Myanmars Military Junta loses Control of Western Border

14. December 2024

Jonathan Head and Burmese BBC describe, how Myanmars military junta lost the control of the border with Bangladesh. The insurgent Arakan Army took the Border Guard Police compound near Maungdaw and now controls the 270km dividing Myanmar from Bangladesh. Only the Rakhine State capital Sittwe is still in military hands. The Arakan Army is likely to be the first insurgent group to take complete control of a state in Myanmar.

More than 300 Chinese nationals handed to China by Wa State after Crackdown on Cyber Scam

August 16
Wa State raided scam compound in largest operation since its crackdown on cyberfraud began last year. 308 Chinese nationals and seized equipment handed over to Chinese police on Yunnan border on 17 Aug.

MYANMAR/CHINA: 16 Aug, Wa State raided scam compound in largest operation since its crackdown on cyberfraud began last year. 308 Chinese nationals and seized equipment handed over to Chinese police on Yunnan border on 17 Aug. https://t.co/UTPpjs202f pic.twitter.com/Eg3lT9lvLr

— CyberScamMonitor (@CyberScamWatch) August 19, 2024

Chinese Suspects in Scam in Kokang handed to China by Wa State

August 21
Wa State arrests 9 Chinese suspects allegedly involved in the Crouching Tiger Villa (卧虎山庄) scam compound in Kokang, where a massacre of workers allegedly happened in 2023. Suspects handed to China.

MYANMAR/CHINA: Wa State arrests 9 Chinese suspects allegedly involved in the Crouching Tiger Villa (卧虎山庄) scam compound in Kokang, where a massacre of workers allegedly happened in 2023. Suspects handed to China. https://t.co/TFlEzbauCZ pic.twitter.com/peR4R9Q4nP

— CyberScamMonitor (@CyberScamWatch) August 21, 2024

What a South African Victim reports about the Cyber-Scamming-Industry in Myanmar

August 27:
Cyber scam operations in Myawaddy along the Thailand-Myanmar border are not just a threat to Southeast Asians, but a global threat. @EmilyFishbein11 talks to South African victims trafficked into the cyber-scamming industry. What they told her.

Cyber scam operations in Myawaddy along the Thailand-Myanmar border are not just a threat to Southeast Asians, but a global threat. @EmilyFishbein11 talks to South African victims trafficked into the cyber-scamming industry https://t.co/cLDGYxAV9F

— Justice For Myanmar (@JusticeMyanmar) August 27, 2024

Chinas Public Security says over 50'000 Chinese Fraud Suspects arrested in Northern Myanmar

August 28:
Ministry of Public Security states during press conference that over 50,000 Chinese fraud suspects have been arrested in northern Myanmar and repatriated, China continues to increase law enforcement cooperation and sustain crackdown. Read more.

MYANMAR/CHINA: 🇨🇳 Ministry of Public Security states during press conference that over 50,000 Chinese fraud suspects have been arrested in northern Myanmar and repatriated, China continues to increase law enforcement cooperation & sustain crackdown. https://t.co/GMJPwOZQKU pic.twitter.com/anV5IMt4u9

— CyberScamMonitor (@CyberScamWatch) August 28, 2024

After Chinese Pressure Chinese Cyber Scam Syndicate from Myawaddy relocates to Three Pagodas Pass

Crackdown on cyber scam operations in Myawaddy Township and northern Myanmar results in relocation, with Kayin BGF and DKBA helping Chinese criminal syndicates set up shop farther south in Payathonesu near Three Pagodas Pass, reports Frontier Myanmar.

MYANMAR: Crackdown on cyber scam operations in Myawaddy Township & northern Myanmar results in relocation, with Kayin BGF and DKBA helping Chinese criminal syndicates set up shop farther south in Three Pagodas Pass, reports @FrontierMM. 1/4 https://t.co/pohMNah3j3

— CyberScamMonitor (@CyberScamWatch) August 30, 2024

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The End of Chinese Godfathers in Laukkaing in Shan State

23. November 2023

Ming Zhenzhen and Ming Guoping in handcuffs, hold by Chinese police. Picture by Chinese Public Ministry

Jonathan Head of BBC describes, how online scam operations in the Wild West boom town Laukkiang in Shan State, near the border with China, were protected by Myanmars Military Junta and then terminated by rebel armys called Brotherhood Alliance and Chinese Police. Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen are son and granddaughter of one of the powerful warlords who have run the town of Laukkaing for the past 14 years. The warlord himself - Ming Xuechang - died, Myanmars military said, he had taken his own life after being captured. Ming Xuechang was a henchman of Bai Suocheng, who heads one of the godfather families running criminal businesses in Laukkaing.


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