Following a month-long crackdown on call center gangs in Myawaddy, Myanmar, across from Thailand’s Mae Sot district, authorities have detained over 7,000 foreign nationals from 30 countries and ...

Chinese believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers after they were rescued in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiravuth ...

More than 220,000 people have been trafficked to Southeast Asia and forced to scam people around the world. Funding cuts to ...

An operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release of more than 7,000 people from locked compounds in ...

Thousands of people have been freed in recent weeks from the online scam centers operating near the Myanmar-Thai border. Most ...

Nearly 300 Indians returned home via Thailand after being rescued from scam centers in Myanmar. A crackdown, mainly targeting ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with journalist Jan Camenzind Broomby about the thousands of people who are stuck in limbo after being caught in online scam centers in Myanmar but who can't return home.

Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world squat in rows, packed ...

Notorious scam centers in the Golden Triangle between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos steal billions of dollars a year from U.S. citizens.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar arrived ... ending up in online gambling operations or bogus investment schemes in Myanmar and several other ...

MAE SOT, Thailand — A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those helping them ...