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YANGON: A Myanmar ethnic armed group has arrested more than 760 Chinese citizens suspected of being involved in online scams and handed them over to China, its spokesperson said on Wednesday (Nov 20).
A Myanmar ethnic armed group has arrested more than 760 Chinese citizens suspected of being involved in online scams and handed them over to China, its spokesperson said on Nov. 20.. The United Wa ...
Alleged scam centre workers and victims from China handed over from Myanmar board a plane in Thailand’s Tak province on Feb. 20. Photographer: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images Facebook ...
In November 2023, Htun was trapped in a cyber-scamming compound in Laukkai, in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State on the border with China, when the city came under siege. For nearly a year, the ...
A group of 260 freed workers were brought over the Moei River on a raft earlier this month. And around 621 Chinese nationals were flown straight back to China with a police escort on chartered planes.
More than 40,000 people suspected of taking part in cyber scams in Myanmar were handed over to China in 2023. Myanmar's Myawaddy town is seen from across the Thai border in Mae Sot on April 11 ...
A Myanmar insurgent group, the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, which recently raided scam centers in the region, handed the victims over to Thai authorities on Feb. 12.
A Chinese actor was enslaved in a compound running online scams. The United Nations estimated in a report last August that more than 200,000 people are being forced to work as scammers in Myanmar ...
"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 ...
Myanmar handed over 84 Indonesians to Thailand on Thursday, local officials said, the latest group of alleged scam center workers set to be repatriated from the region.
Thirty nine foreigners have fled an online scam centre in Myanmar across the border to Thailand, where officials are working to identify potential trafficking victims, police told AFP on Monday ...