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India nationals, believed to have worked at scam center in Myanmar, board a plane at Thailand's Mae Sot International Airport in Tak, before being sent back to India Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Sarot Meksophawannakul)
Asia

Inside the compounds of Asia’s $10 billion scam industry, where trafficked staff sleep at work and log 16-hour days texting ‘hello’ over and over

By Huizhong Wu and The Associated Press
November 7, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Abilene, Texas on Sept. 23, 2025. (Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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At long last, OpenAI has restructured into a for-profit company

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October 29, 2025
Myanmar rescuers save 63-year-old woman from rubble 91 hours after being buried but hope of finding more earthquake survivors fades after death toll passes 2,700
Environment

Myanmar rescuers save 63-year-old woman from rubble 91 hours after being buried but hope of finding more earthquake survivors fades after death toll passes 2,700

By David Rising and The Associated Press
April 2, 2025
Myanmar death toll passes 2,000 as tragic tales mount: 200 Buddhist monks in a collapsed monastery, 50 children in a crumbled preschool, 700 Muslims praying at mosques
Environment

Myanmar death toll passes 2,000 as tragic tales mount: 200 Buddhist monks in a collapsed monastery, 50 children in a crumbled preschool, 700 Muslims praying at mosques

By David Rising and The Associated Press
April 1, 2025
Microsoft’s AI-assisted damage assessment is playing a pivotal role in the aftermath of the Myanmar earthquake
Tech

Microsoft’s AI-assisted damage assessment is playing a pivotal role in the aftermath of the Myanmar earthquake

By The Associated Press and Matt O'Brien
March 31, 2025
Myanmar hospitals overwhelmed as deaths from cataclysmic earthquake surge past 1,700: ‘The scale of deaths and injuries is not yet fully understood’
Environment

Myanmar hospitals overwhelmed as deaths from cataclysmic earthquake surge past 1,700: ‘The scale of deaths and injuries is not yet fully understood’

By David Rising and The Associated Press
March 31, 2025
Myanmar quake death toll rises to 1,644 as resistance movement announces partial ceasefire
Politics

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

By Grant Peck, Jintamas Saksornchai and The Associated Press
March 29, 2025
Powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar, topples skyscraper in Bangkok
Environment

Powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Myanmar, topples skyscraper in Bangkok

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March 28, 2025
Thailand pushes to repatriate 1,500 Chinese workers freed from Myanmar scam centers each week
Finance

Thailand pushes to repatriate 1,500 Chinese workers freed from Myanmar scam centers each week

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March 6, 2025
Myanmar scam center workers plead to ‘escape this hell’ and go home: ‘Help me, help me, help me’
Lifestyle

Myanmar scam center workers plead to ‘escape this hell’ and go home: ‘Help me, help me, help me’

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February 27, 2025
Myanmar frees 1,000 scam center workers as crackdown widens
Finance

Myanmar frees 1,000 scam center workers as crackdown widens

By Khine Lin Kyaw and Bloomberg
February 17, 2025
Southeast Asia scammers stole up to $37 billion in 2023, UN says
Tech

Southeast Asia scammers stole up to $37 billion in 2023, UN says

By Philip J. Heijmans and Bloomberg
October 7, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg
Tech

Amnesty report on Meta finds Facebook algorithm ‘proactively amplified and promoted’ anti-Rohingya hate speech in Myanmar

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
September 29, 2022
Poverty in Myanmar will double by 2022, following the military coup and COVID-19
International

Poverty in Myanmar will double by 2022, following the military coup and COVID-19

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July 26, 2021
ASEAN states must act to help Myanmar. This is where they should start
Commentary

ASEAN states must act to help Myanmar. This is where they should start

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March 25, 2021

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