[11] Tamu is a principal town of the Kabaw Valley, on the bank of the Lokchao River, which flows down from Manipur hills (present day Tengnoupal district).

[16] During the First Anglo-Burmese War, the next prince Gambhir Singh reoccupied the Kabaw Valley, but the British returned it to Burma in 1834 as part of the post-war settlement.

[17] In 1829, shortly before the final cession of the Kabaw Valley, Gambhir Singh is recorded to have "barricaded" the Lokchao gorge and established a new village in its vicinity.

Sibong, originally called "Sitpong", is a much older village than Moreh, and listed with a population of 150 people dominated by Anals in the Gazetteer of Manipur.

[22] In 1891, there was a palace rebellion in Manipur, and the British, who were by now in control of the whole of Burma, sent in forces stationed at Tamu to relieve the captives taken by rebels.

[26] The rise of Moreh took place during the World War II, when it was developed into an administrative and supply centre for the Allied Forces and Sibong was set up as a rear headquarters.

With the arrival of Burmese Indians, Moreh acquired a cosmopolitan character with many ethnicities such as Tamils, Malayalees, Punjabis, Bengalis and Nepalese along with the local Meitei, Kuki and Naga populations.

According to scholar Thongkholal Haokip, many of these Kukis had been previously displaced from the Naga-dominated ares of Manipur such as the Ukhrul district.

[41] The conflict itself started when NSCN-IM captured two Kuki student leaders, who were allegedly carrying messages for KNA, and killed one of them.

Major exports include cement, engineering goods, transport equipment, motor cycles, iron and steels, medicine, chemicals and allied products, cotton yarn, etc.

The major items now imported from Myanmar through barter mechanism are betel nuts, turmeric, red kidney beans (Rajma), kuth roots, gram, resin, dry ginger, etc.

136 crores on 18.41 hectares (45.50 acres) land near Gate No.1 within Customs notified area, facilitates speedy movement of export-import consignments under India's Look East Policy.

[55] Moreh is on the Asian Highway 1 (AH1),[56] which is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running 20,557 km (12,774 mi) from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins end-on with European route E80, running all the way to Lisbon, Portugal.

India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway, 1,408 km (875 mi) long section of AH1, connects Imphal-Moreh in India with Mae Sot in Thailand via Mandalay-Kalewa-Yagyi in Myanmar.

[61] India plans to upgrade route from Zokhawthar in Mizoram to Tedim in Chin State of Myanmar as an additional connect to the IMT trilateral highway.

[62] Trans-Asian Railway's (TAR) Southern Corridor (also called ITI-DKD-Y), once completed, will connect Yunnan in China and Thailand with Europe via India and Turkey.

TAR will enable containers from Singapore, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Korea to travel over land by train to Europe.

Under the Look East policy of India, the line will be extended from Moreh to the existing railhead of Myanmar rail network at Kalay (also called Kale and Kalemyo) to form part of the ambitious Trans-Asian Railway.

[4] Indian plans to extend Imphal rail link to Moreh and eventually to the Myanmar railway system, allowing onward connectivity to Thailand and China.

[69][8] In January 2018, India initiated a preliminary survey to determine the feasibility of establishing a rail link parallel to the India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway.