Loaded pickups queue at the Phu Nam Rom checkpoint in Muang district of Kanchanburi, after the border reopened on Wednesday for two days of trading. (Photo: Piyarat Chongchareon)
KANCHANABURI: Trade between Thailand and Myanmar resumed in Kanchanaburi province on Wednesday after Thai authorities temporarily eased Covid-19 restrictions.
Loaded trucks converged on the Ban Phu Nam Ron checkpoint in Muang district and the Three Pagodas crossing in Sangkhla Buri district, as the province allowed trading for two days.
Consumer goods and construction materials were transferred from Thai vehicles to lorries from Myanmar at the border in the two districts.
Terdsak Kittiwarakul, the secretary-general of the Thai-Myanmar border trade association at Ban Phu Nam Ron, said Myanmar needed consumer goods from Thailand,…
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