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A netizen posted on the Wuhan University forum on Baidu Tieba, claiming that Liu Yizhen lured their son to Myanmar on October 27 and subsequently went to Malaysia.

On October 23, a Hearthstone player posted a plea for help on the gaming community Lvfashi Camp, saying he had been kidnapped in Thailand and taken to a telecom fraud park in Myawaddy, Myanmar. The park holds about 700 to 800 people, 80 percent of whom were abducted from Thailand. His family has reported the case to the police at home and sought help from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but he has still not been rescued.

On the afternoon of October 21, Myanmar security forces arrested 99 Chinese nationals (95 men and 4 women) inside a corrugated iron factory of about 465 square meters in Monghsat Township, Eastern Shan State, seizing 13 all-in-one computers, 193 mobile phones, and two sets of Starlink equipment, accusing them of being involved in online fraud and online gambling. The Myanmar side said they would be handled according to the law after investigation.

A 16-year-old Chinese netizen submitted a plea for help, saying he was in a scam park called "Ruidangni" (also known as "Xintiandi Park") on the Thailand-Myanmar border and hoped to leave and return home. The park reportedly gathers about 1,700 people, and around 2,200 including logistics staff, and is run under high-pressure security management, maintaining order through beatings, verbal abuse and corporal punishment. It engages in targeted-chat scam operations aimed at the domestic market, and is suspected of cross-border fraud and forced labor.

Michael Vance, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, held direct talks with the Myanmar military junta, with both sides focusing on shutting down scam centers targeting Americans and cooperation on rare earths; Myanmar subsequently released the American businessman Castillo.

On October 5, CCTV aired the first episode of the documentary 'The Sword is Drawn', exposing the criminal inner workings of telecom fraud compounds in northern Myanmar, including luring victims with high-paying jobs, illegal border crossing, detention, violence, forced debt notes, trafficking between compounds, and even the harvesting of organs to pay off debts.

On September 30, Red Star News reported that some fraud groups in Myawaddy, Myanmar, have relocated their bases after a crackdown, moving to remote mountainous areas controlled by local armed forces and continuing to openly recruit through social platforms. Sources say the reason telecom fraud cannot be stopped despite repeated bans is that the protective umbrellas have not been taken down.

The Irrawaddy published an investigation on September 18, monitoring three Telegram accounts for three months starting in May and collecting 9,322 recruitment ads involving multiple areas of Kayin State, showing that telecom fraud activities are still expanding.

On September 10, a Phoenix TV reporter once again visited the Osmā telecom fraud park, exposing its torture rooms for the first time. Baton-like detention tools were scattered at the scene, and multiple eyewitnesses and people who had successfully escaped confirmed that these rooms were indeed torture rooms.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that one of its representatives visited detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, in accordance with standard procedures for visiting people deprived of their liberty.

Myanmar media The Irrawaddy published satellite comparison images: an area in Thitkate was still empty land on June 30, and by August 5 a cluster of buildings had appeared. Local residents say it is a relocated scam compound.

Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, a rare contact amid overseas concern over her welfare.

Facing the situation where the Kyaukpyu deep-water port is surrounded by the Rakhine Army, the Chinese side bypassed the Myanmar military junta and sent officials on a special plane to directly land in Rakhine State to negotiate face-to-face with the high command of the Rakhine Army to protect investment projects.

The Myanmar military junta released some prisoners in an amnesty on a religious holiday, and official media broadcasted footage of Aung San Suu Kyi being transferred to house arrest, prompting the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to subsequently refer to her as an old friend.

Li Xiong, a core member of Chen Zhi's group and former chairman of the Huione Group, has been escorted back to China.

On July 24, China's Ministry of Public Security announced that all 630-plus buildings in the KK Park compound in Myawaddy, Myanmar, have been demolished.

On January 10, the Myanmar government announced that, as of January 9, all illegal buildings in KK Park used for online fraud and gambling activities had been completely demolished, including 148 buildings in Zone 1, 62 buildings in Zone 2, and 425 buildings in Zone 3, totaling 635 illegal structures.

A-Quan, a Shenzhen resident and former armed police officer, was tricked by a man speaking with a Fujian accent into going to a telecom fraud park in Myanmar in 2021. Because he refused to carry out fraud, he was subjected to physical punishment. He later escaped at night and sought help from the Chinese embassy, but received no response.

She Zhijiang, founder of the Yatai New City project in Myawaddy, was taken away by Thai police in Bangkok based on an Interpol Red Notice during a dinner gathering.