Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams
It is accused of being a city built on scams, home to a lucrative yet deadly nexus of fraud, money-laundering and human ...
Yangon, an anxious, frenetic city where 'everything looks normal, but is abnormal'
Le Monde managed to visit Myanmar's largest city despite the war. The city has lost none of its buzz, our journalist reports.
Myanmar’s war is forcing some doctors and nurses into prostitution
Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, and the country’s economy, already hammered by the pandemic, started to buckle.
Exclusive: Inside the makeshift hospitals treating Myanmar’s rebel army
The Telegraph crossed into Myanmar to shadow doctors who have joined the revolution and are risking everything for their ...
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Thailand Sets Six-Month Timeline for Myanmar Border Power Cut, Begins Review
The Thai government has set a six-month timeframe for its power cut measure along the Thai-Myanmar border, part of its ...
Call-centre gangs release more than 100 employees back to Thailand
BANGKOK: The utilities cutoff on the Myanmar border was proved effective as call-centre gangs released more than 100 employees back to Thailand on Sunday (Feb 9), according to a source in Tachilek, a ...
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Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams
Shwe Kokko has been left marooned in post-coup, war-wracked Myanmar, unable to bring in the flow of investment and visitors it needs to keep going. Yatai is trying to fix the city's sinister image ...
Third attempt to auction off the home of Myanmar's ousted Aung San Suu Kyi fails to draw any bidders
A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been unsuccessful ...