Grant Peck

Alleged scam centre workers and victims sit on the ground during a crackdown operation by the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) on illicit activity at the KK Park complex in Myanmar’s eastern Myawaddy township on February 26, 2025. Hundreds of foreigners are being sent home from scam compounds in Myanmar that are run by criminal gangs, with many workers saying they were trafficked and forced to swindle people around the world in protracted internet scams. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Asian scam operations are hauling in $40 billion every year from bogus romance schemes and investment pitches. Now they’re spreading around the world

By The Associated Press and Grant Peck

People watch as rescuers search for survivors trapped in the collapsed Sky Villa Condominium building in Mandalay on March 29, 2025, a day after an earthquake struck central Myanmar. Rescuers pulled a woman alive from the wreckage of a collapsed apartment building in Mandalay on March 29, AFP journalists saw, 30 hours after a devastating quake hit Myanmar. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Myanmar quake death toll rises to 1,644 as resistance movement announces partial ceasefire

By Grant Peck, Jintamas Saksornchai, and others

Peter Coker Jr.

The man wanted for the $100 million New Jersey deli fraud is in a Bangkok jail after being arrested on an island resort in Thailand

By Tassanee Vejpongsa, Grant Peck, and others