TAK, 28 November 2010 (NNT) – Over 1,000 Myanmar refugees have once again crossed over the Thai border to seek shelters in Mae Sot district, Tak Province after an exchange of gun fires between the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and the Burmese troops on Saturday night. The sound of gun fires could be heard […]
BANGKOK, Nov 15 — More than 200 ethnic Karen escaped fresh fighting between Myanmar troops and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) late Sunday night to Ban Wale in Tak’s Phop Phra district. The DKBA reportedly fired mortars and small weapons at Myanmar soldiers and both sides exchanged gunfire sporadically late last night. The combined […]
Spillover of fighting in Burma injures Thais Rocket propelled grenade fired during skirmish between Burmese troops and rebels landed on the Thai side in Tak province, reportedly killing one Thai and wounding three others. Fighting broke out Monday between Burmese troops and rebels belonging to the Karen ethnic minority who seized key government offices in […]
TAK, Nov 7– Myanmar soldiers were deployed along Thai-Myanmar border at the Moei River after a Japanese journalist was arrested in Myanmar’s Myawaddy for illegally crossing the border from Thailand. Responding to the detention of the Japanese journalist late Sunday morning, the combined forces of Myanmar military and Border Guard Force personnel have been stationed […]
Surin – Some 50 troops were deployed to prevent local villagers from clashing with some 200 supporters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy here Saturday. The PAD supporters were heading to the Ta Muen Thom Temple in Ban Nong Khanna village in Tambon Tamien in Phanom Dongrak district at 4 pm when about 100 local […]
The government should abandon its military approach and persue three-step peaceful means to quell violence in the three southernmost provinces, a Muslim leader said on Tuesday. “The social strife can not be resolved by the military,” Kariya Kijjarak said in his capacity as confederation chairman of the 15 Central Islamic Committees representing the South. Kariya […]
Three soldiers have been injured when an improvised bomb went off as the troops were leaving their outpost in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat. A 5-kilogram bomb planted under a small pile of sand exploded on Friday morning in front of the soldiers’ outpost in the Bacho district of Narathiwat town as an eight-man patrol […]
BANGKOK, Sept 16 – Thailand’s CentralWorld shopping complex –thecountry’s largest– will reopen for shoppers September 28, according to Central Pattana president and chief executive officer, Kobchai Chirathivat. CentralWorld, Thailand’s largest shopping complex and the second largest in Southeast Asia, was set afire by allegedly disgruntled Red Shirt protesters after their protest leaders surrendered to police […]
