Thailand downplays risk as Myanmar sends troops to key border town

Number of refugees in Thai temporary shelters falls to 600, foreign minister says

FRANCESCA REGALADO, Nikkei staff writer

MAE SOT, Thailand -- Thai cabinet officials insisted the security and refugee situation on their side of the border with Myanmar was under control, even as reports from the ground in Myanmar's southeastern Kayin state suggest a coming surge of regime troops to retake a key border town from ethnic resistance groups.

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