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	Nowhere to Run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The total beneficiary population in the Mae Tao Clinic catchment area is estimated to be 200,000, with approximately 100,000 illegal migrants in Thailand and 100,000 internally displaced in Burma.
		The Mae Sot Clinic staff are on good terms with the Thai authorities and immigration officials in the Mae Sot area who occasionally consult Dr. Cynthia Maung, director of the Clinic about issues related to the ethnic Burmese along the border.
		The Mae Tao Clinic reports a significant decrease in the percentage of infants born with low birthweight, from 10.6% in 1997 to 5% in 1999.
	english.dvb.no /e_docs/187nowhere_to_run.htm (7041 words)

	Locations - Burma Volunteer Program
		Mae Sot, the home of the Burma Volunteer Program (BVP) is a small Thai trading town on the western border with Burma.
		Mae Sot is the closest point in Thailand to the Burmese capital Rangoon and has become a major gateway to Burma.
		Mae Hong Song is tucked away among the mountains bordering Burma and supports a large hill-tribe population.
	www.geocities.com /maesotbvp/locations.html (388 words)

	The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lt-Gen Nawin traveled to Mae Sot to look into allegations that local officials were involved in the killings.
		The commissioner of Region Six, which includes Mae Sot, said that local officials are in a hurry to wrap up this case.
		Mae Sot police superintendent Pol-Col Songkran Sangkakorn reported that no arrests have been made in connection with the killings but a pick-up truck owned by a village headman was seized as evidence.
	www.irrawaddy.org /aviewer.asp?a=1285&z=23 (404 words)

	Destination Mae Sot -- background information and recommended tours -- ActiveThailand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mae Sot is located on the western border of Thailand with Myanmar, stretching to reach the Sangklaburi province.
		It is 165 km south of Mae Sot and is reached by a scenic road which twists and turns through forests, hills and valleys.
		River rafting along the Mae Klong river is nothing less than spectacular with beautiful scenery, waterfalls (including Thee Lor Su, the largest in Thailand), dramatic cliff faces and caves going deepl into the limestone mountains.
	www.activethailand.com /maesot (672 words)

	Northwestern Thailand -- ThingsAsian Article
		It is nowadays located on an Asian Highway from Myanmar at Mae Sot (Tak province) in the west to Chong Mek, (Laos) in the east and along with nearby Pitsanulok, still dominates as a center of commerce, transportation and communication.
		Mae Sot now has good air connections with both Bangkok and Changmai and it is becoming a weekend retreat for the white water rafting adventurers as well as those in search of some clean forest air along the reaches of Mae Sot Hill.
		Overland bus routes between Tak/Mae Sot and Sukhothai are frequent and quite acceptable and a cheap way to travel from A to B. Outside of Mae Sot and Sukhothai (noticeably where the airports are), hotels only tend to reach 3 star standards, but for one night stopovers and short stays that is sufficient.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1586.html (1284 words)

	Royal Orchid Holidays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mae Sot will one day from part of Asia's great Route 1, which will take overland travellers all the way from Istanbul to Singapore.
		Mae Sot is not a "bustling little town" as I read in one guidebook.
		You will hear, of course, that Mae Sot is the centre of the fl-market trade between Myanmar and Thailand, which may be true, but for the casual visitor it's not obvious and certainly not worth investigating.
	www.thaiairways.com /Royal_Orchid_Holidays/Roh_travel_feature/rohweekly-113tharticle-1.htm (1226 words)

	Asia Times -
		MAE SOT, Thailand - After two years of passively accepting grueling orders, a woman named Khin Wa, a migrant from neighboring Myanmar, finally found the courage to defy her boss.
		In contrast to the Mae Sot factories, where the Thai minimum wage law guaranteeing $3.25 a day is often violated and workers are frequently paid half that amount, Levi Strauss was paying its North American workers as much as $11 per hour.
		The flow of migrant workers to Mae Sot gained pace in the mid-1990s, when this town, known as a trading outpost between Thailand and Myanmar, was converted into a production center for garment factories.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EJ03Ae01.html (1033 words)

	Tak Travel Information
		Doi Mae Ramoeng is some 130 kilometres north of Mae Sot on the Mae Sot-Mae Sariang Highway.
		Amphoe Umphang is 164 kilometres of Mae Sot on Highway 1090.
		Mae Sot is a good place to purchase Burmese products, including silverware, lacquerware, rubies and other gem stones.
	asiatravel.com /takinfo.html (827 words)

	Fargo Travel, Thailand and Worldwide Hotels Reservations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mae Sot This riverside settlement on the Moei River, facing Myanmar on the opposite bank, and some 86 kilometres from Tak city, is well know for its shopping opportunities, especially for Burmese goods such as cloth lengths, gemstones and decorative items.
		It is necessary to ford the Mae Usu stream in front of the cave to gain access.This may not be possible during the annual Rains Season (July through October).
		Mae Sot is a good place to purchase Burmese products, including silverware, lacquerware, rubies and other gemstones.
	www.fargotravel.com /thailand/north/tak.html (1934 words)

	Karen Refugee Camp Mae Ra~ Volunteer Work on the Thai/Myanmar Border
		Like all border towns, Mae Sot is home to every ethnicity in the area; Thai, Burmese, Karen, other hilltribe groups like the Hmong or Lahu, and even refugees who’ve hitched a ride from the camp to the city for something to do.
		Mae Sot is also home to many Volunteer organizations working at the refugee camps.
		If you are in Mae Sot, the best place to get information about volunteer organizations in town or at the camps is at the KCB Snack Shop, run by the very amiable Samsok, the nicest man you ever met.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/38/Myanmar_Refugees.html (2241 words)

	Work, Rights, and Discrimination against Burmese Workers in Thailand
		Mae Sot is situated on the Thai side of the Thai-Burma border.
		Labour leaders in Mae Sot report that if these organisations discover their activities, they are often fllisted, and find it difficult to work there again.
		The Tak province FTI is highly influential in Mae Sot in terms of co-ordinating employers’ efforts to ‘manage’ workers, by keeping wages low, and fllisting strike leaders; NGOs report that their ability to work is constrained by FTI activities.
	www.amrc.org.hk /5306.htm (3856 words)

	globalinfo.org - Aug 27, THAILAND (#31939)
		A similar dispute is playing out in another garment factory in Mae Sot, the Thai-owned Nasawat Apparel Co that has refused to comply with an order by labour protection officials to compensate dismissed employees.
		The travails of Burmese labourers in Mae Sot have come to symbolise the painful climate in which migrant workers toil in jobs that are dirty, dangerous and back-breaking across Thailand.
		Mae Sot alone has close to 100,000 Burmese migrants employed in the many garment factories and farms in the vicinity.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=31939 (968 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Officials in the western town of Mae Sot say the crackdown will last a month, and media reports say policemen are still arresting migrant workers there daily.
		About two-thirds of Mae Sot district's population is estimated to be Burmese.
		One returnee to Mae Sot said returning workers were sent on forced labour on construction sites elsewhere in Burma.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=22969 (1045 words)

	The Irrawaddy On-line Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mae Sot Hospital officials told Yan Minn that her body had been in the mortuary for about four days when he viewed the corpse on Friday.
		Mae Sot Police Superintendent Pol Col Somjit Thongthang said the body was found in the countryside just outside Mae Sot town by a police patrol at about midnight on February 22.
		The Mae Sot gem market turns over about five billion baht worth of Burmese jade, rubies and sapphires a year, according to Thai gem merchants.
	www.irrawaddy.org /news/2004/feb31.html (285 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		Day 1-4: Mae Sot: Mae Sot is a true frontier area, replete with smuggling, refugee camps, and occasional border skirmishes between Myanmar’s government troops and the Karen or Kayah insurgents.
		Among the sights in Mae Sot are the main market behind the Siam Hotel and the border market on the Moei River.
		Since Mae Sot is in a major refugee area, we spent a lot of time visiting some of the refugee camps as well as Dr. Cynthia’s Mae Tao Clinic.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=27&tid=34594410&numresponses=7&start=0&screen_name=divediva (2263 words)

	Burmese Mahachaing factory workers sent back to Mae Sot
		The workers came to Mahachaing from Burma via Mae Sot to work at the TRS prawn processing factory and had a contract with their employer for daily wages of 175 Baht.
		But their employer sent them back to Mae Sot when they asked to be paid according to their contract.
		Many migrant workers are sent back to Mae Sot after disagreements with their employers.
	www.mizzima.com /mizzima/archives/news-in-2005/News-in-Oct/03-Oct-05-03.htm (412 words)

	EWEC - East West Economic Corridor - visit-mekong.com
		Wattanaram (Phattanaram) - is a Burmese temple at Ban Mae Tao, 3 kms west of Mae Sot on the road to the border.
		Wat Phra That Dol Din Klu - is a forest temple 11 kms northwest of the Mae Sot town on a 300-m hill overlooking the Moei River and Myanmar.
		Mae Ping Lake Cruises - are popular cruises originated from the Bhumibol Dam to Chiang Mai’s Doi Tao self-help settlement edging the dam reservoir, a total distance of 140 kms.
	www.visit-mekong.com /ewec/thailand/th_attractions.htm (1073 words)

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		The officers believed that a delegation of the Karen National Union (KNU), which is in Moulmein for the second round of ceasefire talks with the Burmese junta, had also requested Rangoon to persuade the DKBA to stop its violent harassment and kidnapping of Karen refugees in Thailand.
		Thai officers said they detected that DKBA forces had on Monday withdrawn from the Kawmoora camp, which is opposite Baan Wang Pa in Mae Sot, and returned to their headquarters at Myainyingoo temple.
		Mae Hong Son’s trade volume dropped from 10.76 billion in 1994 to 9.21 billion baht in 1995 after closure of the checkpoints.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/political-science/freeburma/bnn/1996/bnn0296n348.txt (946 words)

	[No title]
		From here, it is but a short 1–2 day walk to Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province.
		Mae Sot has grown a great deal over the past two decades, fuelled mainly by the Burmese thirst for manufactured goods, and a similar Thai hunger for raw materials.
		This is not to say that Burmese gems are not found in Mae Sot, for they are.
	www.ruby-sapphire.com /bordertowns.htm (2048 words)

	Tak Thailand Attractions - hotels information and travel guide
		With an average temperature of 4 degrees celsius during the cool season and 25 degrees celsius in the summer, the Research Station is considered a perfect place for cold climate crops such as tea, coffee, flowers and fruits.
		It is not advised to visit the cave during the rainy season as the only entrance for visitors is through Mae Usa stream at the entrance of the cave.
		The cave itself is 3 kilometers deep with a large chamber inside the cave with a walkway connecting to Ban Mae Klong Mai.
	www.thailand-guide.org /thailand/tak/attractions.htm (3220 words)

	Mae Sot Hotels - Secure Reservations and Discount Rates on Mae Sot Hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mae Sot Hotels - Secure Reservations and Discount Rates on Mae Sot Hotels
		Central Mae Sot Hill Hotel, in Tak Province, is nestled in the cool northern mountains along the Thai-Myanmar border.
		Five hundred kilometers from Bangkok and easily accessible by air or by land, the...
	www.precisionreservations.com /ph-aspx-city_id.15943-db-hoteldatabase/PHCOther.htm (129 words)

	Headless Chicken Travels
		I hope to leave Mae Sot tomorrow but Lua is suggesting we cross the friendship bridge to Myanmar to get our visas renewed.
		She will be cancelling her trip to Lopburi to join me in Mae Sot.
		We'll probably spend a night in Mae Sot before coming back to Sukhothai as I think I may not be going to Mae Sariang anymore but instead go to Lamphun from here.
	headlesschickentravels.blogspot.com (2966 words)

	THAILAND: Police officer attempts to rape migrant worker
		Daw Ma Naw Mar went to Mae Sot District Hospital to have her injuries treated after being hit by the policeman, and a medical record exists of her visit.
		They were taken by force to one of their houses, situated in the Islamic quarter of Mae Sot, near the Bunkum crossroads.
		Daw Ma Naw Mar is understood to have gone to Mae Sot District Hospital to have her injuries treated, and a medical record exists of her visit.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/1318?print=yes (1615 words)

	InfoHub - Repérages Thailand: "Elephant backs and bamboo rafts in Umphang" (Mae Sot) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The starting point of this journey was Mae Sot a city situated at the Burmese border in the north west of the country.
		Early in the morning, we were ready for a three-day trek in the national park that started with the descent of the river on rafts made of bamboo.
		Umphang National park is located at the burmese border, in the south of Mae Sot, and is probably one of the best places in Thailand for a trekking...
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=2893 (943 words)

	Michael Boyd Goes Gem Buying in Thailand - LapidaryJournal.com photo extra
		The towns of Mae Sot and Mae Sai are dominant over the other border towns in the gem trade, with Mae Sot being the most important.
		Mae Sot is said to have a large Thai-Burmese gem fair every April, though I was unable to find out the exact dates.
		In the area, there are three main markets for gems: Central Mae Sot, a border market six kilometers west at the Thai-Myanmar border, and the Myanmar town of Myawadi where foreigners are allowed to purchase one-day permits to cross the border.
	www.lapidaryjournal.com /feature/nov03str.cfm (1566 words)

	Tak and Mae Sot : Planning a Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Arranging a bus from Mae Sot for onward travel is confusing because there are different stations for all points of the compass.
		From the bus terminals in either Tak or Mae Sot motorcycle taxis, samlor, and songtao wait to take you to your hotel for about 30B to 40B (75¢-$1).
		In Mae Sot, Siam Commercial Bank has a branch just opposite the entrance to First Hotel on Sawanwithy and Thai Military Bank (with ATM service) is on the central thoroughfare, Prasawithee Rd. A post office is on Intharakiri Road opposite DK Hotel just east of the police station.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=3015&catID=3015010002 (438 words)

	Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Thai Policy toward Burmese Refugees: III. Expulsion to Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to NGOs in Mae Sot, Burmese who have been able to return to Thailand after being deported report that officials at the SPDC holding center photograph all returned migrants and tell them if they pass through the center three times, they will be imprisoned.
		UNHCR staff in Bangkok attempt to alert UNHCR protection officers in Mae Sot, in cases where a recognized refugee or asylum seeker registered with UNHCR is among a particular group of people to be expelled, either officially or unofficially.
		NGO workers in Mae Sot say that some industries, such as restaurants and hotels, appear to have been largely unaffected by the cabinet resolution, often because the business owners are well connected and can pay off the local authorities.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2004/thailand0204/3.htm (3306 words)

	Repérages Thailand - Programme: Eco-adventure trek in Umphang
		Welcome to Mae Sot by our local guide, then transfer by local vehicle to Umphang by the road number 1090 that used to be called "the road of the death" because of the guerrilla warfare that prevented all circulation in the past.
		At the arrival in Umphang, Thai lunch at the lodge, then afternoon free at leisure to discover the village populated of Karen with their elephants, which are used again for the farm work.
		Lunch in Umphang, then travel to Mae Sot with a stop in the last Karen village, before the transfer to Mae Sot airport for the return flight to Bangkok, or Chiang Mai.
	www.travel.reperages-thailand.com /programmes/prog03_en.html (937 words)

	Mae Sot - Thailand
		With a liveliness belying its size, this frontier town on the Burmese border is a major transit point for the underground gem and timber trade.
		Close to Myanmar, Mae Sot is an enticing maverick frontier town where fl market timber, gems and everything else are major sources of income.
		A bridge across the Moei River links Mae Sot to Myawaddi in Myanmar, although the Burmese military opens and closes it whimsically.
	www.circleofasia.com /Mae-Sot-Thailand.htm (279 words)

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