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TAK, Thailand – A Chinese actor’s recent rescue from a criminal compound has exposed the operations of at least three major Chinese grey capital groups operating along the Myanmar border opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot district, running enterprises rangi... (confirmed by 2 sources) [1]

Mizzima Written by Khine Wathan and Phyo Lay It was a harrowing night filled with the sounds of gunfire, the screams of terrified people, and the splashing of those swimming across the Moei River, known in Burmese as the Thaungyin River. [3]

Locals in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township—a major border trade hub with Thailand—have dismissed the junta’s claim that it demolished dozens of illegal border trade gates and warehouses along the Moei River separating Myanmar and Thailand. [4]

Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in Mae Hong Son while in Tak, the level of the Moei River has risen to a dangerous red alert level. In Mae Hong Son’s Sob Moei district, [5]

Almost 50 junta soldiers fled across the Moei River from Karen State to Thailand’s Tak province on Tuesday following an attack by joint resistance forces on another junta base near the border. [6]

Sources
[1] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2025-01-09 · 100% match

Chinese grey capital groups expand operations across Moei River from Thailand’s Tak province

TAK, Thailand – A Chinese actor’s recent rescue from a criminal compound has exposed the operations of at least three major Chinese grey capital groups operating along the Myanmar border opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot district, running enterprises rangi

[2] MM www2.irrawaddy.com · 100% match

Thailand, Burma Agree to Close Ports on Moei River

[3] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-09-04 · 100% match

A bond between human and canine amid political crisis in Myanmar

Mizzima Written by Khine Wathan and Phyo Lay It was a harrowing night filled with the sounds of gunfire, the screams of terrified people, and the splashing of those swimming across the Moei River, known in Burmese as the Thaungyin River.

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-11-12 · 100% match

Illegal Border Trade Thrives as Myanmar Junta’s Crackdown Exposed as Sham

Locals in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township—a major border trade hub with Thailand—have dismissed the junta’s claim that it demolished dozens of illegal border trade gates and warehouses along the Moei River separating Myanmar and Thailand.

[5] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2023-08-05 · 100% match

Heavy rainfall causes floods, overflows in many provinces

Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in Mae Hong Son while in Tak, the level of the Moei River has risen to a dangerous red alert level. In Mae Hong Son’s Sob Moei district,

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-03-20 · 100% match

Myanmar Junta Soldiers Flee to Thailand as War Escalates Near Border

Almost 50 junta soldiers fled across the Moei River from Karen State to Thailand’s Tak province on Tuesday following an attack by joint resistance forces on another junta base near the border.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-11-05 · 100% match

A Town So Close, But Yet So Far

As part of our ‘Stories That Shaped Us’ series, we revisit this 2011 feature about the Thai border town Mae Sot, where most of the inhabitants are from Myanmar and the Burmese language, cuisine and culture predominate.

[8] TH world.thaipbs.or.th · 2025-11-28 · 100% match

Suspected scammers camp out near Thai border, seeking escape to Mae Sot district

More than 600 suspected scammers, most of them Chinese nationals, have been camping out since Wednesday on the bank of the Moei River in Myanmar, opposite Mae Sot district of Thailand’s Tak province, after they had escaped a crackdown on online call

[9] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-04-23 · 91% match

Friendship Bridge No. 1 between Myawaddy and Mae Sot closed

Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge No. 1 on April 12 Mizzima The Myanmar junta closed the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge No. 1, between Myawaddy in Myanmar and Mae Sot in Thailand, to anyone coming from Myanmar.

[10] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2026-01-21 · 75% match

Chinese nationals trapped and tortured at Myanmar scam compound operated by son of DKBA leader

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