Thailand, Cambodia

Thai govt worries about influx of freed scam centre foreigners
Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has expressed concern about a possible flood of foreigners released from shuttered scam centres in Myawaddy.
Thai and Cambodian police free 215 foreigners in scam center raid
Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked by criminal gangs and forced to work in scam centers and illegal online operations across Southeast Asia.
Poipet scam compound raids in Cambodia net 230 foreigners, more rescued; scammers caught mostly from China and Thailand
Cambodian authorities raided two locations in Poipet town and discovered a total of 230 foreigners, (68 of them women), conducting illegal online scamming operations.
Cambodia police raid illegal online scam centers
Cambodian police said Monday they have raided two locations in a city on the Thai border in a crackdown on online scam centres and detained more than 200 foreigners.
Thai, Cambodian police free 215 foreigners in scam centre raid
Thai and Cambodian police raided a building in a border town and freed 215 foreigners, a senior Thai official said on Sunday, in an expansion of a regional crackdown against cyber scam centres.
Thousands in Limbo on Thai-Myanmar Border After Scam Centre Crackdown
Ethiopian citizens, who were trafficked into working at scam centres in Myanmar and were sent to Thailand on February 12 amid a mounting crackdown on scam centres operating along a porous border, wait for their embassies to pick them up at a shelter inside the 310th Military District (Fort Wachiraprakan),
215 foreigners rescued from Cambodian scam centre
Cambodian police have rescued 215 foreigners, 109 of them Thais, from a scam compound in Poipet city.On Saturday, Cambodian police raided a three-storey building in Banteay Meanchey province, opposite Sa Kaeo's Aranyaprathet district,
50 Pakistanis among 215 rescued in Thai-Cambodian raid on cyber scam centre
Thai and Cambodian authorities have rescued 215 foreign nationals in a major raid on a suspected cyber scam centre in the Cambodian border town of Poipet, a senior Thai official said on Sunday.The operation,
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Upcoming Thai-Cambodian football tournament will see celebrities, boxing stars take to field
Announced during a February 24 press conference, the event will feature a game between Khmer martial artists and Muay Thai ...
Scam calls hit record in Thailand before cyber fraud crackdown
Thailand saw the number of scam calls and text messages more than double to a record 168 million in 2024 from a year earlier, ...
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Thailand protests over Cambodian women singing at border temple
BANGKOK : Thailand has formally protested to Cambodia after a group of Cambodian women was filmed singing a nationalist song ...
‘Unusual’ creature with ‘reddish’ eyes found at cave in Thailand. It’s a new species
As night fell across eastern Thailand, a banded creature emerged from its hiding spot and used its “long” limbs to climb up a ...
Top US general in Asia-Pacific visits Cambodia to boost relations
The top U.S. Army officer for the Asia-Pacific region was in Cambodia in the latest visit by U.S. officials aimed at ...
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Hun Manet urges border row calm
Cambodia's leader, Hun Manet, warned Cambodian and Thai politicians yesterday against escalating tensions between the two ...
Former Thai Prime Minister Thanin Kraivichien, a hard-line anti-communist in the 1970s, dies at 97
Thanin Kraivichien, an anti-communist judge who became Thailand’s prime minister after a 1976 military coup but was ousted by ...
Cambodian SEZ ready for expansion as Cambodia/Thailand canal draws nearer
The Kratie Special Economic Zone (SEZ), located in Snoul district, is emerging as a key player in the country's economic ...