Myanmar's military government has begun broadcasting extensive video on state television of its crackdown on online scam ...

A boat carrying about 300 migrants from Myanmar capsized last week in the Indian Ocean close to the maritime border between Thailand and Malaysia, with at least one body recovered floating in the sea, ...

India on Thursday repatriated 270 of its nationals from Thailand on two Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft, days after they fled to the Thai border town of Mae Sot from a notorious cyber scam ...

Just when you think that last year’s ban on Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) would keep us safe from this scourge comes the news report that more than 200 Filipinos were rescued Monday ...

BANGKOK — A major ethnic rebel group in Myanmar announced on Wednesday that it had signed a ceasefire agreement with the country’s military following China-mediated talks, easing months of intense ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. answers questions from Filipino journalists at the conclusion of the 47th Asean Summit and Related Summits in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 28, 2025. — Photo by ...

(UPDATE) THE Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) has mobilized its members to assist in the repatriation of 222 Filipinos from Myanmar who were reportedly victims of human trafficking.

Sitting inside an open-air shack along Thailand's porous border with Myanmar, Koko Chit couldn't believe that he was still alive. Desperate for money, he had left his wife and three children in July ...

More than 600 people fled one of Myanmar's most notorious scam centers and crossed into Thailand, a Thai provincial official told AFP on Thursday, after a military raid on the compound. Sprawling ...

Starlink around the world. Lauren Dreyer, SpaceX's vice president of business operations, announced that the company has disabled over 2,500 Starlink devices in Myanmar that are suspected of being ...

Myanmar's junta raided one of the country's most notorious cyberscam centers and seized Starlink satellite internet devices, it said Monday, after an AFP investigation revealed an explosion in their ...

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