In an interview with The Irrawaddy's Ei Kay Kyaw, Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd says the junta’s new law allowing China to protect its local interests using security firms risks making Myanmar a ‘client state’.

A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation.

China will fly home about 200 of its nationals found in scam-running compounds on the Thai-Myanmar border, a Thai security official said on Tuesday, as part of a multinational effort to crack down on illegal online operations run from the region.

Nong, who visited Myanmar on Nov. 3-5, said China hoped Myanmar would restore stability, and it supported all parties to properly handle differences and achieve reconciliation through dialogue as ...

Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar are set to return home Friday as the repatriation effort for such workers strains regional resources.

Hundreds of foreign nationals pulled out of scam compounds in Myanmar during a crackdown on centres run by criminal gangs have little food, scant healthcare and filthy toilets in the remote militia camp they have been taken to,

Bertil Lintner looks at the often devious ways in which China cemented the pauk-phaw or kinship relationship to become the dominant foreign power in Myanmar, sidelining all others.

Thailand, China and Myanmar have coordinated efforts over the past month to shut down the scam centers that bilked victims around the world out of billions of dollars through false romantic ploys ...

China has deployed a powerful radar system near the Myanmar border, capable of tracking India's missile launches and monitoring vast areas of the Indian Ocean, raising security concerns for New Delhi.

Last week, some 260 people from 20 nations, including many from Africa, crossed from Myanmar into Thailand after they were reportedly rescued from scam centers. On a visit to China in early ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar arrived in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, late Friday, part of a massive repatriation movement that is straining regional resources.