Karen warlord vows to end all call centers in Myawaddy this month
Leader of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), Saw Chit Thu, vowed today to stamp out all Chinese-run scam call centres in Myanmar’s Myawaddy border township within this month.
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Leader of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), Saw Chit Thu, vowed today to stamp out all Chinese-run scam call centres in Myanmar’s Myawaddy border township within this month.
The House of Representatives is scheduled to consider a police request this Thursday, for the arrest of Progressive Thai party MP Chaiyamparwaan Manpianjit on a rape charge.
Authorities have decided to shift Thailand-Myanmar border trade in western Kanchanaburi province to the Ban Pu Nam Ron permanent checkpoint, replacing the Three Pagodas border pass, which connects to Payathonsu town in Myanmar’s Karen State.
Chinese Assistant Minister for Public Safety Liu Zhongyi is scheduled to meet the leader of the Karen Border Force (BGF), Saw Chit Thu, in Myawaddy township today, to discuss cooperation on the suppression of scam call centres in Myanmar border towns and the rescue of victims of human trafficking.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is visiting the southern provinces of Phatthalung and Songkhla today and tomorrow and is scheduled to hold a mobile cabinet meeting tomorrow at Prince of Songkhla University in Hat Yai district.
Thailand's economy grew less than expected last year, official data showed Monday, while the outlook for 2025 is beset by fears about US President Donald Trump's tough trade policy.
Police at Chokchai police station in Bangkok are seeking an arrest warrant from the court for a Chinese national on a charge of manslaughter over the death of a female escort.
Bangkok MP Chaiyamparwaan Manpianjit is embroiled in another sex scandal, accused by a Taiwanese tourist of raping her at a Chiang Mai hotel.
China’s Assistant Minister for Public Security, Liu Zhongyi, and his delegation are in Myawaddy township of Myanmar this afternoon, for talks with the country’s interior ministry about the repatriation via Thailand of about 500 Chinese nationals working in scam call centres.
The opposition People’s party will submit a motion to opposition whips today, seeking a no-confidence debate against individual ministers, with the expectation that the motion will be forwarded to the House Speaker by February 27th.
The local-level Thai Myanmar border committee has tentatively agreed that 500 trafficked foreigners, of the about 2,000 who have expressed their wishes to return to their home countries, will be sent into Thailand, starting on Monday.
Forest fires are still raging today in Tap Lan National Park in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, but park officials have managed to prevent them from spreading.
Thailand has deported 10 Chinese nationals linked to the high-profile alleged kidnapping of an actor who was rescued from a cyber-fraud centre in Myanmar, Thai police told AFP on Saturday.
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Deputy Interior Minister Sabeeda Thaised sustained minor head injuries when the steel backdrop of a stage collapsed as she was presiding over the opening of a traditional local ceremony in Loeng Nok Tha district of Yasothon province yesterday.
A draft law designed to protect Thailand’s indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities from decades of marginalisation is at risk after a key provision was removed during its second reading in Parliament.