Scams, casinos and high-rises: The BBC visits a bizarre city in a war zone
Just trees, a few roughly-built cement buildings, and a long-running civil war which has left this area of Myanmar one of the poorest places on earth. But today, on this spot along the border with ...
61 people, including 39 Chinese and 13 Indians, rescued from scam centers in Myawaddy, Myanmar: Thai media
Some 61 people lured by call-center scammers to work in Myanmar were rescued and sent back to Thailand on Thursday. The group ...
Xi Jinping praises Thailand’s crackdown on Myanmar scam hubs
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn met with Xi in Beijing after the kingdom cut power and internet to scam hubs around its ...
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Thailand to shut off electricity to Myanmar’s scam hubs
Thailand has cut electricity to Myanmar border towns harbouring scam centres tied to human trafficking and online fraud, ...
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China thanks Thailand for scam crackdown as militia frees foreigners
Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked Thailand’s visiting prime minister on Thursday for a crackdown on scam centers in ...
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Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs
That a bank manager, of all people, could be fooled on a scale sufficient to bring down a bank is a sign of how sophisticated ...
China's Xi and Thailand's leader vow to crack down on scam networks that plague Southeast Asia
China's leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra vowed to crack down on the scam networks ...
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Scam park victim returns to Hong Kong after Thai rescue
A woman has returned to Hong Kong after being rescued from a Myanmar scam park by Thai authorities as family members ...