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A man tends his market stall on a sandbar in the middle of the Moei River on the Thai- Myanmar border between Mae Sot and Myawaddy, Myanmar.

Sex drops and whiskey packets: The bizarre market built around a barbed wire fence

An international border separates the vendors from customers, while behind it people live in the middle of a river, knowing their houses will soon be washed away.

  • Zach Hope

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No Man's Land is an ungoverned strip of riverbank between Thailand and Myanmar, where a unique market thrives, selling everything from vapes to bootleg alcohol.
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No Man's Land: An ungoverned border market

No Man's Land is an ungoverned strip of riverbank between Thailand and Myanmar, where a unique market thrives, selling everything from vapes to bootleg alcohol.

US President Donald Trump at a Summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday.

‘We don’t want them’: Trump imposes travel bans on citizens from 12 countries

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

  • Michael Koziol
Indonesian trafficking victims wait to be processed at the Thai border after being released.

From the Thai borderlands, I saw the workers coming for their freedom

The nondescript town of Mae Sot on the Myanmar-Thai border has long been a hub of dubious trade. But now something remarkable is happening.

  • Zach Hope
KK Park in Myanmar, known for its scam compounds, is seen across the Moei River on the Myanmar–Thailand border.

Borderlands: On the edge of humanity

Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty travel to the borderlands near Myanmar, where efforts are under way to rescue thousands of trafficking victims from scam factories.

Lured by fake jobs in Thailand, victims are trafficked to Myanmar's notorious scam centres, forced into slavery, and made to commit online fraud under duress.
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The fight to free scam slaves in Myanmar

Lured by fake jobs in Thailand, victims are trafficked to Myanmar's notorious scam centres, forced into slavery, and made to commit online fraud under duress.

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Myanmar scam compounds

Caught in a $60b scam, these workers tried to flee but the soldiers were waiting

It starts with a fake job ad and a free plane ticket to Bangkok. But when you cross into Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, you realise what you’ve walked into.

  • Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
Thai protesters lay posters condemning Myanmar General Min Aung Hlaing on top of a sheet covered in fake blood in Bangkok, Thailand. Protesters gathered to oppose the presence of the junta leader, who is attending a regional summit for the first time since the military coup that brought him to power.

Myanmar chief feted by leaders as bombs fall

As the junta leader shook hands in Bangkok, the UN said it had received 14 reports of attacks despite a promised halt to the bombing after the earthquake.

  • Zach Hope
Rescue workers are seen working at the collapsed construction building.

What it is like to wait for a miracle at Bangkok’s grey mountain of destruction

I’ve been looking at this mound of death for days. Those poor people trapped inside. What they endured, where they might be.

  • Zach Hope
A market at the village of Lospalos in the east of Timor-Leste.

Trump pointed the finger at a country where the average wage is $11 a day. The crowd laughed

“They made a fortune with the United States of America,” the US President declared, as he imposed tariffs on some of the world’s poorest countries, in a move that could open the door for China.

  • Philip J. Heijmans and Antony Sguazzin

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