Southeast Asia - especially border areas between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia - has become a hub for telecom and other online fraud since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the United ...

The United Nations says border towns in Thailand, Laos and Myanmar have become regional hubs for telecom and other online fraud, with hundreds of thousands trafficked to work in scam centres there.

The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically changed since then. The coup makers’ State Administration Council (SAC) has been losing territory to various ethnic groups and resistance forces.

A report in June by the United States Institute of Peace revealed that scam centers operating in Southeast Asia countries, including Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar have swindled billions of dollars.

Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...

A task force sent to Thailand to help rescue a dozen Hongkongers lured to Southeast Asian countries and forced into illegal work has received a positive response from Thai authorities in a meeting ...

Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide ...

VIENTIANE: Laos and Vietnam demonstrated an unwavering bond and a shared vision for the future as their Prime Ministers co-chaired the 47th meeting of the Laos-Vietnam Intergovernmental Committee ...

such as Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, and detained to engage in illegal work.

Crossing from Thailand into Laos is popular on the backpacker ... which also hurtles through China, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam. On the filthy, furious rapids bobs a thin flat-bottomed ...