Thread: Thailand issues travel warning for Burma

FM issues travel warning on Burma

The Foreign Ministry has issued a travel warning for Thai nationals planning to visit Burma and prepared an contingency plan in case of violence erupted in the country where a nine-day demonstration was met with police crackdown.


Ministry's spokesman Tharit Charungvat said Wednesday, the ministry urged Thai nationals planning to visit Burma to take extreme caution.

Tharit said there are about 40 Thai citizens in Mandalay and 100 in Rangoon, the commercial capital of Burma.

Moreover, officials and transport vehicles are on the standby to carry out the evacuation if and when the plan is announced.

Meeting points for possible evacuation have been designated, the spokesman said.

The ministry, including other relevant government agencies, have been keeping a close watch on the development in Burma where communication has been extremely difficult.

In spite of the Burmese government's crackdown on Buddhist monks and laymen and the ban on gathering, government offices and business continue their operations, he said.

The Nation