AMONG the 61 victims from seven countries lured to work at the scam hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot town, released today (Feb. 6) are eight women, Naewna newspaper said, Rachamanu Task Force revealed that the 61 victims who had been working at the notorious Shwe Kokko scam centre in Myawaddy
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Police measures against transnational crimes stepped up in Chanthaburi
By Thai Newsroom Reporters POLICE HAVE STEPPED UP measures to deter and combat transnational crimes across the Thai-Cambodian border from Chanthaburi which could possibly flourish in lieu of those in Myanmar’s townships across the border from Thailand’s northern and northwestern provinces. Now that Thailand has shut off power and Internet signals earlier supplied ”unawares”
Read morePayathonzu border town cloaked in darkness after power cut
AFTER Thailand shut off electricity, Internet and fuel supplies from five points to Myanmar yesterday (Feb. 5) the neighbouring country’s Payathonzu border town, opposite Sangkhla Buri district in Kanchanaburi, plunged into darkness , Naewna newspaper said today. This action was taken by the National Security Council because call centre scammers entrenched along the Myanmar
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 moreMyawaddy scammers conning victims as usual having prepared in advance
DESPITE Thailand having this morning (Feb. 5) cut electricity, Internet and fuel supply to Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, just across the border from Mae Sot district, workers at a flourishing scam hub are continuing to con their victims as usual because their criminal bosses have stocked up fuel and installed backup generators in advance, Naewna
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 morePower supply to Myawaddy ordered shut: Phumtham
By Thai Newsroom Reporters POWER SUPPLY FROM a northwestern border district in Thailand to a scam-infested township in Myanmar was being completely shut off today (Feb.4), according to Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai. Phumtham confirmed today he has already ordered the Provincial Electricity of Thailand via the National Security Council to completely terminate
Read morePeace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages
By AP and published by Yahoo!News PEACE prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government. The political situation remains tense with no negotiation space in sight between the military government and the major opposition groups
Read morePM yet to order power supply freeze to Myanmar townships: Anutin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul commented today (Jan.30) Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has not as yet ordered him to shut off power supply to a Myanmar township where criminal rackets have thrived across the shared border from Thailand. Anutin said he could not act on his own in regard
Read moreAnalysis: Risk of violence escalates in Myanmar’s civil war as junta flags elections
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News FOUR years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar’s embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy – by pushing to hold another election. In the last two months, the junta has outlined plans to neighbours for
Read moreAnutin awaiting order for PEA power shutoff to Myanmar townships
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul confirmed today (Jan.29) he could immediately stop supplying power to Myanmar across the shared border only if ordered to do so by a government agency in charge of national security. The Provincial Electricity Authority under care of the Ministry of Interior could immediately terminate
Read moreKarenni refugees flock to Thai hospital after Trump assistance pause
THE KARENNI Army (KA) said refugees at two camps in Mae Hong Son are now seeking treatment at a Thai hospital after US President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on foreign development assistance led to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) suspending health service, Amarin TV said today (Jan. 28). IRC has been affected by the
Read moreAnutin urged to cut off power supply to scam centre in Myawaddy
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was pressed today (Jan.23) to cut off Thailand’s power supply for suspected transnational criminals in Myanmar once and for all. People’s MP Rangsiman Rome, who chairs the House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs & National Strategies and Reforms, called on Anutin to take
Read more32 Indonesian escape from Myawaddy scam hub
AS the bosses of a scam centre at Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, across the border from Thai town Mae Sot, have come under pressure 32 Indonesians managed to flee to Thailand today (Jan. 19), TV Channel 7 said. A joint patrol of the border by Rajamanu Task Force, Mae Sot and Immigration police and local
Read moreHoodwinked Chinese actor crosses back to Thailand
A CHINESE actor who disappeared at Thai-Myanmar border along Mae Sot last Friday (Jan. 3) said after being brought back to Thailand by Karen soldiers that another Chinese man had tricked into accepting work and he only realized after crossing the border to Myanmar that he had been conned by dared not resist, Naewna
Read moreChinese actor missing at Mae Sot after being tricked into joining a shoot here
A CHINESE actor’s girlfriend posted a message on Sina Weibo social media platform that he had been tricked into travelling to Thailand to film a drama before disappearing at Thai-Myanmar border with the Chinese consulate in Chiang Mai confirming that he went missing in Mae Sot, Naewna newspaper and Global Times said this afternoon
Read moreThailand hopeful four fishermen still jailed in Myanmar will soon be freed
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE FOUR THAI fishermen were not yet released today (Dec. 4) from prison in Myanmar’s Kawthaung township across the shared border from Ranong, police said. The Thai crewmembers of trawlers who had been arrested on maritime infringement charges by Myanmar authorities in the southern border township on Nov. 30 and
Read moreCaptured fishermen not among 151 Thais released on Myanmar Independence Day
By Naewna and AP – published by Yahoo!News ALTHOUGH Myanmar released 151 Thais today (Jan. 4) in marking its 77th anniversary of independence from Britain the four Thai fishermen captured by Myanmar navy in an attack on Thai trawlers on Nov. 30 and now sentenced to four to six years in jail were not
Read moreMyanmar fighter jets strafe Karenni refugee camp on New Year’s Eve killing three
AIRSTRIKES by Myanmar junta on a Karenni refugee camp on New Year’s Eve killed three persons including a child but there were no casualties in a second aerial attack on another part of Karenni state, Naewna newspaper said today (Jan. 1). Ayeyarwaddy News Agency quoted Mr. U Banyar, director of the Karenni Human Rights
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