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TAK, Jan 10
Cross-border trade between Thailand’s Mae Sot and Myanmar’s Myawaddy has revived significantly following Myanmar's relaxation of border control measures, the top Mae Sot official said Monday.
District Chief Kittisak Tomornsak said trade at the second largest cross-border trading port along the Moei River in Mae Sot began returning to normal after the lifting of the freeze in effect since the neighbouring country shut the border crossing at the bridge across the Moei River and some 20 cross-border trading ports along the river last August.
Myanmar closed its border, the Thai official said, to improve its cross-border trade measures and to set up a border protection force. The measures currently are nearly complete so the
Myanmar authorities have relaxed the border measures, helping revive trade along the border of the two countries.
Mr Kittisak said that if there are no further incidents or tensions, it is expected that Myanmar will reopen the Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in January.
Meanwhile, Pol Lt Col Rinnawat Puwattnatikan, commander of the 346th Border Patrol Police, urged local border patrol police to tighten security in order to maintain order and prevent the smuggling of illegal goods.
District Chief Kittisak Tomornsak said trade at the second largest cross-border trading port along the Moei River in Mae Sot began returning to normal after the lifting of the freeze in effect since the neighbouring country shut the border crossing at the bridge across the Moei River and some 20 cross-border trading ports along the river last August.
Myanmar closed its border, the Thai official said, to improve its cross-border trade measures and to set up a border protection force. The measures currently are nearly complete so the
Myanmar authorities have relaxed the border measures, helping revive trade along the border of the two countries.
Mr Kittisak said that if there are no further incidents or tensions, it is expected that Myanmar will reopen the Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in January.
Meanwhile, Pol Lt Col Rinnawat Puwattnatikan, commander of the 346th Border Patrol Police, urged local border patrol police to tighten security in order to maintain order and prevent the smuggling of illegal goods.
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