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Kanchanaburi border patrol soldiers on Sunday arrested 33 undocumented Myanmar nationals while allegedly trying to enter Thailand via a natural channel, unit commander Colonel Chaloemphol Sangtong said.

The Pha Muang Task Force is strictly patrolling the Thai-Myanmar border after Tachileik entertainment venues located across the border from Mae Sai district in Chiang Rai province reopened.

About 250 Thais fled the border area in Mae Hong Son province on Tuesday after the Myanmar military launched airstrikes against ethnic forces, the Thai Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

KLUANG - The leaders of Malaysia and Singapore will discuss, among other things, the reopening of the border when they meet in Singapore on May 4, said Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico - The message popped up on Pastor Juan Fierro's phone one recent afternoon. U.S. border agents had expelled another group of Central American families to this Mexican city. Could someone take them in?

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the reopening of three border checkpoints linking Thailand to Laos, deputy government spokeswoman Ratchada Thanadirek said.

WASHINGTON - U.S. border officials are preparing to open another tent facility in South Texas to cope with soaring numbers of migrant families and children crossing into the United States in recent weeks, according to three Homeland Security officials involved in the planning.

Immigration police chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingduang went to Kanchanaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan and Phetchaburi on Friday to oversee the operation of blocking borders, so nobody can sneak into the country.

Soldiers from the Fifth Infantry Regiment under the Fourth Army Area were monitoring the border in Songkhla's Sadao district to prevent smuggling of migrant workers from Malaysia on Wednesday.

The new normal generally has people wearing face masks to protect themselves, maintaining social distancing, getting their temperature checked or washing their hands diligently with alcoholic sanitiser.

A group of people suspected of attempting to rob motorcycles in Tak province escaped on Friday before soldiers could apprehend them.

Six Laotians were detained in Ubon Ratchathani province on Saturday when they were waiting for a Thai man to take them to Bangkok.