Prachuap Khiri Khan – Singkhorn temporary checkpoint on the border with Myanmar has been upgraded and will be opened as a new permanent pass on Wednesday. (more…)
Burmese migrants, who have arrived ‘legally’ in Thailand under a bilateral agreement intended to boost labour flows between the two countries, continue to be systematically exploited and abused by their Thai employers, activists have warned.
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Thai border forces are still investigating the cause of a March 22 fire that killed 38 people and displaced over 2,000 more in the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp. According to local police under the authority of Colonel Naruchit, 300 of 400 witnesses have been questioned since the blaze.
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Following the recent fire that killed 39 refugees and destroyed the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp, people living in camps along the Thai Burma border are scared that their respective camps are firetraps. (more…)
There was no border clash between armed Thai men and Myanmar soldiers on Friday as reported by some media, Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said on Saturday. (more…)
In an unprecedented move, Burmese state authorities made donations to a refugee camp in Thailand on Wednesday, to support ongoing relief efforts for the refugees who were caught in a deadly fire on March 22. (more…)
Thai border forces tightened security at Ban Mae Surin refugee camp in Mae Hong Son Province on Sunday, where a blaze earlier in March killed 38 people and displaced more than 2,000. (more…)
Two more checkpoints will be open on the Myanmar-Thai border upon completion of the border’s demarcation, according to the Border Trade Department.
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The blaze that raged through the Mae Surin refugee camp in Mae Hong Son’s Khun Yuam district on Friday was probably an accident, National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general Paradorn Pattanatabut said.
Several hundred Burmese migrant workers at a shrimp factory in Thailand are protesting what they say is exploitation by Burmese and Thai employment agencies. (more…)
The fire that ravaged Mae Surin refugee camp on Friday was not an accident, embattled Khun Yuam district police chief Pol Col Nitinart Wittayawuthikul claimed Tuesday. (more…)
At least 42 Myanmar refugees have died in a raging fire at a camp in Thailand, officials have said. (more…)
More than 2,300 refugees who became homeless when fire destroyed their shelters in Mae Surin refugee camp, in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Province, have received immediate assistance but need supplies to rebuild their homes. (more…)
Ma Kyi, a 30-year old widow, wonders whether she will ever be able to return home. She is among 3,600 newly displaced people staying at Basic Education High School No. 1, in the central Myanmar town of Meiktila, following deadly sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims residents last week. (more…)
At least 32 Myanmar refugees died Friday in a raging fire at a camp in Thailand, officials said.
Crop seeds and pesticides from Bangladesh are illegally entering into Myanmar through border areas and they are sold along with the domestic pesticides at the crop seeds shop. (more…)
Slain troops dumped in ravines, mortars raining down from above and helicopter gunships firing rockets into guerrilla camps. These are the ugly scenes Myanmar’s new wave of reformist rulers were supposed to resign to history. (more…)
Thousands of job-seekers from all over Burma have seen their hopes of finding work in neighboring Thailand dissolve as agents fail to follow through on promises of employment, leaving many to languish in the border town of Myawaddy as they try to decide their next move. (more…)
Burmese police seized around US $140,000 worth of pseudo-ephedrine-based cold and flu tablets and a large cache of weapons in Tamu, Sagaing Division, on Sunday, according to local sources and state-media reports. (more…)
Protesters in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai expressed outrage on Friday at remarks made by a lawmaker from Burma’s ruling party calling for the use of extreme force to bring the conflict in the country’s north to an end. (more…)