Chiang Saen Immigration Thailand-Myanmar Border Crossing Checkpoint in Chiang Rai

7,000 Myanmar citizens seeking Thai visas

More than 7,000 Myanmar nationals have applied for visas with the Thai embassy in Yangon as mandatory conscription looms in the military-ruled country, figures from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs show.

Blinken backs Thai proposal for humanitarian corridor in Myanmar

Spokeswoman Kanchana Patarachoke said the embassy had doubled the number of online queue tickets available to 800 a day: 400 issued by the embassy and another 400 by VFS Global, an outsourcing and services company used by diplomatic missions worldwide.

Full story: Bangkok Post

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