Mae Sot checkpoint remains open with Myanmar trucks still rolling in
SMALL Myanmar trucks continued to cross over to Thailand via the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge at Mae Sot border town despite three drivers having recently tested positive for coronavirus with this triggering a protest yesterday to completely shut the border, Siam Rath reported today (October 12, 2020). These Myanmar trucks all stopped at the loading […]
Read MoreFrantic Covid-19 testing in Mae Sot after infected Thai crosses over from Myanmar
FEAR gripped Mae Sot town on the border with Myanmar after a Thai businessman who crossed over today (Oct. 8) tested positive for coronavirus with doctors and officials frantically testing cargo vehicle drivers coming over the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, Sanook.com reported. The Thai businessman was only found to be infected with this deadly infection after […]
Read MoreMyanmar boy infected with Covid-19 crossed over by natural route
THE two-year-old Myanmar boy who was found to be infected with Covid-19 at Myawaddy town, across the border from Thailand’s Mae Sot town, on Sunday September 13 after departing Thailand on September 4 did not go across via the official checkpoint but through one of 50 natural channels, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Sept. 16, […]
Read MoreChinese, Myanmar and Thai online gamblers nabbed at border town
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A LARGE HORDE OF 180 Chinese, Myanmar and Thai nationals were arrested yesterday (June 17) on charges of gambling online at a newly-built hotel in the Thai-Myanmar border district of Mae Sot, police said. The police and other authorities raided the hotel in downtown Mae Sot, arrested the 180 suspected gamblers […]
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