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The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella.

Astens of thousands are freed, female survivors are increasingly reporting gender-based violence in the compounds, previously thought to hold mainly men.

More Brits who were onboard a turbulent Singapore Airlines flight which left one grandfather dead and dozens more injured have joined forces to sue the airline.

"A ’river of blood’ was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. ’I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.’"

Arms giant Thales, in which the French state is a shareholder, has sold six radars to the Burmese forces for monitoring its coast, Disclose and Info Birmanie can reveal.

Passangers on a Singapore Airlines flight left injured by severe turbulence that killed a grandfather are suing for personal injury compensation, The Sun can reveal.

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, who led a coup against Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, has become the country’s president after winning a parliamentary vote on Friday.

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

Myanmar’s military government says “special operations” over the past two years have dismantled infrastructure at major scam compounds, including KK Park, and led to the repatriation of tens of thousands of foreign nationals forced into online fraud.

The Nepalis were lured to Myanmar by promises of legitimate jobs, but said they were tortured and forced to work in scam compounds before being rescued.

In a statement Thursday, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the measures mark the country’s first independent sanctions regarding transnational crime and the “largest single sanction measure in history”.

Myanmar’s military has arrested 346 people during a raid on a scam center in the Shwe Kokko area along the country’s border with Thailand, the Ministry of Information stated Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a Myanmar rebel group and several associates for running cyber scam operations that target Americans and exploit trafficked workers.

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a migrant boat from Myanmar capsized near Malaysia.

Myanmar’s junta conducted a raid on one of the country’s most infamous internet scam centres and confiscated Starlink devices, it announced on Monday, following an investigation that uncovered a surge in their usage in the multibillion-dollar illegal industry.

A British teenager missing in Thailand is feared to have been pulled into a scam operation run by Chinese gangs.

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their alleged roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of operating illegal gambling and scam activities worth more than $1.4 billion, and for the deaths of workers who defied them.

United Nations investigators report that Myanmar’s military destroyed Rohingya villages, employing private companies to clear the land and construct security infrastructure.

A bridge from the colonial era in Myanmar, which was once the tallest railway trestle in the world, has been destroyed amid fighting in the prolonged conflict.

Authorities in Cambodia have carried out several arrests this week, detaining almost 1,000 individuals as part of an ongoing crackdown on cybercrime operations throughout the country.

A TikTok astrologer in Myanmar has been arrested after predicting another earthquake and causing panic.

The video in our player captures the moment terrified locals ran for their lives after water poured onto the street from a high-rise pool

The head of the anti-trafficking agency reports that numerous Chinese criminal gangs were operating the centers.

Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos have become safe havens for criminal syndicates conducting online scam operations and deceiving thousands into forced labor.