Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appear to gain momentum with a visit by a top Chinese official to the ...

Myanmar authorities detained 273 foreigners from scam compounds along the border with Thailand on Monday, as a senior Chinese ...

China will fly home about 200 of its nationals found in call-centre scam compounds on the Thailand-Myanmar border, a Thai security official said on Tuesday, as part of a multinational effort to crack ...

A master of defection and betrayal, the warlord has secured wealth, influence and control over the illicit underworld along the Thai-Myanmar border Who Is Saw Chit Thu? One of the persons facing an ...

The issue gained further global attention last month when Thai police, under pressure from Beijing, rescued Chinese actor Wang Xing, who had been trafficked to Myawaddy and forced into scam operations ...

Thai officials reported that actor Wang Xing was trafficked ... syndicates effectively because the Myanmar military must rely on militia leader Saw Chit Thu to maintain control over Myawaddy ...

The Chinese group will be flown back on a commercial aircraft on Thursday from Thailand's Mae Sot, which borders Myawaddy ...

The rights group Justice for Myanmar exposed the BGF’s involvement ... Major Tin Win (left), Colonel Saw Chit Thu (middle), and Lieutenant Colonel Mote Thone Last month, the BGF found itself in the ...

Colonel Saw Chit Thu founded the BGF in 2010 after splitting from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKB), itself a splinter group from the Karen National Union (KNU). The BGF operates under the de ...

Like the DKBA, Saw Chit Thu broke away from the main Karen insurgent group, the KNU, in 1994, and allied himself to the Myanmar military ... her career as a child actor and was seen as one ...

14, 2025. Thai authorities have been applying mounting pressure on BGF, including cutting off electricity, fuel, and internet services to the Myanmar side. Maung Chit Thu himself faces potential ...