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Myawaddy in chaos after Thailand cuts power to Myanmar scam towns
Households, hospitals and businesses in turmoil as electricity, fuel and internet supplies withdrawn to combat transnational ...
Thailand cuts power supplies to Myanmar border towns in effort to curb scam rings
Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry ...
Third attempt to auction off the home of Myanmar’s ousted Aung San Suu Kyi fails to draw any bidders
A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been unsuccessful ...
The Irrawaddy3d
Arakan Army Defeats Myanmar Junta Base in Magwe Region Rout
Magwe hosts over a dozen of the junta’s ordnance factories, known by the Burmese acronym KaPaSa. KaPaSa 14, which produces ...
The Irrawaddy4d
Seeking Light in Dark Times Four Years After Myanmar Coup
YANGON—Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become ...
myanmar-now24d
Fighting ongoing between Karen armed groups in Myanmar’s south
The armed wing of the long-established, powerful ethnic national organisation Karen National Union (KNU) has been battling a breakaway group near the city of Dawei in Myanmar’s southernmost region ...
Voice of America24d
Chinese actor’s abduction to Myanmar sign of growing diversity of scams
The recent abduction of a Chinese TV actor to Myanmar and his subsequent release is shedding new light on the lengths to which human traffickers operating online scam centers in the war-torn ...
myanmar-now25d
Young people from Myanmar’s conflict zones face growing scrutiny in Yangon
Myanmar’s military regime has stepped up its efforts to keep track of young people from areas that it no longer controls, especially in Yangon, according to multiple sources. As conflict rages across ...
scmp.com25d
‘Scam City is growing’: how Myanmar’s cyber fraud hubs outfox efforts to shut them down
Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...
The Conversation25d
From Myanmar to Gaza, Ukraine to Sudan – 2024 was another grim year, according to our mass atrocity index
Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...
The Star27d
6,000-plus held captive in Myanmar’s human trafficking networks, says international report
BANGKOK/YANGON (The Nation Thailand/ANN): A report ... revealed that more than 6,000 people from 21 countries are being held captive in Myanmar. The victims, including 3,900 Chinese nationals ...
Nikkei Asia27d
Myanmar mobile carrier Mytel now on U.S. sanctions list
BANGKOK/YANGON -- U.S. authorities placed Myanmar mobile carrier Mytel on a sanctions roster due to its financial ties to the country's military. The U.S. Commerce Department added Mytel to its ...