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Sun, 11/07/2010 - 20:33
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Myanmar troops step up security on border after Japanese reporter arrested
TAK, Nov 7-- Myanmar soldiers were deployed along Thai-Myanmar border at the Moei River after a Japanese journalist was arrested in Myanmar's Myawaddy for illegally crossing the border from Thailand.
Responding to the detention of the Japanese journalist late Sunday morning, the combined forces of Myanmar military and Border Guard Force personnel have been stationed along the Moei River in the border town of Myawaddy to increase security and monitor the situation while the country's first general election in two decades was proceeding.
Meanwhile, Thai army personnel were deployed at the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Tak's Mae Sot connecting the two countries.
Myanmar's toughening stance followed its police and military detaining a 46-year-old Japanese journalist working for the video and photo Asia Press Front (APF) News Agency, who sneaked into the country.
In addition, the authorities seized his belongings including a pen camera, a satellite-signal cellphone, a cellphone and a notebook.
He has been detained at a Myawaddy Police Station for further investigation and will be charged under immigration law as the junta refused to allow international monitors or foreign journalists into the country for the Sunday election.
After the arrest, Myanmar residents were not allowed to cross border to Thailand and goods transportation to Myanmar along to ports along the Moei River was suspended. (MCOT online news)
Responding to the detention of the Japanese journalist late Sunday morning, the combined forces of Myanmar military and Border Guard Force personnel have been stationed along the Moei River in the border town of Myawaddy to increase security and monitor the situation while the country's first general election in two decades was proceeding.
Meanwhile, Thai army personnel were deployed at the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Tak's Mae Sot connecting the two countries.
Myanmar's toughening stance followed its police and military detaining a 46-year-old Japanese journalist working for the video and photo Asia Press Front (APF) News Agency, who sneaked into the country.
In addition, the authorities seized his belongings including a pen camera, a satellite-signal cellphone, a cellphone and a notebook.
He has been detained at a Myawaddy Police Station for further investigation and will be charged under immigration law as the junta refused to allow international monitors or foreign journalists into the country for the Sunday election.
After the arrest, Myanmar residents were not allowed to cross border to Thailand and goods transportation to Myanmar along to ports along the Moei River was suspended. (MCOT online news)
