Scam centres that operated along the Thai-Myanmar border for years have drawn fresh attention after the high-profile ...

Criminal gangs have trafficked hundreds of thousands of people to such centres to generate illicit revenues. Read more at ...

The Trilateral Highway was considered to be one of the most concrete efforts in India’s Act East Policy. However, work on ...

Scams in the region originated from loosely regulated casinos and online gambling, beginning in the 1990s and gathering pace in the 2000s ... Thailand's city of Mae Sot, which borders Myawaddy.

Of these, around 600 Chinese nationals will be sent home on three flights starting Thursday from the Thai border town of Mae Sot once they cross over, Thai Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said.

Yotor and his countrymen are among 260 people, most of them human-trafficking victims, who were sent from Myanmar to Thailand last week as a multinational crackdown on scam centres along the border ...