The United States has sanctioned five individuals and three entities located in Myanmar and Thailand, alleging their involvement in "forced labour compounds that carry out fraudulent investment scams ...

BANGKOK (AP) — They walked out of the compound in Myanmar not knowing where they would go. Though they were aiming for the river that separated them from Thailand and freedom, they didn’t know if they ...

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar has entered a new phase of civil war marked by unprecedented territorial losses for the Myanmar military council and visible strains on manpower and institutional cohesion ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today imposed sanctions on the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), a Burmese armed group, and four of its senior ...

Across Southeast Asia, a multibillion-dollar fraud industry has emerged, staffed in part by victims of trafficking. In lawless regions of the Myanmar-Thai border, compounds run by Chinese criminal ...