileik Bridge, Amarin TV said. Myanmar authorities cited a lack of standard inspections and unpaid Myanmar taxes as
Read moreAre scam gangs trafficking victims’ organs?
Special report by Anantachai Watcharasathian, TV Channel 7 SUSPICIONS have arisen that scam networks dabble in more than financial fraud and human trafficking with security agencies believing they are also linked to heinous crimes such as organ trafficking. The scam empire that was exposed to the world after Thai troops secured O’Smach area, opposite
Read moreMyanmar military offensive targets land for Russia-backed port project
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News MYANMAR’S military has deployed hundreds of troops to forcibly clear areas marked for a Russia-backed special economic zone in the country’s south, burning villages and sealing off surrounding tracts of land, according to resistance fighters and a local activist with direct knowledge. The offensive around the Dawei Special
Read morePopulist measures can lead to crisis while investing in Myanmar risky: Anusorn
RECKLESSLY implementing populist measures could lead to Thailand being hit by a sovereign debt crisis as faced by some Latin American countries in the 1990s and Greece, Spain, and Italy during 2009-2010 while promoting investment in Myanmar may seriously endanger Thai capital and businesses venturing forth, Dr. Anusorn Thammajai, a People’s MP who staged
Read more19 university student groups jointly protest Myanmar leader’s visit to Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NINETEEN student groups at three major universities today (Aug.7) aired a concerted protest against Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing’s official visit to Thailand welcomed by the Bhumjaithai-led government. The 19 students groups attached to Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University and Kasetsart University issued the joint statement to strongly denounce the Myanmar’s
Read moreMyanmar leader calls on Thai businesses to invest in his country
MYANMAR President Min Aung Hlaing urged Thai businesses to invest in his country assuring them of legal protection while highlighting development of deep-sea shipping at Dawei Port as a gateway to South Asia, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Aug. 6). Speaking at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre as co-chair of Thailand-Myanmar Business Forum 2026
Read moreBorder trade turns positive growing by 3.9% in June
THAILAND’S border trade registered a growth of 3.9 percent for the first time in 13 months in June driven by trade with Malaysia and Laos but the figure for Cambodia remained zero as all border checkpoints are stll shut, PPTVHD36 said today (Aug. 6). Ms. Arada Fuengthong, director-general of the Department of International Trade,
Read moreMyanmar president visits Thailand on quest for legitimacy as Bangkok backs engagement
By Panu Wongcha-um, Reuters, and published by Yahoo!News MYANMAR’S junta chief turned President Min Aung Hlaing will make an official visit to Thailand today (Aug. 6), as Bangkok makes a push for re-engagement between its war-torn neighbour and the regional bloc Asean. Myanmar’s leaders have been barred from summits of the Association of Southeast
Read moreDetained Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official in Myanmar: president office
By AFP and published by Yahoo!News MYANMAR’S detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the nation’s Red Cross representative today (Aug. 3), the president’s office said, the first publicised meeting between her and a foreign official since she was ousted in a 2021 coup. The military deposed Suu Kyi in February 2021,
Read more11 illegal workers arrested in Pattaya crackdown
A CRACKDOWN on illegal employment at Pattaya’s Walking Street led to the arrest of 11 foreigners working here without permits, TV Channel 7 said this afternoon (July 19). Mr. Sekasit Sawanyathipati, deputy director-general of the Labour Ministry’s Department of Employment and head of the Centre for the Prevention and Suppression of Illegal Labour, led
Read moreAnutin invites Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing to visit Thailand
THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul invited Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing to visit the country during a meeting with visiting Myanmar Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe this afternoon (July 14), Amarin TV said this evening. Ms. Rachada Thanadirek, spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office, said Anutin reiterated to the Myanmar minister during his courtesy
Read moreUpdate – Myanmar man wanted for brutally murdering girlfriend nabbed in Yangon
MYANMAR police have apprehended one of their citizens who brutally murdered and dismembered his girlfriend at a flat in Bangkok and then fled across the border at Yangon (Rangoon) today (June 13), Amarin TV said this evening. After an arrest warrant was issued for Mr. Aung Pyae, 36, Thai police had contacted their Myanmar
Read moreArrest warrant issued for Myanmar man who brutally killed girlfriend and fled
AN ARREST warrant has been issued for a Myanmar man charged with brutally murdering and dismembering his girlfriend, whose body parts were found stuffed in a plastic box at an apartment in Bangkok and has now fled to his home country, Amarin TV said today (June 13). Pol. Col. Sakya Saengwan, deputy commander of
Read moreMyanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest
By Grant Peck, AP and published by Yahoo!News MYANMAR’S detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest, state television announced Thursday night (April 30). Myanmar’s military information office confirmed the news through a text message to the press. Accompanying the announcement was a photo of the 80-year-old
Read moreRare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening ‘the world’s kitchen’
By Anton L. Delgado and Aniruddha Ghosal, AP, and published by Yahoo!News Chiang Saen, Thailand – Perched on the bow of his long-tail fishing boat, 75-year-old Sukjai Yana untangled a handful of small fish from his net, disappointed by his catch and fretting over whether he can sell them. Some days Yana earns nothing:
Read moreMyanmar considering ‘good things’ for detained Aung San Suu Kyi: Thailand
By Reuters – published by CNA and Thai Newsroom MYANMAR’S new president is considering “good things” for detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Thailand’s foreign minister said on Wednesday (April 22), as the country seeks to normalise ties with regional bloc Association of Southeast Asian Nations after five years on the sidelines. The
Read moreSecurity beefed up after Myanmar bomb lands in Thailand
SECURITY has been stepped up at Mae Hong Son’s Mae Sariang district after a Myanmar junta fighter jet dropped a bomb there while bombarding a Karen National Union (KNU) military hospital in Karen province’s Hpapun district on Monday (April 20), Naewna newspaper said this morning (April 22). Mr. Worasak Panthong, Mae Sariang’s district chief,
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