China to launch a distinct activity in Mae Sot, which is located opposite the infamous Myawaddy  center of murder.
PUBLISHED: 24 Jan 2025 at 17: 58
Thailand and China will work up to stop the rapidly expanding improper call centers along the Thai-Bangladesh frontier with Myanmar and Cambodia, which are frequently run by undercover agents, and attempt to mislead people through phone and online frauds.
Thailand’s police announced on Friday that a synchronization center may be established at the Thai federal authorities hq in Bangkok, while Taiwanese authorities are planning a second operation in the Mae Sot area of Tak, across from Myawaddy in Myanmar, a major hub for the con call centers.
” This centre ( in Bangkok ) will work together ( with China ) to investigate and combat call centre gangs based in Myawaddy, Myanmar, and along the Cambodian border, which involve many Chinese and Thai nationals”, the Royal Thai Police said in a statement.
The cooperation center is scheduled to open in February, according to the statement, which was released following a Bangkok safety meeting between Thai and Chinese security officers.
Southeast Asia— particularly border areas between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia — has become a hub for telecoms and various online scam since the Covid-19 crisis, according to the United Nations, which says hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to work in con facilities.
In Thailand, increasing public pressure is being put in place to stop the scam factories where workers are drawn in from all over the world and are frequently treated viciously.
China, also, has become extremely concerned, particularly following the violence and cross-border recovery from Myanmar of Chinese professional Wang Xing.
At a gathering in the Chinese capital of Kunming on Tuesday, officials from China, Myanmar, and Thailand came together to discuss eradicating telecoms fraud centers in Myanmar.
A Thai defense group and Soe Win, the second-in-command of the Myanmar junta, met this week in Nay Pyi Taw to explore a crackdown on online scams and human trafficking, according to Myanmar state media.
The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar paper said this week that junta officials had sent up 55, 000 foreign immigrants, including about 53, 000 Chinese, from con materials to their home nations between October 2023 and January 2025.
Additionally, the report suggested that Myanmar’s neighboring nations supported fraud functions, a state that Thai Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai rejected on Thursday.
” This concern is not just about Thailand”, said Mr Phumtham. Myanmar and China also have to play a role in this.