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    Tagged: Kawthaung

    Lead Story News Tenasserim

    Burma, Thailand seek tourism cooperation along Andaman coast

    Thai provinces on the Andaman coast are keen to expand maritime tourism to Burma as part of regional efforts to draw more tourists to the two countries.

    Drugs Lead Story News Tenasserim

    Kawthaung police seize kratom drug haul from longboat

    Kawthaung’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force say they found 299 bags of kratom leaves, with a street value placed at 4.119m kyat.

    Lead Story News Travel & Tourism

    Overland borders to Burma open to e-visa travellers

    News of the new routes is sure to well received by intrepid travellers, who no longer have to queue up at a Burmese embassy for consecutive days to get a stamp to enter the country.

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    VIDEO: Sea gypsies in troubled waters video

    Lead Story News Travel & Tourism Video

    VIDEO: Sea gypsies in troubled waters

    Join the Roadshow team as they meet the Moken— some still sailing now-troubled waters, others making a new life as fish out of water on both sides of Burma’s border with Thailand.

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    Myeik residents protest coal plant plans

    The Andaman coastal town of Myeik is home to farmers, fishermen and shrimp paste workers; they say a 50-MW coal power plant will adversely affect their livelihoods and their health.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Thai smugglers unlikely to be given pardons in Burma

    The two remaining Thai detainees in the Kawthaung smuggling and trespassing case are hopeful of a presidential pardon, but Burmese authorities are showing no signs of leniency.

    Lead Story News Society

    Families of stranded Kawthaung prisoners raise complaint with president

    Some 120 inmates have been stranded for seven days on an island near Moulmein while being transferred from Kawthaung prison following a riot.

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    One killed, 7 injured in Kawthaung prison riot

    One inmate was killed and seven others injured in a prison riot which escalated into an attempted jailbreak in Kawthaung in southern Burma on Friday night.

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    Immigration officials relax restrictions for tourists travelling overland

    Foreigners entering Burma through three major border checkpoints along the Thai border can now travel inland and will not be required to exit the country through the same portal in accordance with a new regulation

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