Can someone help me to verify on this pls?

[Y]

FOREIGNERS travelling overland from Thailand will be allowed to enter Myanmar at three border crossings without having to return through the same checkpoint, the Information Ministry has announced.

The crossings will be allowed through the checkpoints at Tachilek, Myawaddy and Kawthaung, the ministry said. (I'D LIKE TO KNOW IT IS CORRECT OR MORE CHECKPOINTS?????)

Officials said the change was expected to take effect by the end of the

year, but did not elaborate.
Travel industry sources welcomed the move, saying that giving foreigners the option of being able to enter and leave the country through different border crossings was expected to encourage more visitors to use land checkpoints.

About 80 percent of Myanmar is open to tourism, but there are still some areas which remain off limits to foreign travellers. 

THANKS,

YAMIN HTIN AUNG

[koko lwin]

To:    : YAMIN HTIN AUNG

I'd like to share some I collected so far.

1) The notification No.77/2003 by Ministry of Home affairs    
               http://myanmartourism.org/latestnews/?page_id=2107

 

2) A news from eleven Myanmar media on 27 Aug 2013

Thai-Myanmar border crossings to become official border gates

Published on Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:06 by Eleven Myanmar Media

Thai-Myanmar border gates will be designated as official international border gates as of August 28 this year, according to Myanmar’s Ministry of Immigration and Population.
This will allow Thai citizens and foreign tourists with valid passports to enter Myanmar by land and depart from other official gateways including Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay.
A bilateral agreement between the two countries will create official gates at Tarchileik-Mae Sai, Myawady-Mae Sot, Kawthaung-Ranong and Htee Khee-Sunaron.
No official changes have yet been made concerning length of stay, renewal of visa, and visa fees. And visa-on-arrival will still not be available at the border gates due to the current security situation, officials said.
Visitors can visit anywhere in the country except restricted areas released in this January by Ministry of Home Affairs. The list of the restricted areas can be acquired at any of the border gates. 

3) My Query to MOHT

----- Original Message -----

To: mtt.mh...@gmail.com ; moht...@gmail.com

Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:23 PM

Subject: Border entry and Restriction

Enquiry, Complaints, Lost and Found Dept
Ministry of Hotels and Tourism

Subj:        :Border entry and Restriction ( Foreign Tourist / Traveller)

Ref :         :Enter from Myawaddy – Restriction for outside of Kawkareik ( Foreign Tourist / Traveller)

1)      Notification no. 77/2013 dated 15 Jan 2013 from Ministry of Home affair set out travel restricted and permitted – In this notification,  travelling outside Kawkareik Tsp( Karen state), need to have prior permission.

2)      A recent news for international border entries are going to be extended Myawaddy- Mae Sot / Tachileik-Mae Sai / Kawthaung- Ranong  and Htee Khee-Sunaron.

3)      For a traveler entering Myawaddy to Hpa-an must go through Kawkareik township. There is only land access by public or private transport.

Able to use for “to and fro” Myawaddy gate without declining existing law and policy, kindly convince us for above query.

 Respect and regards

Ko Ko Lwin

Tour Operator & Product organizer

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4) Reply from  Enquiry, Complaints, Lost and Found Dept of MOHT

----- Original Message -----

From: "MOHT Tourism" <moht...@gmail.com>

Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:15 AM

Subject: Re: Border entry and Restriction

 

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လိႈင္းဘြဲ႕ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊သံေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕နယ္မ်ားအတြက္ ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚခြင့္ျပဳ၊
ၿမိဳ႕ျပင္ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ယူရန္လို႕ ပါထားၿပီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
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ၿမိဳ႕ျပင္(ရြာေတြ)ဘက္သြားရင္ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ေတာင္းခံရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
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ေမးျမန္းမႈအတြက္ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ား။
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[Y]

Thank you so much U KO KO LWIN.

Regards,

Yamin H Aung

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[Thiha Aung]

Dear Ma Yamin
That information must be true.
Now I am on tour with German Group.
They arrive by flight to Yangon.
And they will leave for Thailand by crossing Tachileak on 1st Oct.
Just information for you.
Thiha

On 9/21/13, Y <nick...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> FOREIGNERS travelling overland from Thailand will be allowed to enter
> Myanmar at three border crossings without having to return through the same
> checkpoint, the Information Ministry has announced.
>
> The crossings will be allowed through the checkpoints at Tachilek, Myawaddy

> and Kawthaung, the ministry said. *(I'D LIKE TO KNOW IT IS CORRECT OR MORE
> CHECKPOINTS?????)*

>
> Officials said the change was expected to take effect by the end of the
>
> year, but did not elaborate.
> Travel industry sources welcomed the move, saying that giving foreigners
> the option of being able to enter and leave the country through different
> border crossings was expected to encourage more visitors to use land
> checkpoints.
>
> About 80 percent of Myanmar is open to tourism, but there are still some
> areas which remain off limits to foreign travellers.
>
> THANKS,
>
> YAMIN HTIN AUNG
>

[Aye Min Oo]

We met the responsible person from immigration at Myawaddy who confirmed that entry and exit can be different.

[Y]

Note it and thks.

y

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[koko lwin]

Regarding Yamin Htin Aung's Post-  info of Ko Aye Min Oo is appreciated.

Total 7 int'l ports are being designated ( 3  air access- Yangon, Mandalay , Mawlamyaing and 4 land border crossing - Tachileik- Mae Sai / Myawaddy- Mae Sot / Kaw Thaung-Ranong and Htee Khee - Sunaron up to date.

Same time notification 77/2003 by home affair is being practised, therefore who involved with foreigners need to have clearly on their rationales.

a few account-

I had asked to MOHT  for entering Myawaddy - through Kawkareik up to Hpa-an  as outside of Kawkareik is restricted( need prior permission). { the correspondent mail of me to MOHT is enclosed in this post that will tell clearly }

Relatively - my curiosity for land access Tachileik - Kyaing Tong-Taungyi

Tachileik-Kyaing Tong- Taungyi is part of AH2 - 281 miles 4 furlong of total 500 miles

( Tachileik- Kyaing Tong 102 miles / Kyaing Tong- Namsan 208 mi/ 4 fur / Namsan- Taungyi  73 miles)

It is already known Tachileik to Kyaing Tong land route can be used by foreigners by private or public access.

I'm not sure Kyaing Tong to Taungyi land access can be used by foreigner as the area "Takaw" east of Salween is highly watched out. ( other way there is  air access kyaing Tong to Heho)

Anyway after legal opportunity entering land borders will have many different options comming in and out of Myanmar by foreigners.

As far as I know, depend on progress. more land border entries may become int'l port.

I would like to have a post " Concordance on notification 77/2003 with land border entry "

Let me request Ko Aye Min Oo @ Sonny Aye Min Oo as Dean. Sure be volunteer for your mates in industry. 

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U Ko Lwin

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