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The Thailand-Myanmar border checkpoint at Mae Sot district in the northern Tak province remained closed on Thursday, scuttling an earlier plan for reopening after over two years of closure.

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 Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced on Friday that it will set up special disease prevention measures for travellers entering Thailand via the Nong Khai checkpoint from December 24.

Staff at a Songkhla hotel are preparing the place to welcome Thais who will return from Malaysia via the Sadao checkpoint from Saturday (April 18) onwards.

Thailand and Malaysia have launched the 24-hour border checkpoint between Songkhla’s Sadao district with Malaysia’s Bukit Kayu Hitam.

Thousands of tourists from Malaysia and Singapore crossed the border into Thailand at the Sadao district's border checkpoint in Songkhla on Thursday morning for the Songkran celebration.

Thailand and Malaysia will introduce 24-hour service for lorries at their border checkpoints between Songkhla province and Kedah on April 1, Songkhla deputy governor Ampon Pongsuwan said on Monday. 

More than 30,000 undocumented Myanmar workers have been repatriated via the Mae Sot border checkpoint in Tak since the new labour law came into effect, a senior immigration officer said.