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Thai military personnel keep watch from atop armoured vehicles along the Moei river on the Thai side, next to the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, in Thailand's Mae Sot district,Tak. Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has ordered Thai armed forces to tighten the security at the Thai-Myanmar border following clashes between Myanmar military and ethnic Karen rebels that forced Myanmar residents in the area to escape the battle to Thailand, while Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree expressed his concern and hope to seek an ASEAN consensus on the ongoing Myanmar armed conflicts