More than a million people have fled Myanmar's brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where ...

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Myanmar's junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of foreign nationals pulled out of scam compounds in Myanmar during a crackdown on centres run by criminal gangs have little food, scant healthcare and filthy toilets ...

(Kyodo) MAE SOT — The whereabouts of some 20 Japanese nationals believed to have been present at a scam-operating center in eastern Myanmar are unknown, an ethnic armed group who conducted a ...

The whereabouts of some 20 Japanese nationals believed to have been present at a scam-operating center in eastern Myanmar are unknown, an ethnic armed group who conducted a search of the facility said ...

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At least seven Japanese nationals have been taken into protective custody from large-scale scam centers at the Thai-Myanmar border — thought to hold at least 120,000 people — with many more ...

Two Japanese high school students were earlier rescued from the scam syndicate base in Myanmar. They were apparently forced to scam elderly people in Japan out of their money by pretending to be ...

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Myanmar has allegedly become a hub for fraud rings operated by Chinese crime syndicates and others. Japanese high school students are among the many foreigners forced to work on scams there.