Over the years Mae Sot has become an uneasy refuge for Burmese on the run. It has the feel of Cold War Berlin about it, or of Casablanca in the famous eponymous movie. It is a town full of exiles, ...

The cabinet has approved a proposal to develop Mae Sot district in Tak province into a special economic zone on the Thai-Myanmar border. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) ...

Silently, the boatman steered his vessel across the still water, propelling it forward by pushing against the riverbed with his long wooden pole. His two passengers didn't bother sitting down. In half ...

TAK: Thailand is counting on a new bridge connecting with Myanmar to increase border trade between the two countries. Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said after opening the second Thai-Myanmar ...

A view of the Sunshine Care Center (SCC) in Mae Sot, Thailand, which provides care for those wounded in Myanmar’s ongoing conflict. Credit: Hannah Oo Subscribe for ads-free reading MAE SOT, ...

A soldier for an anti-junta People’s Defense Force militia shows off a wound in Mae Sot, Thailand, that he believes was caused by an AK-47 bullet during a recent battle with the Myanmar military.

They successfully fled the brutal military regime, but their path seldom led to a happier life. In Thailand, greedy entrepreneurs have been quick to exploit illegal immigrants from Burma. They are ...

MAE SOT, Thailand — Thailand’s foreign minister on Friday said he urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, ...

The bamboo and leaf-thatch shelter in the middle of a sugarcane field hardly looks like a safehouse. But that is where 23-year-old Sanjay - his choice of a pseudonym - and eight others have been ...

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