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COVID requirements and high employment fees mean some will try to enter the country illegally.

Hundreds of residents of Lay Kay Kaw, a small town controlled by Karen Guerrillas in Myanmar, have fled the country after Myanmar's military unleashed airstrikes and heavy artillery near the Thai Border.

Myanmar airstrikes displace more people along Thai-Myanmar border

VIENTIANE, Jan 12 (Xinhua): Local authorities have been urged to monitor border crossings to prevent people from entering Laos illegally from Thailand, to stem the spread of Covid-19 after a widespread outbreak in Thailand. Many Lao workers are returning home from Thailand, both legally and illegally, sparking fears of a second wave of Covid-19 in Laos, local daily Vientiane Times on Tuesday quoted Deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under ...

A returning migrant worker receiving supplies from city hall officers at a quarantine centre at the Serei Sophoan town hall in Banteay Meanchey province. - Phnom Penh Post/Asian News Network PHNOM PENH, Jan 11 (dpa): Cambodian authorities remain on alert as Covid-19 cases from Thailand continue to climb among returning migrant workers. Cambodias Ministry of Health on Monday reported that 27 of the country’s 392 cases were linked to the outbreak in Thailand. The most recent was...

Local Militia Officer Behind Controversial Chinese Casino Hub on Thai-Myanmar Border Quits BGF members on the Asia Highway in Myawaddy Township, Karen State / Kyaw Kha / The Irrawaddy 3.8k By Htun Htun 11 January 2021 YANGON—Major Saw Maw Tho, also known as Saw Mote Thone, who was the second-highest-ranking officer in the Karen State Border Guard Force (BGF), which is implementing a new city project with alleged ties to Chinese mafia on the Myanmar-Thai border, resigned on Saturday, accordi...

That for a little while. >> rob? >> i think the story hes refurring to, it made a lot of sense to me, it did. he tried to put everyone in the shoes of the pilots and saying, if an emergency occurred, what would you do? we would have all looked for a place to land. we wouldnt have gone straight ahead toward vietnam, ho chi mihn city. when i looked at the map, i saw the runway he mentioned, its certainly there, its great, but there are also a couple places in between. theres one at the malaysian/t...