Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear of being arrested and sent back to Myanmar.
Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved – and how Indians became its targets.
The government has not yet decided whether to broadly cut electricity supplies to Myanmar to combat call-centre scammers ...
As a harbinger of US foreign policy directions, President Trump's sudden suspension of US$45 million (4.9 billion baht) for ...
Myanmar marks four years of a bloody civil war on Saturday with anti-regime forces holding the upper hand on battlefields ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze is reportedly wreaking havoc along the Thai-Myanmar border, where medical ...
The fate of actor Wang Xing prompted outrage in China after he disappeared and had to be saved from a Myanmar scam center.
Groups helping victims of Myanmar’s turmoil are struggling to provide assistance after the United States placed a 90-day ...
China and Thailand have pledged to jointly crack down on dozens of cyber scam gangs in Myanmar and related human trafficking, including setting up at least one coordination centre, according to Thai ...
The Myanmar junta insists online scam operators are foreigners thriving on cross-border infrastructure, and neighboring ...
Chinese tourists visiting Thailand for Lunar New Year are worried about being kidnapped by gangsters to work in hellish scam ...