MAE SOT, Thailand -- On a recent morning, one side of the bridge connecting Mae Sot, a western Thai border town, with Myawaddy in Myanmar was jammed with traffic. Myanmar residents -- cut off from electricity, fuel and telecoms by their neighbor for the past month -- were queueing to buy fuel in Thailand.
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Vehicles ride across the Thai-Myanmar border amid a mounting crackdown on scam centers operating along a porous border, in Mae Sot District, Tak province, Thailand on Feb. 21. © Reuters
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