Assistant Minister for Public Security Liu Zhongyi has been given the assignment of combating scam operations run by Chinese ...

The group had been working at a scam center in Kyauk Khet Village in Karen State, according to the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), which controls the area.

Myanmar’s scam operations are expanding south along Thailand’s border, authorities have told VOA in recent days, and will continue operating as long as their access to SIM cards, Starlink satellites, ...

Such ‘scam compounds’ are staffed with foreigners lured outside their home countries with fake job offers, as Scroll found in ...

More than 250 people rescued from online scam ... Myanmar and Thailand have made a show of raiding the centers before releasing and repatriating the foreigners inside. Thai officials said the Kyauk ...

Thailand has cut electricity to Myanmar border towns harbouring scam centres tied to human trafficking and online fraud, ...

Last week, Thai authorities initiated power cuts to three Myanmar border cities in a crackdown on online scam centers after Chinese ... trafficked across the Moei River into compounds like ...

On Wednesday, a large group of trafficking victims who were sent back from Myanmar’s Myawaddy area were seen crossing the Moei River to Thailand ... the impact of scam centers on the vital ...

drugs and call centers,” he said. One of those locations was in the town of Myawaddy, on the banks of a river that divides Thailand from Myanmar, and close to some of the largest scam compounds ...