With mounting pressure from Bangkok and Beijing, it is becoming more difficult for Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) chief Maj ...

Efforts are being ramped up to eliminate scam centers, human trafficking, and drug smuggling along the Thai-Myanmar border ...

Myanmar’s Myawaddy area, opposite Thailand’s Mae ... all unlocked at the price of a bank transfer or cryptocurrency payment. The businesses operate from compounds beyond the reach of ...

This includes comprehensive control of these black and gray industries from the source and across the entire chain, implementing measures such as cleaning up fraudulent bank cards, phone cards ...

Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved – and how Indians became its targets.

Additionally, on January 12, the Embassy reported the repatriation of an Indian national from Kerala, who was released from the Myawaddy scam centre and repatriated via Yangon Airport. This ...

Thailand’s visa waiver programme for Chinese nationals has come under scrutiny after the high-profile alleged kidnapping of a ...

Bank SinoPac, a Taiwanese bank, has officially become the majority shareholder of Amret Microfinance Institution (MFI), acquiring an 80% stake. The agreement was finalised after the regulatory ...

After the successful rescue of Chinese actor Wang Xing from Myawaddy, rampant criminal activities along the Thailand-Myanmar border have drawn great attention worldwide. A wave of similar cases ...

There are reportedly 36 major Chinese-operated call-centre gangs based in Myanmar’s Myawaddy city, employing over 100,000 individuals to make fake calls to dupe people out of money, a top Chinese ...

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