Thai PM says 7,000 people rescued from Myanmar call centres to be handed over to Thailand
Some 7,000 people rescued from illegal call centre operations in Myanmar were waiting be transferred to Thailand, Prime ...
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Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams
Shwe Kokko has been left marooned in post-coup, war-wracked Myanmar, unable to bring in the flow of investment and visitors it needs to keep going. Yatai is trying to fix the city's sinister image ...
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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's house auction fails to attract bids for 3rd time
Yangon, Myanmar - February 05, 2025 The auction of the home of ousted leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon ended Wednesday with no bids, marking the third failed ...
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Myanmar, four years on
Four years after the military coup on February 1, 2021, Myanmar, ‘the sick man of Southeast Asia,’ continues to traverse a dismal path. The nation is fragmenting; there is no peace and stability; the ...
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Trump may succeed where the Myanmar military couldn’t – in silencing a defiant media house
Take the case of Myanmar, considered one of the least free countries in the world. The American nonprofit Freedom House gives Myanmar a score of nine out of 100 on the Global Freedom Index and ...
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Shwe Kokko: How governance failures and political quagmire created Myanmar’s most notorious crime hub
Shwe Kokko, in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township, is seen from the Thai side of the border (Myanmar Now) The story of how the Shwe Kokko New City Project became synonymous with transnational crime is ...
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Former Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe’s son-in-law sentenced to three years in prison for incitement
MANDALAY: Dr. Nay Soe Maung (pic), the son-in-law of Senior General Than Shwe (retired), was sentenced to three years in prison by a court inside Mandalay’s Obo Prison on January 16, according ...
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China detains suspect in human trafficking cases linked to online scam networks in Myanmar
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this image provided by the Royal Thai Police, Chinese actor Wang Xing, right, talks with Thai police ...
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Myanmar Junta Jails Ex-Dictator Than Shwe’s Son-In-Law for 3 Years
Facebook is banned in Myanmar but people ... In 2002, when Than Shwe was in power, he arrested the grandsons of ex-dictator Ne Win grandsons for leading a failed coup against him and placed Ne Win ...
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Myanmar leader expresses gratitude to China for support in country's development
YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar's State Administration Council Chairman Min Aung Hlaing has thanked China for its firm support for his country's peaceful and stable development. Myanmar's leader made the ...
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China’s support for Myanmar regime backfires; scam syndicates thrive
Reports of Chinese citizens trafficked into scam centers along the Thai-Myanmar border are prompting renewed questions about Beijing’s reliance on Myanmar’s military regime to tackle ...