To combat a rising transnational scourge, the region's governments can augment non-governmental efforts to detect, rescue and repatriate victims of increasingly sophisticated overseas 'job' scam ...

Lucknow: Deported recently from Myanmar, 21 youths from Uttar Pradesh gave an account of how they were tricked into executing ...

Visakhapatnam: The Vizag police apprehended Choppa Uma Mahesh from Anakapalle for his involvement in multiple cybercrimes ...

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Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra visited China and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平). The two leaders discussed several issues, including cross-border telecom fraud. Xi expressed ...

India has repatriated 549 citizens who were victims of fake job offers and forced into cybercrime activities in Myanmar. The ...

The Indian Embassy in Thailand, in coordination with its counterpart in Yangon, Myanmar, has repatriated 549 Indians after ...

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A South African woman trapped in a compound in Myanmar, close to the Thai border, has described her ordeal as a living nightmare, revealing the horrific conditions she and other South Africans are ...

Chinese cybercrime has evolved into an industrialised operation running from Southeast Asian nations, scamming people around ...

Tourist police in Pattaya have arrested 25 foreign nationals working illegally at pool villa construction sites.