He was one of some 7,000 people released from scam compounds in Myawaddy, a town on Myanmar’s border with Thailand that is ...

Hundreds of thousands of victims remain trapped in scam compounds. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Thailand - backed by China - is pushing to dismantle scam centres in Myanmar's Myawaddy area, part of a network of illicit and highly lucrative operations across Southeast Asia where hundreds of ...

Thailand requires any country repatriating its citizens from Myawaddy to send officials to the Thai-Myanmar border to facilitate the process, which includes disease screening and immigration checks.

"Many people use Thailand as a pathway to sneak themselves into Myawaddy to find work, and this is not just the call centre gangs but also online gambling work and other professions," Thatchai ...

Thailand scrambled two F-16 jets on May 28 after a Myanmar Yak-130 dropped bombs near the border, causing 377 to flee into ...

On a tense Wednesday afternoon, the Royal Thai Air Force acted quickly after detecting a Myanmar Yak-130 military aircraft flying very close to Thailand’s border. F-16 Jets Intercept Myanmar Yak-130 ...

Thailand's opposition People's Party lawmaker Rangsiman Rome had told VOA that the Myawaddy area in Myanmar, opposite the Thai border town of Mae Sot, is the "global capital" of scams. The Indian ...

These operations are centered in Myawaddy, a region on Myanmar's border with Thailand that has become a hotspot for organized internet fraud networks. These scams are not only run by Burmese ...

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In Myanmar's Myawaddy, more than 7,000 foreigners - mostly from China - are waiting to cross from into Thailand, which is coordinating with embassies to to try to streamline their repatriations.