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).

China began repatriating its citizens who worked in cyber fraud operations in Myanmar following a multi-national crackdown on the centers dubbed by international groups as a nexus of human rights ...

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.

China, where many of the scam victims come from, has acted to shut down scam operations along its own border with Myanmar, but until this year neither China nor Thailand had done much about the ...

More than 40,000 people suspected of taking part in cyber scams in Myanmar were handed over to China in 2023.

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 ...

Thai Army soldiers photograph and film the 261 foreign nationals rescued from online scam operations in Myawaddy, Myanmar, as part of an escalating crackdown on human trafficking and cyber fraud ...

The camps are unsanitary, food barely sufficient, and many of those being held are in poor health.

Sister of a scam victim – who was lured to Myanmar under the pretence of a job – says she hopes he can be home for Ramadan at the end of the month.

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.