Tag: Myawaddy

China’s Assistant Minister of Public Security, Liu Zhongyi, traveled to the Thai border to meet a group of 300 trafficking victims recently rescued from a scam operation in the notorious Myanmarese town of Myawaddy. Liu would accompany hundreds of victims (held in a camp controlled by the Karen ...

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 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.

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 ...