Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams
It is accused of being a city built on scams, home to a lucrative yet deadly nexus of fraud, money-laundering and human ...
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How Burma became the world capital of crime
The civil war ravaging the Asian country hides that it is the epicenter of heroin production, synthetic drug trafficking, and ...
Power cut to site of global, billion-dollar scam industry. But will it halt the swindling?
Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center ...
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American-Chinese tourist arrested for launching fireworks throughout the night on Chinese New Year
An American-Chinese tourist was arrested for launching fireworks throughout the night for Chinese New Year in Thailand. Wayne Kwon, 67, and his family rattled their neighbours when they set off loud ...
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Lives transformed by war: Inside the struggle to end military rule in Myanmar
A visit to resistance-held Karen State reveals the impact of four years of war, and the determination of ordinary citizens to ...
Clip of Thai PM speech on scam centres manipulated to add fake subtitles
Reports of high-profile kidnappings on the Thai-Myanmar border have frightened Chinese tourists who were Thailand's top ...
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Foreign attachés tour Thai army headquarters
Foreign military attachés were taken on a tour of the 2nd Army Region headquarters in Nakhon Ratchasima on Thursday, according to the Royal Thai Army’s (RTA) Directorate of Intelligence (DoI).
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Wooing Chinese tourists, Thai leader says she has 'Chinese blood in her'
"Thai people always come to China and feel like home, so I hope that Chinese people can come to Thailand and feel like home as well," Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra told state-run ...