Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan met with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing on February 20, during which he affirmed that Singapore is full of expectations for cooperation with China in various fields.
CHIANG RAI: The first Thailand-Myanmar friendship bridge, linking Mae Sai district and Tachilek, was reopened on Monday morning nearly three years after it was closed because of the Covid-19 epidemic, much to the delight of people on both sides of the border.
A border crossing between Myanmar and Thailand reopened today, three years after it closed due to the pandemic. Today marked the reopening of the Mae Sai-Tachileik checkpoint and Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge connecting Chiang Rai province to Myanmar’s Tachileik province with a ceremony attended by local VIPs. People from the Thai…
A film director was repatriated from Myanmar on Tuesday morning after his family claimed that he had been kidnapped for ransom by the United Wa State Army (UWSA) since Jan 4. However, Myanmar authorities insisted that he had entered the UWSA's territory of his own free will.
Bilateral talks over illegal migrants
Cooperation sees all new arrivals halted
published : 22 Dec 2020 at 04:00
The government is reviewing its guidelines over migrant workers in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon.
Tanee Sangrat, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), said yesterday that Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai had discussed the matter with Myanmar s Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin on Sunday, with both committed to preventing the trafficking of workers.
Mr Tanee said the government currently had no intention of allowing in migrant workers from neighbouring countries during the pandemic but the Labour Ministry was considering how this could best resume in the future.