A Thai soldier sits in front of the blockage of a road leading to the Thailand-Myanmar border in Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand, Dec. 19, 2021. Photo by Reuters ...

Mae Sot, he says, is the next ground ... D.C., with operations in 60 countries, for about two decades. He is a former country director in Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. Authors.

Tai Chang and Jiaoke, notorious scam centres in Myanmar. The names of three other compounds are yet unknown.

MAE SOT, Thailand — Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world, squat in rows, ... Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.

Labor sources in Mae Sat, a border town about 490km northwest of Bangkok, said Chinese, Myanmar, and Taiwan business people moved those factories, big and small, from Myanmar to Mae Sot after the 2021 ...

MAE SOT, Thailand (CNN) -- Nine refugee camps stretch along western Thailand's border with Myanmar, but Mae La, with a population of 43,000, is by far the largest. "I came to the camp 10 years ago ...

Mae Sot, a town on the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak province, is notorious as a hub for cross-border human trafficking and transnational organised crime run by Chinese mafia syndicates. Despite this ...

MAE SOT, Thailand — A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those helping them ...

For dozens of women who fled Myanmar and settled in Thailand, soccer has become a refuge from both the troubles of daily life and conservative cultural norms. By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from Mae Sot ...