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YANGON: Myanmar’s deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention today (June 19), serving a raft of sentences set to last the rest of her life.

Thursday 19 June 2025 11:29 AM

Three Myanmar nationals arrested for working illegally at Downtown Market

PHUKET: Phuket City Police have arrested three Myanmar nationals for working without the proper authorisation at a mobile phone shop in the Talat Nuea area of Phuket Town.

Friday 23 May 2025 09:30 AM

Phuket officials schooled on education rights for migrant children

PHUKET: Phuket officials were given firsthand training this week on the rights of migrant workers’ children to free education in Thailand, and on how to bring them into the formal education system.

Sunday 18 May 2025 10:00 AM

Charges imminent in Bangkok building collapse

BANGKOK: Police are preparing to charge engineers and state audit officials for their roles that contributed to the collapse of the State Audit Office (SAO) building in Bangkok during the Mar 28 earthquake.

Thursday 8 May 2025 09:09 AM

Labourers raise B150K for Vachira cancer centre

PHUKET: Phuket provincial officials marked National Labour Day 2025 yesterday (May 1) with the event ‘Labourers for the Light’. raising more than B150,000 to support the construction of the province’s first government cancer centre at Vachira Phuket Hospital.

Friday 2 May 2025 02:39 PM

Accused Thai nominees in collapsed-tower builder held in custody

BANGKOK: Three Thai men suspected of being nominees for a Chinese state-owned construction firm, a major partner in the collapsed state audit building, were arraigned in court yesterday (Apr 22).

Wednesday 23 April 2025 09:00 AM

Wanted: Industry figures brand migrant workers ‘vital’ for Phuket

PHUKET: Amid a campaign by officials targetting Myanmar migrant workers on the island, and amid much derision against foreign workers in comments online many Thais, several key local industry figures have come to the defence of Phuket’s migrant workforce, saying plainly that the development of Phuket relies on foreign workers, mostly from Myanmar, to fill labour shortages in industries vital for the island.

Saturday 12 April 2025 09:00 AM

Quake-hit Myanmar’s junta chief to head to Bangkok summit

MANDALAY: The head of the Myanmar junta is expected to travel to Bangkok today (Apr 3) for a regional summit, six days after the country ruled by his armed forces was pummelled by a devastating earthquake.

Thursday 3 April 2025 10:31 AM

Aftershocks rattle Mandalay as rescuers search for survivors in Myanmar quake

MYANMAR: Residents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings Sunday (Mar 30) searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,600 people in Myanmar.

Sunday 30 March 2025 10:16 AM

Phuket raids target Myanmar worker camps

PHUKET: Phuket officials have conducted a series of raids targeting Myanmar workers under the banner of an “ongoing effort to crack down on illegal immigration and uncover any unlawful activities”.

Thursday 27 March 2025 04:52 PM

Thai border security measures to intensify amid criminal threat

BANGKOK: The government is intensifying border security measures amid the rising threat of transnational crimes.

Monday 24 March 2025 09:00 AM

Phuket officials raid ‘literacy centre’ for Myanmar children

PHUKET: Raids on the charity operations run by the Good Shepherd Foundation have continued with officials from the Thalang District Office conducting an “inspection” of the BanYa LIteracy Center in Srisoonthorn.

Wednesday 19 March 2025 05:32 PM

Phuket officials raid free charity school for Myanmar children

PHUKET: Following a popular YouTuber posting a video highlighting the biggest slum community on the island, Phuket officials in their wisdom have raided a free charity-run school that provides free education and free lunches to children in the area.

Tuesday 18 March 2025 10:24 AM

YouTuber ‘Gabi’ spotlights Phuket slum

Monday 17 March 2025 12:43 PM

War of words: Myanmar migrants face disinformation in Thailand

BANGKOK: More than a million people have fled Myanmar’s brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where experts say nationalists are using disinformation to fuel prejudice against them.

Friday 14 March 2025 11:38 AM

Body of Myanmar fisherman found between Krabi, Phuket

PHUKET: Police are investigating the death of a Myanmar fisherman whose body was found dead in the sea between Phuket and Krabi yesterday (Mar 12), hours after he was reported missing from a fishing boat.

Thursday 13 March 2025 11:31 AM

Thailand and neighbours set up anti-haze hotline

BANGKOK: Thailand, Myanmar and Laos have agreed to set up a special hotline as part of a three-nation effort to curb transboundary haze pollution, with levels of the hazardous PM2.5 dust expected to shoot up again later this week.

Wednesday 26 February 2025 11:00 AM

Myanmar returns first batch of Chinese scam workers to Thailand

MAE SOT: Myanmar handed over the first batch of hundreds of Chinese scam centre workers today (Feb 20) who are set to be repatriated through Thailand in the coming days.

Thursday 20 February 2025 10:39 AM

Myanmar man arrested for attempted rape