In February 2024, Myanmar’s junta declared mandatory military service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27. Those ...

"I made up my mind that I had to do it because I had already taken their money." He adds that he "chose this desperate way" as he was struggling with debt and medical bills for his wife. Unemployment ...

The junta wants to wipe the slate clean by winding up the joint-venture company that used to oversee the ill-fated port project and start all over with Russian investors.

BANGKOK--An order by Myanmar’s central bank that all foreign currency in bank accounts must be converted into the local currency has many in the military-ruled country worried over potential losses.

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Their nightmare was supposed to be over. Last month, a dramatic and highly publicized operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release of more than 7,000 people from locked ...

enticed by promises of good money. China, where many of the scam victims come from, has acted to shut down scam operations along its own border with Myanmar, but until this year neither China nor ...

SINGAPORE - A woman has admitted in court that she did not know the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars that were transferred to her firm’s three corporate bank accounts.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar were set to return home Friday as the repatriation of thousands of such workers after a crackdown strains ...

Zeya says the money he received was enough to pay off his ... that's why I decided to sell my kidney," says Zeya, a farm worker in Myanmar. Prices had soared after a military coup in 2021 ...