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Tak closes crossing after Covid test find

The northern province of Tak on Saturday sealed its border shared with Myanmar’s Myawaddy after three more Myanmar nationals in Mae Sot border district tested positive for the new coronavirus that causes Covid-19.That prompted the Myanmar town to close its immigration checkpoint on the opposite ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

National forest reserve encroached in Mae Sot

Three large tracts of woodland — about 45 rai altogether — were found to have been encroached on inside the Mae Sot National Forest Reserve in Phop Phra district, according to a local media report. The encroachment was reported to the 6th Forest Protection Unit ...

Assawin Pinitwong

Calls grow to turn Tak into proper SEZ

TAK: An ambitious plan to turn the border village of Kokko in Myanmar into a new Chinatown has sparked calls for the Thai government to speed up making Tak a fully fledged special economic zone (SEZ). The huge investments from Chinese businessmen in Kokko, opposite ...

Assawin Pinitwong

Thai-Myanmar border commerce to double by 2026

The value of border trade between Thailand and Myanmar is expected to double to UScopy2 billion by 2026, says the assistant spokesman of the Prime Minister’s Office. The cabinet has approved the proposed draft of policies and initiatives for the ninth Meeting of the Myanmar-Thailand ...

Myanmar refugees returning from Thailand but Rakhine still out of bounds: UN Refugee Agency

Thailand has repatriated nearly 100 mostly Karen and Karenni refugees to Myanmar from border camps in Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces, where they had fled conflict between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic groups over the past three decades.Keep reading ...

The Nation Reporter

Air pollution eases in North, but increases in Bangkok

Smog has receded in the North, but the level of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) has increased in the Bangkok metropolitan area, where it is lingering around the safe limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air.The measurement of PM2.5 levels as ...

Chiang Mai, Mae Sot reel under severe air pollution

Chiang Mai and Mae Sot district in Tak province continued to suffer from severe air pollution caused by seasonal smog, as particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) in these two areas rose beyond safe levels, posing serious health threats to local people.The air quality ...

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