HONG KONG: Thai authorities rescued a Hong Kong woman from a Chinese call centre gang operating on the Myanmar side of the border near Tak, on Feb 2. The rescue of the 31-year-old Hong Kong passport holder was carried out through cooperation between the Royal Thai Army and the Royal Thai Police, following an earlier alert...
BEIJING/BANGKOK/YANGON (Reuters): The abduction and cross-border rescue had all the makings of the kind of action script struggling Chinese actor Wang Xing had hoped to land - only not as a reality star. Wang, 31, flew to Bangkok earlier this month after getting an unsolicited offer to join a film that was shooting in Thailand. There was...
LANGKAWI: The ongoing Myanmar crisis and tensions in the South China Sea will feature in the discussions at the Asean Foreign Ministers' Retreat here during the weekend, says Malaysian Foreign Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Seri Amran Mohamed Zin. He also said that other issues to be touched on at the meeting include cross-border online scams and human...
Wang Xing’s abduction and subsequent rescue from a scam compound in Myanmar has left many shocked, but it looks like the search for victims is far from over. The recent case of 31-year-old Chinese actor Wang Xing’s abduction at the Thailand-Myanmar border has renewed discussion about human trafficking. The actor, who was lured to Thailand under the false promise...
Wang Xing, 31, was terrified by the thought that he would have to scam his fellow countrymen if he did not get rescued. Chinese actor Wang Xing, 31, was rescued on Tuesday (Jan 7), four days after he was reported to have gone missing near the Myanmar-Thailand border. Thai authorities found him in Myawaddy, a town in Myanmar where many...
Wang Xing was found with his head shaved and skin bruised. And even though he was abducted in Bangkok, says he will definitely visit Thailand again. Wang Xing, a 31-year-old Chinese actor who went missing near the Myanmar-Thailand border on January 3 after travelling to Bangkok for work has been found. On Tuesday (Jan 7), Thai media reported that...
KUALA LUMPUR: Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, may be hiding in Myanmar under the protection of its military generals, says lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah. According to Sinar Daily, the defence attorney of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said rumours of Jho Low's whereabouts initially pointed to Dubai,...
KUALA LUMPUR: Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, may be hiding in Myanmar under the protection of its military generals, says lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah. According to Sinar Daily, the defence attorney of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said rumours of Jho Low's whereabouts initially pointed to Dubai,...
KUNMING: Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra met Myanmar's junta chief on the sidelines of a regional summit in China on Thursday (Nov 7), in a rare overseas trip by a general grappling with a civil war at home. Myanmar's ruling military has been battling against a rebellion that erupted after it seized power in a 2021...
YANGON: Myanmar authorities have arrested an ex-military officer and son-in-law of a former junta chief for Facebook posts that threatened "peace and stability," the junta said. The junta has cracked down on dissent since ending a decade-long experiment in democracy in 2021, with systematic censorship and surveillance of online speech. Nay Soe Maung, whose father-in-law Than Shwe...
