Mae Sot News

Thailand has started searching for a suitable location to build the second Thailand-Burma Friendship Bridge on the Moei River even as the Thai Deputy Commerce Minister is slated to visit Burma to discuss border trade. Tak provincial officials are surveying...

An announcement by the Thai government that is has approved the development of a Special Economic Zone along its border with Burma has received mixed reactions from a Burma economics expert. The Thai cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal from...

The sources told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that the landowners are afraid they will not receive any compensation from the Burmese authorities. Police in Kyuakphyu Township told them that the order to confiscate property came from Naypyidaw. Maung Phyu, one...

Wife of Col Ner Dah Mya, the son of late KNU leader Gen Bo Mya, has been detained after police found powder for making explosives at his house, KNU sources said. The purpose of the raids is not clear and...

Zeb Hogan, biologist at the University of Nevada went to Thailand looking for the giant fish as part of the National Geographic Megafishes Project. Luckily Hogan found the giant stingray fish that weighed an estimated 550 to 990 pounds (250...