A Myanmar ethnic militia said on Saturday it was preparing to deport 10,000 people linked to cyber scams in the area it controls to Thailand as part of a crackdown on the illicit compounds.

Bangkok has taken a number of recent measures to clamp down on the cyberfraud operations in the border region.

Karen militia leader Saw Chit Thu, aligned with Myanmar’s junta, has protested Thailand’s move to seek his arrest over the proliferation of online scam centres in his stronghold of Myawaddy, a border ...

Human trafficking prosecutors believe the evidence may be insufficient for the court to issue arrest warrants for the three ...

Notorious warlord Saw Chit Thu claims he has done “a lot” to combat human trafficking to online scam centers in his Myawaddy fiefdom and helped free many of their victims.

Thai authorities say they are requesting arrest warrants for three leaders of an ethnic Karen militia believed to be ...

The sight of tall, shiny buildings emerging from the cornfields on the Myanmar side of the Moei river is so striking that one might question its reality, finding themselves blinking in disbelief.

It is accused of being a city built on scams, home to a lucrative yet deadly nexus of fraud, money-laundering and human ...

With mounting pressure from Bangkok and Beijing, it is becoming more difficult for Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) chief Maj Gen Saw Chit Thu to protect the grey business empire along the Moei river in ...

The Myanmar junta insists online scam operators are foreigners thriving on cross-border infrastructure, and neighboring countries must do their part to suppress them.