Myanmar, scam and China

China to fly back 200 nationals rescued from Myanmar scam centres, Thai official says
China will fly home about 200 of its nationals found in scam-running compounds on the Thai-Myanmar border, a Thai security official said on Tuesday, as part of a multinational effort to crack down on illegal online operations run from the region.
A top Chinese official tours Thai-Myanmar border to highlight crackdown on scam centers
Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appeared to gain momentum on Monday as a top Chinese security official visited both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border.
Myanmar returns 100 scam centre workers to China
Myanmar has handed over more than 100 Chinese scam centre workers to be repatriated through Thailand, the third batch in a major crackdown on the illegal operations.
Thousands in limbo on Thai-Myanmar border after scam centre crackdown
Thousands of foreigners freed from online scam-operating centres in Myanmar are stuck in limbo on the border with Thailand after a multinational crackdown on the compounds run by criminal gangs, three sources told Reuters on Monday.
China begins repatriation from Thailand of more than 1,000 online scam workers rescued from Myanmar
The nations have coordinated efforts over the past month to shut down the scam centers that bilked victims around the world out of billions of dollars.
Hundreds of workers detained and repatriated from scam compounds on Thai border
Hundreds of workers were detained and repatriated from scam compounds in Myanmar. The alleged scammers were caught during raids of suspected call centre gang offices in the Myawaddy Township, on February 18.
Why China may face 'scrutiny' over using police diplomacy to help developing world
Chinese nationals rescued from online scam centres in Myanmar were repatriated to China, while hundreds more are expected to ...
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China begins repatriating more than 1,000 scam workers rescued from Myanmar
An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centres in eastern Myanmar has begun, after the rescued workers were taken across the border to Thailand and put ...
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Thai-China-Myanmar talks set on transnational crime
A tripartite meeting between Thailand, China and Myanmar will be held to deal with cross-border crime, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa.Mr Maris said on Monday that Thailand ...
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Remaking Myanmar will be slow and painful
With the civil conflict in Myanmar still unresolved four years after the military coup, a new political equilibrium might ...
China Flies Home First Nationals From Myanmar ‘Scam Centers’
China began repatriating 200 of its citizens who worked in cyber fraud operations in Myanmar, the first batch returning from ...
Tension for India as China builds giant radar system near Myanmar border, has massive range of..., can detect India's...
China has established a Large Phased Array Radar (LPAR) system in Yunnan province, close to the Myanmar border, which has a ...
Chinese court tries Myanmar gang accused of scams, drugs, extortion and murder
A Chinese court has begun hearing charges against 23 members of a notorious Myanmar-based telecoms fraud gang accused of a ...
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Tracing China’s Long Entanglement in Myanmar
Bertil Lintner looks at the often devious ways in which China cemented the pauk-phaw or kinship relationship to become the dominant foreign power in Myanmar, sidelining all others.