The move aims to deter the operations of call centre scamming gangs based in the area. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry ...

Some 61 people lured by call-center scammers to work in Myanmar were rescued and sent back to Thailand on Thursday. The group ...

Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked Thailand’s visiting prime minister on Thursday for a crackdown on scam centers in ...

Fuel demand is soaring in the Myanmar border towns of Myawaddy, Payathonzu, and Tachileik after the Thai government cut off their electricity and fuel supply to cripple online scam centers there.

The measures were announced on the eve of PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s state visit to China, during which she is set to ...

Electricity, internet services and fuel supply to five areas of Myanmar were to be cut off on Wednesday morning, the deputy ...

The power cut at 9 a.m. local time affects Myanmar’s Payathonzu in Mon state, Ban Muang Daeng and the Thai-Myanmar Friendship ...

Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry demanding government action to tackle the problem.

The Myawaddy area in Myanmar, opposite the Thai border town of Mae Sot, is the “global capital” of scams, opposition People’s Party lawmaker Rangsiman Rome told VOA on Wednesday.

“I spent two months in Thailand last year and I thought Bangkok ... Chinese actor Wang Xing was rescued from a so-called scam farm in Myawaddy in Myanmar, according to media reports.