BANGKOK, July 16 – The Myanmar authorities will first release about ten Thai women and children who were detained during a land encroachment incident earlier this month, Deputy Prime Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa said today.

The deputy prime minister reported progress in helping 92 Thai detainees still in Myanmar saying that a group of Thai officials with a Burmese language interpreter will travel to Koh Song to visit the detainees and to help them regarding their basic living conditions.

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