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Chinese businessman She Zhijiang (C) is escorted by Royal Thai Police out of the Suvarnabhumi Airport Police Station in Bangkok on November 12, 2025, before being extradited to China. [1]
Myanmar’s military junta recently conducted raids on online scam centers in a rebel-held region of eastern Myanmar, seizing Starlink satellite internet devices and occupying around 200 buildings, it said. [3]
Workers stand along a street after they walked out a suspected scam centre compound near the Amber Casino in Sihanoukville on January 15, 2026. [4]
Mizzima Special Correspondent Han Htoo Zaw For nearly a decade, powerful Chinese criminal syndicates have been running massive online money laundering and fraud operations along Myanmar’s borders with China, Laos, and Thailand. [5]
Two shell company executives were arrested today by Cybercrime Investigation Bureau (CIB) officers at a coffee shop on Charoen Nakhon Road in Klong Ton Sai district of Bangkok, for alleged involvement in laundering money linked to an online gambling ... [6]
Mizzima The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has vowed to aggressively pursue Chinese organised crime syndicates operating scam compounds across Southeast Asia, warning that “geographical borders will not protect criminals” who target America... [7]
Myanmar has never been safe for its own people—least of all when the military rules. Yet under the military, the country has always been a safe haven for criminals. From drug kingpins to warlords, the generals have sheltered them for decades. [8]
The Thai government will slash electricity supplies by 50 percent to areas in Myanmar that are suspected of being used by criminal syndicates to run their operations, Defense Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Monday. [9]
Chinese businessman She Zhijiang (C) is escorted by Royal Thai Police out of the Suvarnabhumi Airport Police Station in Bangkok on November 12, 2025, before being extradited to China.
Myanmar’s military junta recently conducted raids on online scam centers in a rebel-held region of eastern Myanmar, seizing Starlink satellite internet devices and occupying around 200 buildings, it said.
Workers stand along a street after they walked out a suspected scam centre compound near the Amber Casino in Sihanoukville on January 15, 2026.
Mizzima Special Correspondent Han Htoo Zaw For nearly a decade, powerful Chinese criminal syndicates have been running massive online money laundering and fraud operations along Myanmar’s borders with China, Laos, and Thailand.
Two shell company executives were arrested today by Cybercrime Investigation Bureau (CIB) officers at a coffee shop on Charoen Nakhon Road in Klong Ton Sai district of Bangkok, for alleged involvement in laundering money linked to an online gambling
Mizzima The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has vowed to aggressively pursue Chinese organised crime syndicates operating scam compounds across Southeast Asia, warning that “geographical borders will not protect criminals” who target America
Myanmar has never been safe for its own people—least of all when the military rules. Yet under the military, the country has always been a safe haven for criminals. From drug kingpins to warlords, the generals have sheltered them for decades.
The Thai government will slash electricity supplies by 50 percent to areas in Myanmar that are suspected of being used by criminal syndicates to run their operations, Defense Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Monday.
In the second of a two-part series on KK Park, a cyber-crime hub in Karen State’s Myawaddy on the border with Thailand, The Irrawaddy examines documentary evidence linking the leadership of the Karen National Union to the project, and looks at the Ch