The garish lights that once illuminated the night sky over the Burmese border town have not been seen for months – not since ...

The third defining feature is a riverside setting. Boat landings adjoin the complexes, facilitating movement to and from ...

The roots of these scam centers trace back to the 1990s, coinciding with the decline of traditional casinos and the rise of online gambling in the Golden Triangle, where Myanmar, Thailand and Laos ...

Indonesia nationals who had worked at scam centers in eastern Myanmar walk upon arrival from Thailand, at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.

MAE SOT, Thailand — A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those helping them ...

People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the centers ...

Facing pressure from China, Thailand and Myanmar’s governments launched a massive operation in February in which they released thousands of trafficked people from scam compounds, working with ...

Myanmar scam centre survivors recall torture and coercion By Reuters February 19, 20255:39 AM PSTUpdated February 19, 2025 ...

Despite a weeks-long multinational crackdown, scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border are still operating with up to 100,000 people working there, the top police general leading Thailand's ...