China has repatriated more than 900 citizens it suspects of working in internet scam centers in Myanmar's borderlands, a ...

A new U.N. report warns that transnational organized crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative ...

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 say ...

Using a flight ticket provided by the man, he arrived in Thailand and was eventually taken to a hotel in Myanmar, where he was forced to take part in a global scam operation involving tens of ...

A group of more than 270 some men and women, who were rescued from forced labor in scam compounds two months ago but remain in detention in Myanmar, attempted a mass escape Sunday out of fear that ...

This file photo taken on Feb. 26, 2025, shows foreign nationals gathered in a building at a scam center near Myawaddy, eastern Myanmar. (Kyodo) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- In the wake of the rescue of two ...

The group were among around 7,000 people recently released from scam centers run by criminal gangs and warlords operating along Myanmar’s border with Thailand, where many are held against their ...

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

BANGKOK--Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appeared to ... casinos and scam operations along its border in Myanmar’s northern Shan state. Ethnic guerrilla groups with close ...

Last month, a dramatic and highly publicized operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led ... it even harder to get help to released scam center workers. The United Nations ...