13-02-2025, 04:53 PM
(13-02-2025, 04:52 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centres 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 nations, were received by the Thai army, and are being assessed to find out if they were victims of human trafficking.
Last week Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra met Chinese leader Xi Jinping and promised to shut down the scam centres which have proliferated along the Thai-Myanmar border.Her govt has stopped access to power and fuel from the Thai side of border, & toughened up banking and visa rules to try to prevent scam operators from using Thailand as a transit country for moving workers and cash.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d3w90x86po