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Myanmar scam centers

Photo taken from Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 24, 2025, shows buildings in eastern Myanmar, an area where scam operation centers are believed to be located.

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Myanmar scam center raided

Photo taken from Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 24, 2025, shows buildings in eastern Myanmar, an area where scam centers are believed to be located.

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Myanmar scam center raided

Photo taken from Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 24, 2025, shows buildings in eastern Myanmar, an area where scam centers are believed to be located.

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Myanmar scam center raided

Photo taken from Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 23, 2025, shows buildings in eastern Myanmar, an area where scam centers are believed to be located.

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Victims Of Human Trafficking Handover - Thailand

This photo taken on Feb. 6, 2025 shows a scene during the handover of rescued foreign nationals on the Thai side of the Myanmar-Thailand border. Thai authorities have received 61 foreign nationals believed to be victims of human trafficking and scam operations in Myanmar, Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Thursday. The rescued individuals included 39 Chinese nationals, 13 Indians, five Indonesians and one each from Ethiopia, Pakistan, Malaysia and Kazakhstan, Phumtham said during his oversight of the handover at the Mae Sot border checkpoint in Thailand's Tak province. Photo by Information Team of the State Administration Council/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Victims Of Human Trafficking Handover - Thailand

Thai Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai (C) attends a press conference in Tak province, Thailand, Feb. 6, 2025. Thai authorities have received 61 foreign nationals believed to be victims of human trafficking and scam operations in Myanmar, Wechayachai said on Thursday. The rescued individuals included 39 Chinese nationals, 13 Indians, five Indonesians and one each from Ethiopia, Pakistan, Malaysia and Kazakhstan, Phumtham said during his oversight of the handover at the Mae Sot border checkpoint in Thailand's Tak province. Photo by Public Relations Department of Tak/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Thailand Cuts Power Supplies to Myanmar Border

This photo taken on February 5, 2025 shows an area along the Thai-Myanmar border seen from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand. Thailand suspended power supply to five areas along the border with Myanmar on Wednesday morning as part of its effort to combat illegal operations, Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said. (Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Thailand Cuts Power Supplies to Myanmar Border

This photo taken on February 5, 2025 shows an area along the Thai-Myanmar border seen from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand. Thailand suspended power supply to five areas along the border with Myanmar on Wednesday morning as part of its effort to combat illegal operations, Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said. (Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Thailand Cuts Power Supplies to Myanmar Border

This photo taken on February 5, 2025 shows an area along the Thai-Myanmar border seen from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand. Thailand suspended power supply to five areas along the border with Myanmar on Wednesday morning as part of its effort to combat illegal operations, Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said. (Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Thailand Cuts Power Supplies to Myanmar Border

This photo taken on February 4, 2025 shows an area along the Thai-Myanmar border seen from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand. Thailand suspended power supply to five areas along the border with Myanmar on Wednesday morning as part of its effort to combat illegal operations, Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said. (Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Thailand Cuts Power Supplies to Myanmar Border

This photo taken on February 5, 2025 shows an area along the Thai-Myanmar border seen from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand. Thailand suspended power supply to five areas along the border with Myanmar on Wednesday morning as part of its effort to combat illegal operations, Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said. (Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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89 People Still Missing After Deadly Disaster - Valencia

A person walks through Sot de Chera, on November 7, 2024, in Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published today the declaration of an area seriously affected by a Civil Protection emergency in the territory affected by the DANA in the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Aragon. This declaration is accompanied by a package of measures valued at 10,600 million euros aimed at mitigating the effects of the DANA. According to official figures, only in the province of Valencia, the area hardest hit by the cold drop, there are currently 199 dead and 93 missing. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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89 People Still Missing After Deadly Disaster - Valencia

Several military personnel in Sot de Chera, on November 7, 2024, in Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published today the declaration of an area seriously affected by a Civil Protection emergency in the territory affected by the DANA in the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Aragon. This declaration is accompanied by a package of measures valued at 10,600 million euros aimed at mitigating the effects of the DANA. According to official figures, only in the province of Valencia, the area hardest hit by the cold drop, there are currently 199 dead and 93 missing. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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89 People Still Missing After Deadly Disaster - Valencia

General view of Sot de Chera, on November 7, 2024, in Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published today the declaration of an area seriously affected by a Civil Protection emergency in the territory affected by the DANA in the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Aragon. This declaration is accompanied by a package of measures valued at 10,600 million euros aimed at mitigating the effects of the DANA. According to official figures, only in the province of Valencia, the area hardest hit by the cold drop, there are currently 199 dead and 93 missing. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mae La refugee camp in northwestern Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot, Thailand, is seen in July 2014. Some 120,000 refugees from Myanmar including ethnic minority Karen remain registered in Thailand even following the end of junta rule in Myanmar.

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Children at Umpiem Mai refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Children get together in a library of Umpiem Mai refugee camp near Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, in June 2014. Some 120,000 refugees from Myanmar including ethnic minority Karen remain registered in Thailand even following the end of junta rule in Myanmar.

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Myanmar turns border with Thailand into gateway for foreign tourists

YANGON, Myanmar - Photo taken in June 2013 shows Myanmar's border checkpoint with Thailand, connecting Myawady in eastern Myanmar with Mae Sot in northwestern Thailand. Starting 8 a.m. on Aug. 28, 2013, foreign nationals holding valid passports with valid entry visas issued by Myanmar will be allowed to enter and exit the country through the border checkpoints at Tachileik-Mae Sai, Myawady-Mae Sot, Kawthoung-Ranong and Htee Khee-Punaron, Myanmar immigration officials said Aug. 27.

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Suu Kyi at refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves as she boards an airplane after visiting Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on June 2, 2012. The camp houses about 50,000 ethnic Karen and other Myanmar refugees. Suu Kyi is in Thailand on her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years.

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Suu Kyi at refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi answers reporters' questions after visiting Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on June 2, 2012. The camp houses about 50,000 ethnic Karen and other Myanmar refugees. Suu Kyi is in Thailand on her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years.

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Myanmar refugees at Thai camp

MAE SOT, Thailand - An official from Japan's Ministry of Justice (R back) talks to refugees from Myanmar in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 9, 2011, ahead of their departure for Japan under the ''third country'' refugee resettlement program.

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Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Photo shows Camp Mera in northwestern Thailand for refugees from Myanmar on Feb. 8, 2011. A Japanese government mission plans to begin interviewing refugees who want to go to Japan from the next day.

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Freed journalist Yamaji in interview

MAE SOT, Thailand - Japanese journalist Toru Yamaji speaks in an interview holding a pen-shaped digital camera in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Nov. 10, 2010 after he was released from detention by the Myanmar authorities. Yamaji, president of Tokyo-based video news provider APF News Inc., said he has no regrets over his decision to enter the military-ruled country to cover its general elections.

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People from Myanmar aboard a boat cross a river to return to their country from Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People who fled from Myanmar stay in an ad hoc camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People who fled from Myanmar stay in an ad hoc camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People from Myanmar sit in a boat in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010, as they return to their country across a river. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees arrive at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program.

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MERA, Thailand - A Myanmar family leaves a refugee camp in Mera, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, for a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot ahead of their departure for Japan. The family was in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from the camp under a pilot program.

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees arrive at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program.

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees rest at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program.

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Myanmar ethnic Karen rebel leader Bo Mya dies

BANGKOK, Thailand - Gen. Bo Mya (file photo), former leader of Myanmar's ethnic Karen insurgency, died Dec. 24 in a privately run hospital in the Thai border town of Mae Sot from complications of several ailments, including diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems, Karen and hospital sources said.

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Myanmar's KNU leader interviewed

MAE SOT, Thailand - Bo Mya, leader of the Karen National Union (KNU), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at a hideout in Myanmar's Karen State on Nov. 18. The 73-year-old KNU leader said the KNU has changed its strategy from direct confrontation to guerrilla warfare since losing its stronghold near the Thai border in 1994.

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Thai-Myanmar border being developed as special economic zone

A Thai border checkpoint at the border with Myanmar in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, is seen on Aug. 29, 2015. While the border region is rapidly being developed into a special economic zone by the two governments, it also faces issues such as residents' refusal to leave land on the Thai side and security concerns on the Myanmar side. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ceremony to mark start of construction of 2nd Thai-Myanmar bridge

Thai and Myanmar dignitaries attend a ceremony in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Aug. 30, 2015, to mark the start of the construction of the second Thai-Myanmar friendship bridge linking Mae Sot and Myawaddy in eastern Myanmar. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Construction begins on 2nd bridge linking Thailand and Myanmar

Myanmar Vice President U Nyan Tun (L) and Thai Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak shake hands during a groundbreaking ceremony for the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Aug. 30, 2015. The bridge linking the Myanmar border town of Myawaddy and Mae Sot will play a key role in the East-West Economic Corridor traversing continental Southeast Asia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Checkpoint in Myawaddy, Myanmar's border town with Thailand

Photo taken on Aug. 29, 2015, shows a checkpoint in the border town of Myawaddy in eastern Myanmar which leads to Thailand's northwestern district of Mae Sot. Both countries have been developing the area as a free trade zone, the first such bloc in the border area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Myanmar ethnic Karen rebel leader Bo Mya dies

BANGKOK, Thailand - Gen. Bo Mya (file photo), former leader of Myanmar's ethnic Karen insurgency, died Dec. 24 in a privately run hospital in the Thai border town of Mae Sot from complications of several ailments, including diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems, Karen and hospital sources said. (Kyodo)

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People who fled from Myanmar stay in an ad hoc camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees arrive at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees rest at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees arrive at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar refugees at Thai camp

MAE SOT, Thailand - An official from Japan's Ministry of Justice (R back) talks to refugees from Myanmar in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 9, 2011, ahead of their departure for Japan under the ''third country'' refugee resettlement program. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Photo shows Camp Mera in northwestern Thailand for refugees from Myanmar on Feb. 8, 2011. A Japanese government mission plans to begin interviewing refugees who want to go to Japan from the next day. (Kyodo)

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Children at Umpiem Mai refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Children get together in a library of Umpiem Mai refugee camp near Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, in June 2014. Some 120,000 refugees from Myanmar including ethnic minority Karen remain registered in Thailand even following the end of junta rule in Myanmar. (Kyodo)

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Freed journalist Yamaji in interview

MAE SOT, Thailand - Japanese journalist Toru Yamaji speaks in an interview holding a pen-shaped digital camera in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Nov. 10, 2010 after he was released from detention by the Myanmar authorities. Yamaji, president of Tokyo-based video news provider APF News Inc., said he has no regrets over his decision to enter the military-ruled country to cover its general elections. (Kyodo)

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People who fled from Myanmar stay in an ad hoc camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections. (Kyodo)

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People from Myanmar aboard a boat cross a river to return to their country from Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections. (Kyodo)

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People from Myanmar sit in a boat in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010, as they return to their country across a river. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections. (Kyodo)

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Myanmar's KNU leader interviewed

MAE SOT, Thailand - Bo Mya, leader of the Karen National Union (KNU), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at a hideout in Myanmar's Karen State on Nov. 18. The 73-year-old KNU leader said the KNU has changed its strategy from direct confrontation to guerrilla warfare since losing its stronghold near the Thai border in 1994.