MAE SOT - Tak border police were on alert as foreign scammers fled a heavy Myanmar crackdown and poured into Mae Sot. Another large group has slipped across the Moei River into Mae Sot after Myanmar troops stepped up raids.

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MAE SOT - Lt Gen Worathep Boonya, Commander of the 3rd Army Region, met military, police, provincial officials, immigration officers, and related agencies at the Huai Hin Fon checkpoint on the Tak–Mae Sot road in Mae Pa to reinforce measures against…

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TAK — The Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau from China’s Ministry of Public Security crossed the border into Myanmar to take custody of 14 key members of a Chinese call center scam and 80 related workers.

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TAK - Fighting has flared up again along the Thai-Myanmar border as Karen armed groups used drones to drop explosives on a Myanmar military base near the Thai province of Tak.

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Thailand's Defense Minister announced today that the border in Tak province will be temporarily closed for a month to prevent the spread of cholera, which is currently affecting the adjacent city of Shwe Kokko, Myanmar .

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