One such scam is known as “pig butchering”. This type of scam began attracting attention in China around 2019, and is ...

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

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Nearly 300 Indian nationals are escorted through Thailand's Mae Sot airport after being freed from criminal scam centres in neighbouring Myanmar. In recent weeks, around 7,000 workers have been ...

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

About 7,000 people pulled out of scam centres in Myanmar's Myawaddy are currently housed in camps administered by armed groups operating along the frontier, following a multi-national crackdown to ...

Some families report their missing loved one was last seen in a border area or relatives had received messages from Myanmar.

The state media outlet Agence Kampuchea Presse reported that 2,270 suspects were detained across Cambodia, mostly from ...

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.

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