Category: Crime

The Thai government announced ramped-up action against fraud operations running on trafficked labor across its border with war-torn Myanmar. It requested arrest warrants for figures involved in the gangs, including three members of the Karen Border Guard Force, a militia that controls the town of Myawaddy, a ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Thursday for the "strong measures" her country has taken against scam centers targeting Chinese people. Scam compounds have mushroomed along the Thai-Myanmar borderlands, staffed by trafficked foreigners who are ...

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra embarked on a four-day visit to China on Wednesday, soon after Thai authorities cut the cross-border power supply to Shwe Kokko, a town in Myanmar said to house huge scam operations staffed by victims of trafficking. The ...

Thailand is taking unprecedented action against transnational cybercrime syndicates by cutting electricity, internet, and fuel supplies to key crime hubs in Myanmar, starting today. Starting this morning, Thai authorities shut down essential services to five locations across the border in ...

Unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying staff from the Chinese state-owned oil major CNPC near Niger's Agadem oil field, killing two local security guards and taking two of the Chinese nationals hostage. The incident, according to French news reports, took place ...

Indonesia’s Ministry of Immigration and Correctional Affairs (Imipas) has removed 30 immigration officers from their posts and conducting investigation at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport following allegations of extortion targeting Chinese nationals. Minister of Immigration Agus Andrianto confirmed the action after receiving ...

Chinese and Thai officials visited the Thai-Myanmar border region in Tak province on Wednesday to discuss how to tackle Chinese scam gangs embedded across the border in the Myanmarese city of Myawaddy. They are reportedly planning a joint center dedicated to cracking down on the problem.

By Montira Rungjirajittranon and Sarah Lai Chinese tourists visiting Thailand for Lunar New Year are worried about being kidnapped by gangsters to work in hellish scam centers, despite efforts to reassure them. Chinese nationals topped ...

A suspect accused of involvement in numerous scam-related trafficking cases, including kidnapping the Chinese actor Wang Xing and trafficking him to Myanmar, was arrested and deported to China. The suspect, a Chinese national identified as Yan Wenlei, was reportedly nabbed through a joint effort by the Thai ...

Officials from China, Myanmar, and Thailand met in Kunming, China, on Tuesday agreed to join forces and conduct a joint operation to crack down online scams, online gambling, and growing number of telecommunication fraud centers operating out of Myanmar. According to China’s national broadcaster, CCTV, the ...

Officials from China, Thailand, and Myanmar agreed jointly to target a notorious telecom scam hub in the Burmese city of Myawaddy, reports China’s state media. Officials from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos also attended the meeting in Kunming, Yunnan province. The initiative aims to use the Lancang-Mekong cross-border law ...

Thailand on Wednesday posted an AI-generated video of its prime minister speaking in Mandarin, encouraging Chinese tourists to visit the kingdom despite reports of kidnappings on the Thai-Myanmar border. In the clip made by generative artificial intelligence posted to the government's ...