The workers came from all over the world: Namibia, Russia, Zimbabwe, Malaysia, France. Some Chinese scammers were paid, Hannah discovered, though often not what they’d been promised.

South-east Asia has become the “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims billions of US dollars each year. Scam operations are run by Chinese crime ...

BANGKOK – Four Myanmar nationals caught in Bangkok on Dec 23 with 10 heavy-lift cargo drones they planned to smuggle to their home country will be deported there, Thai police said. and myriad rebel ...

YANGON – In August 2024, Myanmar’s ruling military junta was losing ground fast. A rebel offensive had swept down from the Chinese border and was threatening Mandalay, the country’s second-largest ...

It looked like a turning point in the global fight against scams. Myanmar’s military leadership, under growing international pressure, vowed to wipe out the industrial-scale cyberscam centers that ...

A Myanmar protester residing in Japan uses a face mask with an image of Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally denouncing an upcoming election led by the military junta and ...

A wave of class action lawsuits is targeting companies that offer online “sweepstakes” casino games, with plaintiffs alleging the platforms amount to illegal gambling in states that strictly prohibit ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Myanmar held relatively free and fair elections in 2020, dominated by Aung ...

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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government extended its crackdown on online scam activities to a second major location, detaining hundreds of foreigners and seizing thousands of mobile phones used ...