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	Following a tip-off, police at the Ban Pu Namron border checkpoint tried to search the suspicious SUV at 5am but it failed to stop, so they gave chase until the driver pulled over and ran for it.&nbsp;</div>
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	Police found nine women and 17 men &ndash; all undocumented &ndash; crammed into the vehicle designed to carry up to 10 passengers.&nbsp;</div>

Smuggling of 26 Myanmar immigrants intercepted

Over 1,000 Thai protesters accuse World Bank and IMF of favouring the rich on October 15

<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%">Nongluck is a senior economic journalist covering the macroeconomics, real estate, and corporate investment strategies driving growth across Thailand and Southeast Asia</span></span><span lang="TH" style="font-size:18.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Angsana New&quot;,serif">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

Smuggling of 26 Myanmar immigrants intercepted

Highway Police early Wednesday morning rounded up 26 Myanmar workers packed into an SUV in Kanchanaburi's Phanom Tuan district and arrested the Thai driver.

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