a militia led by regional warlord Colonel Saw Chit Thu. “We will work until the scam centres and human trafficking are eradicated,” he told reporters on Feb 17, that signalled the growing ...

Speaking to Kyodo News and some Thai and Myanmar media in Myawaddy at the border with Thailand, Saw Chit Thu of the Karen Border Guard Force, or BGF, said it intends to transfer a group of Chinese ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Hundreds of workers from online scam centers in Myanmar have been rescued near the Thai border, ahead of an ...

Foreign nationals who were forced to work for scammers are pictured in Myawaddy, Myanmar, on Feb. 17, 2025, after being freed. (Faces pixelated for privacy reasons)(Kyodo) MYAWADDY, Myanmar (Kyodo ...

Maung Chit Thu, leader of the Border Guard Force (BGF/KNA), holds a press conference at BGF headquarters in Myawaddy, Myanmar, on February 17, 2025. MYAWADDY — Myanmar Border Guard Force (BGF ...

They would also be repatriated through Thailand. Col Saw Chit Thu, leader of the Myanmar junta-allied Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), told reporters in Myawaddy later on Monday that his force ...

Col Saw Chit Thu, Secretary-General of the Border Guard Force (BGF), held a press conference on Monday (February 17), at the BGF Command Centre. He addressed the issue of call-centre gangs operating ...

Major-General Saw Chit Thu of the BGF released a statement on Feb 13 saying the militia was “identifying, arresting and suppressing human traffickers and fraudsters who are illegally operating ...

Allahbadia issued an apology where he admitted that his comment was “inappropriate, unfunny, and a lapse in judgment.” 11:45 (IST) 16 Feb 2025 Fire at Pann Ali Mansion: 2 others suffer from ...

In the past four weeks, Councilors Etel Haxhiaj and Thu Nguyen have called for third-party investigations into alleged misgendering among council members and the use of “it” to refer to Nguyen ...

BGF forces inspect hundreds of foreigners at a Shwe Kokko building as leader Maung Chit Thu pledges to return illegal workers to Thailand, February 14, 2025. BANGKOK — Thai security officials ...

Thailand Department of Special Investigation has since requested arrest warrants for Col. Saw Chit Thu, Lt. Col. Mote Thone, and Maj. Tin Win, three leaders of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF ...