An ethnic armed group in Myanmar's Karen State declared it had established an independent republic in the war-torn country in early January 2026, but social media posts about its purported new currency share AI-generated images.

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government extended its crackdown on online scam activities to a second major location, detaining hundreds of foreigners and seizing thousands of mobile phones used to carry out the fraud, state media reported Wednesday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repatriated 90 Indonesian citizens who were stranded in online scams from the Myanmar-Thailand border.