By Bangkok Post, Thailand Dec. 21--Mae Sot Clean Energy, a joint venture between Padaeng Industry Plc, Thai Oil Plc and Petrogreen Co, has begun a project to build a two-billion-baht ethanol manufacturing plant in Mae Sot district, Tak province.

By Bangkok Post, Thailand Dec. 6--The Department of Mineral Fuels of the Energy Ministry is planning to resume consideration of petroleum exploration in the Shell oil field located in Mae Sot, Tak province.

By MARGIE MASON MAE SOT, Thailand - They travel for days though checkpoints, across dangerous roads and past Myanmar's bribe-hungry soldiers to make it to the Thai border. They're not refugees fleeing the junta - they simply want to see a doctor.

They travel for days though checkpoints, across dangerous roads and past Myanmar's bribe-hungry soldiers to make it to the Thai border. They're not refugees fleeing the junta - they simply want to see a doctor.

Text of report in English by Taiwanese newspaper Taipei Times website on 14 October [Article by Jenny W.