BANGKOK -- When the Sai River breached its banks in early September as Typhoon Yagi swept through the region, traffic stopped along the two bridges connecting the Thai town of Mae Sai and Tachileik, its neighbor in Myanmar, halting cross-border trade that last year was valued at $555 million at that crossing alone.
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A resident uses a wheelbarrow to carry supplies through the flood-hit streets of Mae Sai, northern Thailand, on Sept. 15 after the Sai River overflowed its banks six days earlier, triggered by Typhoon Yagi and monsoon rains. (Photo by Adryel Talamantes)
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