Five Chinese nationals were arrested while making an illegal crossing from Myanmar’s Myawaddy city to Thailand’s Tak province on Thursday.
Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear of being arrested and sent back to Myanmar.
Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved – and how Indians became its targets.
The government has not yet decided whether to broadly cut electricity supplies to Myanmar to combat call-centre scammers ...
A 90-day freeze on foreign assistance programs announced by United States President Donald Trump has led to cuts in services to refugees from war-torn Myanmar, including the shutdown of hospital care ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze is reportedly wreaking havoc along the Thai-Myanmar border, where medical ...
The fate of actor Wang Xing prompted outrage in China after he disappeared and had to be saved from a Myanmar scam center.
Groups helping victims of Myanmar’s turmoil are struggling to provide assistance after the United States placed a 90-day ...
China and Thailand have pledged to jointly crack down on dozens of cyber scam gangs in Myanmar and related human trafficking, including setting up at least one coordination centre, according to Thai ...
The Myanmar junta insists online scam operators are foreigners thriving on cross-border infrastructure, and neighboring ...
A freeze on foreign assistance programs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump has led to cuts in services to refugees from ...
Healthcare centres serving tens of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border have been ordered shut after U.S.