Tag: Myanmar
Karen man arrested after beheading girlfriend
A YOUNG Karen man with a 20,000 baht bounty offered for his capture for beheading his girlfriend and removing her heart was caught today (Sept. 18) after a massive hunt near the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak province, Thai Rath newspaper reported. The shocking murder of Ms. Ann, 17, at her house in Mae Ramat district …
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Covid-19 infected boy’s parents worked in Korat, Ayutthaya
THAI health officials have found out that the parents of the two-year-old Myanmar boy who tested positive for coronavirus after the family crossed over to Myawaddy from Mae Sot border town had worked in Nakhon Ratchasima (also known as Korat) and very briefly in Ayutthaya province, Siam Rath newspaper reported today (Sept. 17, 2020). Dr. …
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Myanmar 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, …
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Korean man returning home from Thailand infected with Covid-19
WHILE one Thai man returning from India was found to be infected with Covid-19 over the past 24 hours till morning (Sept. 7) and he has been placed in state quarantine, South Korea too has found that one of their nationals returning from Thailand has tested positive for this disease, Thai Rath newspaper reported. The …
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Video clip of illegal aliens crossing into Thailand sparks fear online
ALTHOUGH governors of provinces bordering Myanmar have been told to step up control of natural crossings to prevent Myanmar job-seekers from slipping through, with the neighbouring country now hit by a second wave of Covid-19 outbreak, many of them continue trying to illegally get across, Sanook.com reported today (Sept. 6, 2020). The well-known Mor Lab …
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Condo scaffolding collapse kills two Myanmar workers
THE SUDDEN collapse of a section of the scaffolding at a high-rise condominium being built in Chonburi province led to two Myanmar workers dying on the spot and two other being injured, one seriously, INN News reported today (August 16, 2020). Pol. Capt. Suchart Charoensri, an investigator at Sansuk police station in this province, rushed …
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Thailand: 19 Myanmar returnees had recovered before going home
IMMIGRATION Police said today (June 23) an investigation of reports from Myanmar that some of the workers returning from Thailand were found to be infected with Covid-19 revealed that 19 of them had recovered from this infection before going home, INN News reported. Pol Lt Gen Sompong Chingduang , head of the Immigration Bureau, said …
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Chinese, 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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Nigerian, Myanmar romance scammers nabbed
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOUR NIGERIAN males and a Myanmar male were arrested today on online romance scamming charges in Hua Hin, police said. The police who acted on tip-offs to the faux romance scams arrested the Nigerian and Myanmar nationals who had allegedly preyed on Thai females, seeking to develop intimate relationships with well-to-do …
Majority of departing Myanmar workers unlikely to return
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MOST MYANMAR migrant workers who have left Thailand for home across the border have been found unlikely to come back again for jobs. Suphaphimit Paorik, a deputy governor of Tak province, said today (May 28) up to three-fourths of 1,800-plus Myanmar nationals, who have recently departed Thailand via Mae Sot district …
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