1 day ago · Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center of a global, billion-dollar online scam industry.

23 hours ago · BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry demanding government action to tackle the problem.. Parts of Myanmar bordering Thailand, including Myawaddy and Tachilek, are known as havens for criminal syndicates who have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere into helping ...

Myanmar–Thailand relations refers to the current and historical relations between Myanmar (also known as Burma) and Thailand. Myanmar has an embassy in Bangkok , while Thailand has an embassy in Yangon .

19 hours ago · In 2023, power supplies from Thailand to Shwe Kokko and Lay Kay Kaw in Myawaddy township in Myanmar’s Kayin state were briefly cut after a contract with the Myanmar government expired. However ...

1 day ago · Thailand has cut electricity, internet and fuel supplies to five border areas in Myanmar, a senior Thai minister said on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian nation steps up efforts to choke scam ...

23 hours ago · Thailand today suspended electricity, internet services, and fuel supplies to three regions of neighboring Myanmar in an effort to combat the online scamming centers that have been established there.

1 day ago · FILE - A checkpoint near the 1st Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge is pictured in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, April 12, 2024. Thailand will suspend electricity supply to some border areas ...

1 day ago · Thailand cuts power supply to Myanmar in blow to scam centers. BY Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Bloomberg. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, will ask for Chinese president Xi ...

Apr 12, 2024 · About 200 soldiers abandoned their base in the southeastern town of Myawaddy and have been pushed to the No 2. Friendship Bridge linking Myanmar to Thailand following an attack Wednesday night...

Feb 8, 2024 · MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand expects to open up a humanitarian corridor in about a month to deliver aid to suffering civilians in war-torn Myanmar, Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said Thursday after inspecting the planned staging area in the northern Thai province of Tak.