A RAID on a company located at Mae Sot’s cargo port found underground internet cables feeding signals to scam gangs across the Moei river in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, Amarin TV said today (Mar. 6). Armed with a search warrant issued by Mae Sot provincial court, Pol. Lt. Col. Trin Leelanuch, head of Cyber Crime
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Cyber Police cut illegal Internet links to foreign investors at Mae Sot
UPON being alerted by AIS 3BB FIBRE3 of likely illegal Internet use at Mae Sot, Tak province, with Myanmar’s Myawaddy border town just across Moei river, Cyber Police raided three suspicious commercial buildings where a criminal network was found and was immediately cut with investigation underway to catch those who set it up, Naewna
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 moreThai-Cambodian meeting makes progress on installing border markers
THE sixth Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Committee (JBC) meeting in Phnom Penh concluded successfully with these talks being an important step towards installing of border markers along the 800-kilometre border, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (June 15). The Thai Foreign Ministry said in a Facebook post that Thai Ambassador Prasas Prasasvinitchai, chairman of JBC, and
Read moreKK Park scam hub dark on 4th night of power cut
ON THE fourth night of Thailand cutting electricity, Internet and fuel supply from five points to Myanmar aimed at suppressing scammers holed up along the border the notorious scam centre KK Park in Myawaddy township, just across from Mae Sot town, is dark with only 20 to 30% of the lights switched on, TV
Read moreAs Payathonzu people struggle in the dark, Chinese gangs enjoy all-night karaoke session
AS PEOPLE in Myanmar’s Payathonzu township, opposite Sangkhlaburi district of Kanchanaburi, struggle to live without electricity after Thailand cut off supply on Wednesday morning (Feb. 5) the Chinese gangs there used generators to run a karaoke at an entertainment venue singing happily all night long, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said today. Aside from
Read moreTachiliek still brightly lit but scam centre dimmer
MYANMAR’S Tachileik town, opposite Mae Sai town in Chiang Rai province, remained brightly lit tonight (Feb. 5) having got electricity from Laos after Thailand cut off this supply plus Internet service and fuel deliveries from five points this morning (Feb. 5) in targeting scam centres that have proliferated along Myanmar side of the border,
Read moreChaos in Tachileik as Myanmar people rush to buy fuel after supply cut
CHAOS erupted in Myanmar’s Tachileik border town, opposite Mae Sai town in Chiang Rai province, after Thailand cut off electricity, Internet and fuel supply from five points to Myanmar border areas at 9 a.m. this morning (Feb. 5) with two being to Tachileik, Amarin TV said. This action was taken to resolve the problem
Read moreThailand zeros in on scam gangs by cutting power, Internet and fuel supply from tomorrow morning
THAILAND is taking aim at call centre scammers ensconced along the border in Myanmar by cutting off electricity, Internet and fuel delivery to five areas from 9 a.m. tomorrow morning (Feb. 5), TV Channel 7 and Amarin TV said this evening. Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai called an urgent meeting of the National
Read moreCrackdown on transmitting Internet signals to crime zone across the border
IN A crackdown on transmitting Internet signals to Myanmar’s Myawaddy township from Mae Sot border town, a hundred officials, police and soldiers raided six targeted spots and seized a lot of communication devices, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (June 28). Mr. Trairat Viriyasirikul, acting secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of
Read moreThailand urged to stop feeding power to Myawaddy’s online scam, casino district
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND IS STRONGLY ADVISED to literally cut off power lines and internet signals feeding “grey Chinese capitalists” in a certain area of Myanmar’s Myawaddy township riddled with online scams and gambling dens. House Committee on National Security, Border Affairs, National Strategies & Reforms Chair Rangsiman Rome urged the Thai authorities,
Read moreFilipina wins transgender pageant in Pattaya
By Reuters and published by US News & World Report FILIPINA Fuschia Anne Ravena was crowned Miss International Queen 2022 on Saturday at a contest in Pattaya billed as the world’s largest and most popular transgender pageant. The 27-year-old business owner beat 22 other contestants for the crown, with the second and third place going
Read moreForget tweeting and selfies: What the Internet really wants is to watch you eat
Published by Channel NewsAsia VIDEOS with the hashtag “whatieatinaday” have been viewed more than 7 billion times on TikTok. The Financial Times’ Elaine Moore digs into the global phenomenon. MUKBANG videos always start with the food. Heaps of bright red crab legs or bowls of glistening noodles sit close to the camera. Behind them, the
Read moreMultiple global websites down amid widespread Internet outage
By Channel NewsAsia and agencies SEVERAL international websites were down today (June 8), including Amazon, Reddit, CNN, The Guardian and The New York Times. Error messages appeared on the websites at around 1000 GMT (5pm Thai time). Some reports pointed to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas
Read moreWall Street will never be the same again
(New York) – This week, the biggest story in the financial markets is the absurdist, (pretty-sure-I-hallucinated-it) drama involving GameStop, a struggling video game retailer that became the rope in a high-stakes tug of war between Wall Street suits and a crusading internet mob. The simplest explanation for what happened is that a bunch of hyper-online
Read moreA massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
By Zack Whittaker, Techcrunch.com THAILAND’S largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With
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