Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams
It is accused of being a city built on scams, home to a lucrative yet deadly nexus of fraud, money-laundering and human ...
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Yangon, an anxious, frenetic city where 'everything looks normal, but is abnormal'
JIM AUGE The bar street in Yangon's Chinatown, Myanmar, January 22, 2025. LE MONDE Today, raids still take place, but signs of the military's presence in the city are discreet. Soldiers remain ...
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Myanmar says rebel attacks, gas shortages worsen power crisis
Output down to about half of typical daily figure of 4,000 MW Rebel attacks on transmission lines cripple capacity, junta says Power cuts worsen in commercial centre of Yangon Junta has ruled ...
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Seeking light in dark times four years after Myanmar coup
Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.
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Myanmar marks beginning of year of the Snake in Yangon
People in Myanmar marked the beginning of the Year of the Snake on Wednesday as they celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year. The Lunar New Year, also called 'Spring Festival', falls on Jan. 29, 2025 ...
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‘Scam city is growing’: how Myanmar’s cyber fraud hubs outfox efforts to shut them down
Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...