Tachileik: History
Tachileik was a border crossing probably used in the opium trade from the Golden Triangle and was the town that the drug lord Khun Sa used to live in.
On 24 March 2011, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region very close to Tachileik. It caused some damage as far away as Chiang Mai.
On 24 March 2012 a bomb wounded 2 people at the Regina Hotel golf course in Tachileik, followed by a second bomb that exploded an hour later.