"Myawaddy"

A car bomb planted at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge near the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border checkpoint exploded late on Saturday night damaging a four-storey building and shops nearby.

The second Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge linking Thailand’s Mae Sot district and Myanmar’s border city of Myawaddy on the Thai-Myanmar border has been officially opened to facilitate cross-border transport of goods and people.

Tak’s Mae Sot district chief yesterday urged Thai farmers not to light agricultural fires while working in Myawaddy town in Myanmar.

Myanmar's Ministry of Trade and Commerce have reported that legal trade within the border has doubled within the past four fiscal years.

Myanmar migrant workers returning to Thailand after celebrating Thingyan (Myanmar New Year) are facing problem buying bus tickets in Mae Sot.