Myanmar frees 1,000 scam center workers

Battered Myanmar scam center workers wait for deportation to China
Battered and bruised Chinese workers from online scam centers in Myanmar faced an anxious wait to return home, as Beijing and Thailand finalized plans on Wednesday for their repatriation. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar’s lawless borderlands,
Myanmar authorities launch operation at suspected online scam center, workers to be repatriated
Hundreds of workers from online scam centers in Myanmar have been rescued near the Thai border, ahead of an expected large-scale repatriation operation.
Myanmar frees 1,000 scam center workers as crackdown widens
The scam center victims are mostly from Asian countries including China and India while some others came from East Africa, according to Myanmar’s Ministry of Information.
Myanmar detains 270 foreigners from scam compounds on Thai border
Myanmar authorities detained 273 foreigners from scam compounds along the border with Thailand on Monday, as a senior Chinese official visited frontier towns on both sides in a widening crackdown on illegal online operations.
Rescued from virtual slavery in Myanmar's online scam centers, 260 foreigners are being repatriated
Some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after they were rescued from Myanmar, Thailand's army announced Thursday. In a fresh crackdown on scam centers operating from Southeast Asia,
Myanmar junta blocks fuel to eastern border scam center town
Myanmar’s junta has blocked the supply of fuel to a town bordering Thailand where scam centers are rampant days after Thailand cut cross-border power, fuel and internet services to the lawless enclave where fraud and forced labor have thrived.
Hundreds of Myanmar scam center victims handed over to Thai army
Thailand has received 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopians, from Myanmar, its army said on Thursday, in a massive repatriation that comes amid a mounting crackdown on scam centers operating along a porous border. Sean Hogan has more.
Myanmar Militia Says Ready to Deport 10,000 Cyber Scam Workers
YANGON—A Myanmar ethnic militia said on Saturday it was preparing to deport 10,000 people linked to cyber scams in the area it controls to Thailand as part of a crackdown on the illicit compounds.
Thailand cuts power to Myanmar’s scam centers in anti-crime push
The power cut at 9 a.m. local time affects Myanmar’s Payathonzu in Mon state, Ban Muang Daeng and the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Tachileik, Shan state, and the eastern town of Myawaddy in Kayin state, he said.
Myanmar frees 1,000 scam center workers including Indians as crackdown widens
The scam center victims are mostly from Asian countries including China and India while some others came from East Africa, according to Myanmar’s Ministry of Information.
China to fly back 200 nationals rescued from Myanmar scam centres, Thai official says
China will fly home about 200 of its nationals found in scam-running compounds on the Thai-Myanmar border, a Thai security official said on Tuesday, as part of a multinational effort to crack down on illegal online operations run from the region.
A top Chinese official tours Thai-Myanmar border to highlight crackdown on scam centers
Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appear to gain momentum with a visit by a top Chinese official to the ...
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China Names Point Man on Myanmar Scam Gangs
Assistant Minister for Public Security Liu Zhongyi has been given the assignment of combating scam operations run by Chinese ...
Senior officials from China, Thailand, Myanmar arrive in Myawaddy in joint efforts to combat telecom fraud
Senior officials from Myanmar, China, and Thailand have arrived in Myawaddy in Myanmar to crack down on telecom fraud and ...