More than 170 Filipinos who were promised jobs in Thailand but were instead trafficked, scammed, and even tortured in Myanmar ...
Arrests in Poipet were the latest in an eight-week Thai-initiated crackdown on criminal syndicates operating just across its ...
A breakdown of border trade with neighbouring countries revealed that trade with Laos was the highest at 28.078 billion baht, ...
Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, who also chairs the National Security Council, noted that call centre scam operations ...
The U.S.-funded broadcasters Radio Free Asia and Voice of America have long been a thorn in the side of the region’s ...
Aneka Boram is one of thousands of people who've recently escaped from so-called scam centres. She talks about her captivity and describes the harsh punishments and conditions she was forced to work ...
The Filipinos, believed to be human trafficking victims, are repatriated after being recruited through social media to work as customer sales representatives ...
Myanmar has struggled with civil war, military rule and widespread poverty for much of the past seven decades. But the ...
A Japanese man suspected of luring a high school student out of Japan to work for scam operations in Myanmar has been ...
The criminal groups, reportedly mostly Chinese-run, operate throughout Myanmar, as well as in Cambodia and Laos. They are believed to generate tens of billions of dollars each year, using an army ...