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Thailand's Provincial energy Authority (PEA) has turned off energy supply over the Moei river to two border towns in Myanmar

TAK: The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand has cut off the supply of electricity across the Moei river to two border towns in Myanmar where groups of Chinese businessmen have made huge illegal investments, at the request of the Myanmar government, Thai official sources said.

International media and law enforcement are waking up to a new post-COVID trend in transnational crime: the proliferation of criminally run zones in Myanmar and across Southeast Asia, and an explosion of human trafficking for labor in these ungoverned enclaves.

Thai women arrested for illegal entry 14 published : 19 Jul 2021 at 11:25 14 The eight women arrested for illegally entering Mae Sot district, Tak, from Myawaddy on Monday morning. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong) TAK: Eight Thai women were arrested by soldiers after they illegally crossed the Moei River from Myanmar into Mae Sot district early on Monday morning. The women, who were carrying personal baggage, were caught by a patrol from the 4th I...

Seventeen Burmese workers were arrested on the Thai side of the border on June 9 for illegally crossing the Myanmar-Thai border.