{"id":75525,"date":"2025-02-07T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/inside-the-brand-new-city-built-on-scams-on-the-myanmar-thai-border-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:47:48","slug":"inside-the-brand-new-city-built-on-scams-on-the-myanmar-thai-border-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/inside-the-brand-new-city-built-on-scams-on-the-myanmar-thai-border-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the brand new city &#8216;built on scams&#8217; on the Myanmar-Thai border | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand\u2019s government said it is trying to shut down the criminal scam compounds which have proliferated along its border with <!--more--> Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they will do this by cutting electricity supplies and tightening banking and visa regulations.<\/p>\n<p>It has resulted in a frenzy of building over on the Myanmar side of the border, with the most ambitious of these projects the newly built city of Shwe Kokko &#8211; a $15 billion investment promising casinos, luxury hotels and entertainment complexes.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Myanmar #Thailand #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand\u2019s government said it is trying to shut down the criminal scam compounds which have proliferated along its border with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}