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Fuel Demand Soars as Thailand Cuts Off Power to Myanmar Border Towns
Fuel demand is soaring in the Myanmar border towns of Myawaddy, Payathonzu, and Tachileik after the Thai government cut off their electricity and fuel supply to cripple online scam centers there.
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Myawaddy in chaos after Thailand cuts power to Myanmar scam towns
Households, hospitals and businesses in turmoil as electricity, fuel and internet supplies withdrawn to combat transnational ...
Thailand cuts power to Myanmar border areas home to scam compounds as Chinese pressure builds
Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center of a global, billion-dollar online scam industry.
Thailand cuts power to Myanmar border areas linked to scam centers
STORY: Thailand cut power supply, fuel and internet to some border areas with Myanmar on Wednesday.It's an attempt to choke ...
Thailand cuts power supplies to Myanmar border towns in effort to curb scam rings
Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry ...
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Rare £10,000 Tube map which is ‘unlike any other one out there’ revealed
A rare Tube map has come up for sale, revealing the forgotten London of the 1930s. The 162-year-old London Underground network continues to fascinate daily commuters, visitors and Tube lovers alike.
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Nay Maps’ biography: A look at the life of the actor and musician
Nay Maps is a South African actor born on 30th March 1989. He is the firstborn of three children born to the late Bishop Simeon Maphalala and his wife. Maps grew up alongside his two younger sisters ...
The Irrawaddy22d
Who Will Be Myanmar’s Kingmaker?
The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically changed since then. The coup makers’ State Administration Council (SAC) has been losing territory to various ethnic groups and resistance forces.
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Boy obsessed with London Underground map is walking every Tube line - worst so far was 'too short'
A boy studying his GCSEs who loves the London Underground map is taking on the challenge of walking the length of every single Tube line and when he finishes this quest he's got his eyes on London ...
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Chinese actor’s abduction to Myanmar sign of growing diversity of scams
The recent abduction of a Chinese TV actor to Myanmar and his subsequent release is shedding new light on the lengths to which human traffickers operating online scam centers in the war-torn ...
Eos23d
Another tailings landslide in Hpakant, Myanmar
Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...
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‘Scam City is growing’: how Myanmar’s cyber fraud hubs outfox efforts to shut them down
Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...