Thailand pushing to repatriate foreigners pulled from Myanmar scam centres
Thailand is working with authorities in the capital cities or embassies of some countries that have citizens stuck on the ...
Thailand arrests 100 people for operating in border scam centre
Thailand's police on Wednesday detained 100 people for their alleged involvement in a scam centre in Cambodia, its first ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN4d
Thailand repatriates hundreds more Chinese scam centre workers
Hundreds of Chinese nationals freed from Myanmar online scam centres flew home through Thailand on Thursday, as the kingdom ...
They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are detained on the Myanmar border
An operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release of more than 7,000 people from locked compounds in ...
300 Indian Workers Among 7,000 Freed From Myanmar Scam Centres, Flown Back In C-17
Nearly 300 Indians trapped in Myanmar’s scam centres were rescued and brought back home in a C-17 aircraft, according to a ...
They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are held in detention on the Myanmar border
Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world squat in rows, packed ...
Nikkei Asia16h
Myanmar militias, scam syndicates gamble to ride out Thai crackdown
MAE SOT, Thailand -- On a recent morning, one side of the bridge connecting Mae Sot, a western Thai border town, with Myawaddy in Myanmar was jammed with traffic. Myanmar residents -- cut off from ...
Pattaya Mail1d
Thailand reports 80% decrease in call center scam cases following serious shutdown
The government has reported an 80% decrease in call center scam cases following a nationwide crackdown under Prime Minister ...
The Christian Post8d
Christian group IJM works with Thai authorities to rescue 260 trafficking victims from scam compounds
Some 260 workers from 19 countries have been released from human trafficking scam compounds in Myanmar, reports International ...
The Associated Press on MSN11d
Scam center crackdown in Myanmar threatens humanitarian crisis in Thailand
MAE SOT, Thailand — A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to more than 7,000 people from around the world being held ...
The New York Times11d
On a Lawless Tropical Border, the Global Scam Industry Thrives
But even as the planes headed north, construction workers in these scam centers — modern tower blocks within sight of the Thai side of the frontier — continued to weld and hammer into the ...