The crackdown at Shwe Kokko marks an extension of the junta’s anti-scam campaign, but there are reasons to be skeptical. Myanmar’s military government says that it has raided a second major online ...

Last week, a Reuters report turned a spotlight on the alleged role of Thai officials in facilitating the trafficking of foreign workers to scam centers in eastern Myanmar. The Karen National Army and ...

The military and the pro-government BGF militia raided the Shwe Kokko complex. According to local sources, however, the BGF moved out its bosses before the raid, and thousands of workers fled after ...

YANGON: Illegal structures in KK Park area continue to be demolished, and a total of 2,042 foreign nationals have been arrested as of November 29 in the Shwe Kokko area. In the fight against online ...

FILE PHOTO: Members of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) carry out an inspection at a work place during a crackdown operation on illicit activity linked to scam centres in Shwe Kokko in Myanmar's ...

For a short stint of about two months, Ko Wai Aung, 30, worked as a “tycoon” — a slang term used for employees in notorious online scam centers in Shwe Kokko, a town in Myawaddy Township in Kayin ...