Scams, casinos and high-rises: The BBC visits a bizarre city in a war zone
Glitzy videos by Yatai promised a $15bn (£12.1bn) investment and depicted a high-rise wonderland of hotels, casinos and ...
Thailand receives 61 foreign victims of human trafficking from Myanmar
Thai authorities have received 61 foreign nationals believed to be victims of human trafficking and scam operations in Myanmar Deputy Prime Minister ...
The Thaiger5h
Call centre scam victims rescued from Myanmar’s clutches
Sixty-one hapless victims, duped by call-centre scammers and whisked away to Myanmar, yesterday made a triumphant return to Thailand.
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Thailand to shut off electricity to Myanmar’s scam hubs
Thailand has cut electricity to Myanmar border towns harbouring scam centres tied to human trafficking and online fraud, ...
China's Xi and Thailand's leader vow to crack down on scam networks that plague Southeast Asia
China’s leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra have vowed to crack down on the scam networks that plague Southeast Asia as the two met in Beijing ...
Clip of Thai PM speech on scam centres manipulated to add fake subtitles
Reports of high-profile kidnappings on the Thai-Myanmar border have frightened Chinese tourists who were Thailand's top ...
61 people, including 39 Chinese and 13 Indians, rescued from scam centers in Myawaddy, Myanmar: Thai media
Some 61 people lured by call-center scammers to work in Myanmar were rescued and sent back to Thailand on Thursday. The group ...
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Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs
That a bank manager, of all people, could be fooled on a scale sufficient to bring down a bank is a sign of how sophisticated ...