Thai soldiers seized six million methamphetamine pills and 141 pounds (64 kilogrammes) of crystal meth in a deadly clash with smugglers near the Thai-Myanmar border. The soldiers were on patrol when ...

The Myanmar junta continues to use imprisonment not as a tool of justice, but as an instrument of repression, while ASEAN ...

Amid celebrations on World Refugee Day in Asia, refugees in the region's garment sector face sustained challenges.

Thailand is facing one of its most serious environmental crises as toxic pollution from rare earth mining in Myanmar’s Shan State contaminates the Kok and Sai rivers. Arsenic levels far exceed safety ...

Hafsar Tameesuddin was from a small village nestled between Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin states. In an exclusive interview with ...

Thailand's National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) announced a crackdown on call center scams.

“The situation in the Mae Sot zone is both notorious and essentially a case of widespread forced labor and illegality in plain sight.” Labor sources in Mae Sat, a border town about 490km northwest of ...

From drugs to trafficked workers, the nondescript town of Mae Sot on the Myanmar-Thai border, has long been a hub of dubious trade. But now something remarkable is happening.

Thai soldiers provide security for Indonesian nationals being sent home after being forced to work at scam centers in eastern Myanmar in Mae Sot, Thailand on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.

The Burmese junta deported 1,439 Chinese workers amid a call centre crackdown in Myanmar. Myanmar authorities repatriated the Chinese nationals believed to have been working at scam hubs along the ...