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A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to death 16 members of the Ming Family criminal syndicate from Kokang in Myanmar’s northern Shan State near the Chinese border, for multiple crimes including establishing scam centers and killing 14 Chinese nationa... [1]

AFP Myanmar’s junta said it has arrested two cyber scam ringleaders operating from a lawless northern town and wanted by China, and a third took his own life during the arrest. [2]

The online scam syndicates operating near the Chinese border in Shan State’s Kokang region were raking in more than 100 billion yuan (US$ 14 billion) annually and were run by four families affiliated with Myanmar’s military, the commander of an ethni... [3]

Myanmar’s regime on Thursday issued a warrant for Bai Yingcang, the son of former Kokang administrator Bai Xuoqian, for his alleged involvement in online scams near the Chinese border. [4]

TOKYO -- Beijing's political nerve center has been abuzz since last week with rumors of a bombshell whose implications could reach deep into the 2030s. [5]

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[1] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-09-30 · 100% match

China Sentences 16 Kokang Crime Syndicate Members to Death

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to death 16 members of the Ming Family criminal syndicate from Kokang in Myanmar’s northern Shan State near the Chinese border, for multiple crimes including establishing scam centers and killing 14 Chinese nationa

[2] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2023-11-18 · 100% match

Myanmar junta says arrested scam ringleaders wanted by China

AFP Myanmar’s junta said it has arrested two cyber scam ringleaders operating from a lawless northern town and wanted by China, and a third took his own life during the arrest.

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-01-05 · 100% match

Myanmar Military ‘Provided Protection For US$ 14 Billion a Year Scam Hub’ on China Border

The online scam syndicates operating near the Chinese border in Shan State’s Kokang region were raking in more than 100 billion yuan (US$ 14 billion) annually and were run by four families affiliated with Myanmar’s military, the commander of an ethni

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-11-16 · 81% match

Myanmar Regime Issues Warrant for Ex-Kokang Administrator’s Son for Online Scams

Myanmar’s regime on Thursday issued a warrant for Bai Yingcang, the son of former Kokang administrator Bai Xuoqian, for his alleged involvement in online scams near the Chinese border.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-04-25 · 42% match

Xi poses a riddle and reignites speculation about his successors

TOKYO -- Beijing's political nerve center has been abuzz since last week with rumors of a bombshell whose implications could reach deep into the 2030s.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-11-16 · 40% match

Myanmar Junta Places Army in Charge of Kokang as Resistance Eyes Laukkai

Former Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) lawmaker Myint Swe has been replaced as acting chief of Kokang Self-Administered Zone (SAZ) by Brigadier-General Tun Tun Myint of Northeastern Command as the junta braces for a resistance attack on

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-01-01 · 40% match

Spring Revolution Daily News for 1 January 2025

The National Unity Government (NUG) · On the first anniversary of the establishment of Chin Brotherhood on Monday, the Acting President of the NUG stated that the revolutionary forces had been fighting the military junta all across the country and th

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-11-01 · 37% match

Xi Jinping's awkward relationship with Deng Xiaoping

TOKYO -- For the first time in many years, Beijing's Tiananmen Square was covered with red and white Japanese flags.

[9] TH thepattayanews.com · 2026-03-09 · 35% match

Banglamung District Holds Monthly Meeting With District Chiefs and Heads

Banglamung, Chonburi – March 9th, 2026 – Anuwat Phiriyomorn, District Chief of Bang Lamung, presided over the monthly meeting of district government heads, sub-district chiefs (kamnan), and village heads (phu yai ban) at the People’s Hall in Banglamu

[10] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-03-27 · 34% match

Bangladesh’s Yunus heads to China for first state visit

AFP Bangladeshi leader Muhammad Yunus flew to Beijing on Wednesday for his first state visit as frosty relations with neighbouring India spur his caretaker administration to court new friends.

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