Thailand
- News
About 250 people feared missing after boat capsizes in Andaman Sea: UN
The trawler “reportedly sank due to heavy winds, rough seas, and overcrowding,” according to the UN refugee agency
- News
Quake-hit Myanmar’s junta chief to head to Bangkok summit
Min Aung Hlaing’s attendance is something of a diplomatic coup for Myanmar’s isolated regime, as the summit breaks with a regional policy of not inviting junta leaders to major events
- Regional
At least 20 missing after boat mishap on Myanmar-Laos border
The incident happened near the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos, a suspected hub for cyber scam centres, drug smuggling, and other criminal activities
- Myanmar
Young men no longer allowed to leave southern Myanmar town to enter Thailand
The new border restrictions in Kawthaung are the latest move by the regime aimed at preventing conscription-age men from leaving the country
- News
Laos arrests nearly 800 people over cyber scam network
Authorities raided the sprawling Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone—similar to complexes used for the same kind of criminal operations in Myanmar—in Bokeo Province, which borders on Myanmar’s Shan State