Phu Nam Rom border crossing reopened for freight
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Phu Nam Rom border crossing reopened for freight
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40 illegal border crossers arrested on western border
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published : 2 May 2021 at 13:47
2 Forty Myanmar migrants are arrested by soldiers in Muang district of Kanchanaburi on Saturday after they illegally entered the country. (Photo by Piyarach Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI: Patrols from the Lat Ya Task Force on Saturday arrested 40 Myanmar migrant workers after they crossed the frontier into this western border province.
They arrived in two groups.
At about 1.30pm, acting on a tip-off from informants deployed along the border, a patrol found eight Myanmar migrants - three men and five women - near Phu Nam Rom village in tambon Ban Kao of Muang district. They were accompanied by two guides, who were also arrested.
Border trade briefly resumes in Kanchanaburi
published : 3 Feb 2021 at 16:28
21 Loaded pickups queue at the Phu Nam Rom checkpoint in Muang district of Kanchanburi, after the border reopened on Wednesday for two days of trading. (Photo: Piyarat Chongchareon)
KANCHANABURI: Trade between Thailand and Myanmar resumed in Kanchanaburi province on Wednesday after Thai authorities temporarily eased Covid-19 restrictions.
Loaded trucks converged on the Ban Phu Nam Ron checkpoint in Muang district and the Three Pagodas crossing in Sangkhla Buri district, as the province allowed trading for two days.
Consumer goods and construction materials were transferred from Thai vehicles to lorries from Myanmar at the border in the two districts.