The border checkpoint between Mae Sot, Thailand and Myawaddy, Myanmar, December 28, 2016. Thailand’s resolve to crack down on human traffickers and scam compounds operating along its borders in Myanmar,

Hundreds of Indians trapped in Myanmar's Myawaddy region were lured by fake job offers and forced into cybercrime; a crackdown by Thailand, Myanmar, and China aims to dismantle these scam hubs

Starved of outside support, resistance groups have been forced to adopt low-cost solutions to battlefield challenges.

China will fly home about 200 of its nationals found in scam-running compounds on the Thai-Myanmar border, a Thai security official said on Tuesday, as part of a multinational effort to crack down on illegal online operations run from the region.

MYAWADDY: Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.

YANGON: Around 168 foreign nationals who illegally entered Myawaddy-Shwe Kokko and KK Park ... to identify those who illegally entered Myanmar through border routes via neighbouring countries ...

Thai officials told reporters on Thursday the rescued workers were being taken in batches of 50 across a bridge from Myanmar’s Myawaddy to Thailand’s Mae Sot, where they were processed — including with biometric scans — and sent on by bus to Mae ...