Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

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.

(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) Thai soldiers provide security for the transfer of Indonesia nationals who had worked at scam centers in eastern Myanmar, on their arrival at Thailand's Mae Sot ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after they were rescued from Myanmar, Thailand's army ...

Educated youth from Africa are a significant presence in the cybercrime sweatshops along the Thailand-Myanmar border.

(AP Photo/Chiravuth Rungjamratratsami) By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI, Associated Pess BANGKOK — Efforts to shut down online scam centers in ... along its border in Myanmar’s northern Shan state.

In this photo released by Royal Thai Army, more than 250 people from 20 nations who were reportedly rescued from alleged scam centers in Myanmar, as they crossed into Thailand's Tak province on ...

Thai soldiers provide security for the transfer of Indonesia nationals who had worked at scam centers in eastern Myanmar ... 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) 33,580 people played the daily Crossword ...

In this photo released by Royal Thai Army, more than 250 people from 20 nations who were reportedly rescued from alleged scam centers in Myanmar, as they crossed into Thailand's Tak province on ...

Thai soldiers provide security for the transfer of Indonesia nationals who had worked at scam centers in eastern Myanmar ... 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) 33,580 people played the daily Crossword ...

In this photo released by Royal Thai Army, more than 250 people from 20 nations who were reportedly rescued from alleged scam centers in Myanmar, as they crossed into Thailand's Tak province on ...