The move aims to deter the operations of call centre scamming gangs based in the area. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry ...

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The Lao government has announced that its firm determination to combat transnational telecom fraud has never wavered, ...

The power cut at 9 a.m. local time affects Myanmar’s Payathonzu in Mon state, Ban Muang Daeng and the Thai-Myanmar Friendship ...

One of those locations was in the town of Myawaddy, on the banks of a river that divides Thailand from Myanmar, and close to some of the largest scam compounds that NGOs say house thousands of ...

Fuel demand is soaring in the Myanmar border towns of Myawaddy, Payathonzu, and Tachileik after the Thai government cut off their electricity and fuel supply to cripple online scam centers there.

Electricity, internet services and fuel supply to five areas of Myanmar were to be cut off on Wednesday morning, the deputy ...

Myanmar residents in the area had already prepared as the possibility of a cutoff had been in the news for days. (Story continues below) In Tak province which borders Myawaddy, cross-border ...

Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center of a global, billion-dollar online scam industry.

The weekly outdoor market along the Thai-Myanmar border is feeling the pinch as a power shortage takes its toll on buyers from Myanmar.The Three Pagodas Friday market in Sangkhla Buri district, ...

Parts of Myanmar bordering Thailand, including Myawaddy and Tachilek, are known as havens for criminal syndicates who have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere ...