PEA cuts power to two towns in Myanmar

Shwe Kokko, a Myanmar border town across the Moei river opposite Ban Wang Pha in Tak's Mae Ramat district of Thailand, with the lights still on. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)

TAK: The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand has cut off the supply of electricity across the Moei river to two border towns in Myanmar where groups of Chinese businessmen have made huge illegal investments, at the request of the Myanmar government, Thai official sources said.

Both officlal border crossings between Mae Sot and Myanmar remain open to travellers and cargo trucks.