By AFP and published by CNA RECENT raids on one of Myanmar’s most notorious internet scam hubs sparked a recruitment rush as fleeing workers scrambled to enlist at nearby fraud factories, experts and insiders told AFP. Online scam hubs have mushroomed across Southeast Asia, draining unsuspecting victims of billions of dollars annually in elaborate
Month: November 2025
Cambodia tells UNESCO border clashes seriously damaged Preah Vihear Temple.
CAMBODIA told the 43rd UNESCO general assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, that the five-day border clashes between Thai and Khmer soldiers in July caused serious damage to the World Heritage Site of Preah Vihear Temple, Naewna newspaper said today (Nov. 4). Dr. Phoeung Sackona, Cambodian minister of culture and fine arts, told the UNESCO meeting
Read moreAnother Thai woman dies mysteriously in Poipet
JUST days after a Thai woman allegedly fell to her death from a building at Cambodian border town Poipet, just across from Aranyaprathet, another woman was found hanged in a room there yesterday (Nov. 3), Amarin TV and TV Channel 7 said last night. Mr. Bird, a team member of Immanuel Foundation (IMF) in
Read moreStarlink internet shutoff suggested to deactivate Khmer-based scammers
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND MAY ASK the United States to consider shutting off Starlink internet signals accessible inside Cambodia and along the Thai-Cambodian border in order to deactivate transnational scamming networks based in the Indochinese state, said former deputy police chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakparn today (Nov.3). The Bhumjaithai-led government under Prime Minister
Read moreRetirement age for civil servants not rising to 70: Deputy PM
DEPUTY Prime Minister Borwornsak Uwanno today (Nov. 3) denied the government is moving to raise the retirement age for general civil servants from 60 to 70 as has been rumoured with this likely going up to 65, Naewna and Thai Rath newspapers said. The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has conducted a study on extending
Read morePM concerned over potential world boycotts against Thailand over scammers
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul today (Nov.3) expressed concern over Cambodia-based scamming/money-laundering networks which, he said, could possibly prompt the world community to declare potential boycotts against Thailand if those rogue, transnational criminals were not arrested and brought to justice by the Thai authorities. The prime minister who concurrently performs as
Read moreCity floods easing as BMA rushes to drain out floodwaters after torrential rain
BANGKOK Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said at midmorning today (Nov. 3) significant flooding in many parts of the city caused by torrential overnight rain has started to recede in almost all areas but small alleys and low-lying zones remain inundated, TV Channel 7 and Naewna newspaper said. The heavy downpour last night only stopped at
Read moreThailand was the turning point where ‘Nobody’s Girl’ went from victim to warrior
“NOBODY’S GIRL” Virginia Roberts Giuffre found love, freedom and healing in Thailand. Although media coverage of her tell-all biography has been dominated by her contacts with the now defrocked prince Andrew and an Israeli former Prime Minister, it contains two heart-warming chapters narrating how she met her future husband in Chiang
Read moreScam gangs entrapping children via online games: Cyber Police
THE Technology Crime Suppression Division police today (Nov. 2) warned parents to beware of cybercriminals craftily luring and entrapping children through online games, PPTVHD 36 said. In a Facebook message, Cyber Police drew attention to hidden threats in children’s games as there are gangs that target youngesters lurking around. The online world is not
Read more9 Chinese men who fled bombed scam hub in Myanmar caught at Trat
ROUNDED UP early this morning (Nov. 2) at a resort in Trat province, which shares a border with Cambodia, were nine Chinese men who had 48 mobile phones with them and believed to have fled the heavily bombed KK Park scam complex at Myawaddy township, Myanmar, which is opposite Mae Sot district, Tak, to
Read moreSenator urges govt to deal with increased flooding caused by Malaysia’s border wall
A SENATOR asked whether the government has a plan to deal with the flooding problem worsening due to Malaysia having started building a border wall at Kelantan state opposite Thailand’s Narathiwat province and abutting Sungai Kolok river, Naewna newspaper said. Mr. Chaiyong Meerungsakul, a senator who came from the media industry and is a
Read moreJan. 2 added as special holiday, stretching New Year break to 5 days
THE Cabinet has approved Friday January 2, 2026 as a special holiday thus extending the New Year break to five days, PPTVHD 36 said today (Nov. 1). A Cabinet meeting of the previous coalition government with de facto Pheu Thai boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the prime minister had on Nov. 12,
Read moreFisherman rescued after floating in the sea for days
A FISHMERMAN whose trawler sank was rescued after spending eight days floating in stormy seas clinging onto a tank lid, TV Channel 7 said this morning (Nov. 1). On Oct. 24 Mr. Yutthana (surname withheld), 58, took his trawler, Chok Neung, out to sea alone from Rayong City’s Phe subdistrict to catch squid near
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