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

"I swear to God I need help," said the man quietly on the other end of the line. The Ethiopian, who calls himself Mike, said he is being held with 450 others in a building inside Myanmar, along ...

Traditional principles are clashing with urgent need for coordinated response to the threat of transnational crime, say ...

Myanmar’s raging civil war has complicated efforts to tackle the scam compounds, as most are in areas outside the ruling junta’s control.

Hundreds of Chinese nationals freed from Myanmar online scam centres flew home through Thailand on Thursday, as the kingdom said it aimed to repatriate 1,500 such workers a week.

Hundreds of foreign nationals pulled out of scam compounds in Myanmar during a crackdown on centres run by criminal gangs have little food, scant healthcare and filthy toilets in the remote ...

The agency told the BBC it acted off a tip-off about the network, which was operating in the city of Faisalabad.

In February, Myanmar sent over to Thailand the first group of 260 people taken out of scam centres. So far, about 7,000 people of more than 20 nationalities , mostly Chinese, have been extracted ...

Show more Show less Thousands of freed scam centre workers in Myanmar are desperate to get home The United Nations estimates as many as 120,000 people may be working in Myanmar scam centres ...