BANGKOK Governor Chadchart Sittipunt this afternoon (March 28) declared Bangkok a disaster zone after a powerful earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale centred at Myanmar’s Mandalay city rattled the metropolis with tremors also felt across the country, Naewna newspaper said He said the earthquake at 1.20 p.m. had damaged many buildings in the
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Strong quake leads to building being built in Chatuchak collapsing
A POWERFUL earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale centred at Myanmar’s Mandalay city this afternoon (March 28) was felt in Thailand with many highrise buildings swaying and one building under construction in Bangkok’s Chatuchak area collapsing, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said. The Aeronautical Radio Centre of Thailand said it has temporarily suspended
Read moreMyanmar releases 4 Thai fishermen, 3 Filipinos
MYANMAR’S State Planning and Administration Council sent a letter to the border authorities of Dawei district late last night (March 27) notifying that the sentences of four Thai fishermen and three Filipinos have been reduced and waived and they are now to be deported, Thai Rath newspaper said early this morning. The four Thai
Read moreMyanmar soldiers flee to Thailand as Karens seize base
SOME Myanmar soldiers crossed the Moei river to Thailand overnight after Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) fighters attacked their base opposite Tak province with many others having died in the fighting, Amarin TV said this morning (March 14). At 00.10 a.m. KNLA’s 7th Infantry Division launched their attack on Myanmar army’s 31st Infantry Battalion
Read moreMyanmar to send workers to Russian construction sites
By Yu Phyu Ha, The Irrawaddy MYANMAR will start sending workers to Russia in April, according to overseas employment agencies, The Irrawaddy news website said yesterday (March 3). The two regimes have been working on a memorandum of understanding to employ Myanmar workers in Russia’s manufacturing, construction, and agriculture and livestock sectors. The first
Read moreLight quake hits Phichit at 2 a.m. after two rock Myanmar
A LIGHT earthquake measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale with one kilometre depth shook Phichit province at 2.13 a.m. today (Feb. 28) with the epicenter being at Nong Phra subdistrict, Wang Sai Phun district, following two that rocked Myanmar yesterday, Amarin TV said. Myanmar was first hit by a 2.9 earthquake at 8.33 a.m.
Read more‘Escaping hell’: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
By AFP and published by CNA Myawaddy – Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from
Read moreKaren leader arrests 2 call-centre gang leaders
KAREN Border Guard Force (BGF) leader Saw Chit Thu has arrested two Chinese bosses of call-centre operations in Myawaddy township, just across the border from Mae Sot town, with the pair being among seven wanted by China, TV Channel 7 said late afternoon today (Feb. 19). The Karen leader, who is himself being investigated
Read moreCyber Police in about-face on scam workers: Most were trafficked
THE Cyber Police said most of the 260 scam workers who have been screened are victims with only two to three having volunteered to work for the call-centre criminals rather just one of them being trafficked as earlier stated, Amarin TV said today (Feb. 17). Pol. Lt. Gen. Trairong Phiwphan, head of the Technology
Read moreOil exports to Laos jump 50% after cut in supplies to Myanmar
THE NUMBER of oil tankers crossing the border from Thailand’s Chiang Rai province to Laos suspiciously doubled to 90 after supplies to Myanmar were suspended on Feb. 10 soon after electricity was cut off on Feb. 5 to suppress scam centres in Tachileik township, just across from Mae Sai town on the Thai side,
Read moreFriendship 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 moreOnly 1% of returning scam centre workers are victims: Police
A SENIOR police officer said only 1% of workers at scam hubs in neighbouring countries were lured by the gangsters with the rest having willingly joined their transnational criminal bosses in scamming victims worldwide, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Feb. 13). Pol. Gen. Thatchai Pitaneelabut, head of the Centre for the Protection of Children,
Read more7,000 scam hub victims being sent to Thailand from Myanmar
AS MANY AS 7,000 victims of call centre gangs holed up along the Thai-Myanmar border are being released and sent across to Thailand on top of 261 who did so today (Feb. 12), Amarin TV said, Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumthan Wechayachai said he got word of 261 scam operation victims coming across at
Read morePhumtham moving to cut power, Internet, fuel supply to Cambodia
AFTER cutting electricity, Internet and fuel supply from five points to Myanmar border townships where scam centres are operating Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai is now expanding this strategy to three districts and an island in four provinces along the Thai-Cambodian border to suppress transnational criminals holed up across that border, Naewna newspaper
Read moreTwo senior police officers shunted out amid probe over Myawaddy scam hub links
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Kitrat Phanphet today (Feb. 11) transferred two senior police officers, commander of 5th Immigration Bureau and commander of Tak provincial police, while investigation is undertaken to determine whether they are linked to the scam hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township and human trafficking, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Ekkarat
Read morePolice seeking arrest warrant for Karen rebel leader
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION is currently taking steps to get a court-endorsed arrest warrant for Karen Border Guard Force leader Saw Chit Thu on charges of alleged involvement in crimes across the Thai-Myanmar border, according to a government official. Saw Chit Thu has been suspected by Thai authorities as
Read moreKaren rebel leader may be nabbed for alleged involvement in transnational crimes
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED government was today (Feb. 10) encouraged to have Karen rebel leader Saw Chit Thu arrested on charges of alleged involvement in crimes perpetrated across the Thai-Myanmar border. People’s MP Rangsiman Rome posted on his Facebook page to prompt the Pheu Thai-led government to manage to get an
Read moreKK Park scam hub dark on 4th night of power cut
ON THE fourth night of Thailand cutting electricity, Internet and fuel supply from five points to Myanmar aimed at suppressing scammers holed up along the border the notorious scam centre KK Park in Myawaddy township, just across from Mae Sot town, is dark with only 20 to 30% of the lights switched on, TV
Read moreMyanmar trawler, long-tail boat seized for encroaching on Thai waters
THE Thai navy last night (Feb. 7-8) seized two Myanmar vessels, one trawler and the other a long-tail boat, that encroached on Thai waters near Ranong province and rounded up 13 crew members including the skipper for questioning, Amarin TV said. Vice Admiral Suwat Donsakul, commander of 3rd Naval Area and director of the
Read moreAs Payathonzu people struggle in the dark, Chinese gangs enjoy all-night karaoke session
AS PEOPLE in Myanmar’s Payathonzu township, opposite Sangkhlaburi district of Kanchanaburi, struggle to live without electricity after Thailand cut off supply on Wednesday morning (Feb. 5) the Chinese gangs there used generators to run a karaoke at an entertainment venue singing happily all night long, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said today. Aside from
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