"I swear to God I need help," said the man quietly on the other end of the line.
The Ethiopian, who calls himself Mike, said he is being held with 450 others in a building inside Myanmar, along the country's border with Thailand.
They are among the (...)
"I just wanted to own a house and pay off my debts — that's why I decided to sell my kidney," says Zeya, a farm worker in Myanmar.
Prices had soared after a military coup in 2021 triggered civil war. He could barely feed his young family and was (...)
More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centers in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.
The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian (...)
Plastic tubes meander from Rosella's nose to a nearby oxygen tank that's bigger than she is, as she flicks through a book of her drawings: a flower, a house, a chicken.
The 9-year-old needs non-stop medical attention for the bone condition she was (...)
We are all vulnerable to the rapid spread of phone scams – including, it seems, world leaders. Thailand's prime minister has revealed she got a call from an AI system, demanding money in the voice of another famous head of government.
Paetongtarn (...)
A small-time Chinese actor had been missing for two days in Thailand when his girlfriend decided to ask the internet for help.
"We have no choice but to borrow the power of the internet to amplify our voices," Wang Xing's girlfriend wrote on the (...)
Myanmar's army bombed a village under the control of the Arakan Army, killing about 40 people and injuring at least 20 others, officials of the ethnic minority group and a local charity said Thursday.
Hundreds of houses burned in a fire triggered by (...)
An alleged leader from Japan's Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash, according to the US Department of Justice.
During an (...)
Billionaire Elon Musk announced Saturday that Starlink has applied to launch its internet services in Pakistan but is awaiting government approval.
Musk responded to a post by Sanam Jamali, a Pakistani netizen, who praised the potential impact of (...)
Fear and uncertainty are spreading across many US college campuses ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration, with some schools advising international students to return early from winter break amid promises of another travel (...)
The once formidable Myanmar military is cracking from within – riddled with spies secretly working for the pro-democracy rebels, the BBC has found. The military only has full control of less than a quarter of Myanmar's territory, a BBC World Service (...)
The end, when it came for the BGP5 barracks, was loud and brutal. First, a crackly speaker calling out for their surrender; then, a thunderous barrage of artillery, rockets and rifle fire that tore chunks out of the buildings in which hundreds of (...)
South Koreans have been describing feelings of worry, shock and confusion after the country's president plunged the country into political chaos — declaring martial law and hours later revoking the move after a major outcry.
In a televised address (...)
Police in India say they have reached out for information to Elon Musk's Starlink after they allegedly found drug smugglers using its satellite internet device to navigate Indian waters and reach the country's shore.
Starlink claims to provide (...)
For a harrowing week in August, Ruchika Tandon, a 44-year-old neurologist at one of India's top hospitals, was ensnared in what felt like a high-stakes federal crime investigation.
Yet, it was an elaborate scam — a web of deceit spun by scammers who (...)
WASHINGTON — King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Supervisor General Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said that as many as 170 countries have benefited from the humanitarian and relief assistance, amounting to $133 billion, provided by (...)
Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing is on his first visit to China since he ousted the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.
The significant losses his regime has suffered in the civil war at the hands of poorly-armed (...)
As someone who served four Israeli prime ministers and was deputy head of the country's National Security Council, Eran Etzion's judgment was trusted at the highest levels of the state.
A longstanding critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he (...)
RIYADH — A Yemeni government delegation, led by Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, visited the headquarters of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) in Riyadh on Wednesday.
During the visit, the Yemeni prime minister was (...)
The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the military government said.
The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar last week, (...)
RIYADH — Al Nassr Saudi women's team started their Asian Champions League journey with a commanding 3-0 victory against Myawady from Myanmar, in a match held at Al Awwal Park in Riyadh.
The goals were scored by Tanzanian player Clara Luvanga and (...)
RIYADH — Asian women's football is gearing up for a new chapter with the launch of the preliminary rounds for the first-ever AFC Women's Champions League, marking the latest step in the Asian Football Confederation's efforts to develop women's (...)
Renewed fears of ethnic cleansing against the stateless Rohingya Muslim community are mounting after reports that hundreds of people, including women and children, were killed by drone strikes while fleeing violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine (...)
RIYADH — The General Supervisor of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, has confirmed that Saudi Arabia provided more than $130 billion in humanitarian and relief aid between 1996 and 2024, benefiting (...)
Thailand has expanded its visa-free entry scheme to 93 countries and territories as it seeks to revitalize its tourism industry.
Visitors can stay in the South-East Asian nation for up to 60 days under the new scheme that took effect on (...)
