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They answer an ad for customer service workers in Asia. The job turns out to be kidnappings, torture and hell on earth. Scam compounds employ thousands ...
Hundreds of men and women stand in rows, divided by nationality, in the courtyard of a white-walled compound, flanked by armed guards in fatigues.
We will kill ourselves instead of going back to them,’ said one of the dozens who attempted a mass escape from their Myanmar ...
Last November, 27-year-old Bea felt a wave of relief as she stepped onto a plane at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport heading back to her home in Central Philippines. It was the end of a two-year ...
Some 7,000 victims were rescued from scam compounds in Myanmar UN estimates hundreds of thousands of trafficked workers still ...
BANGKOK — They walked out of the compound in Myanmar not knowing where they would ... who were rescued from forced labor in scam compounds two months ago but remain in detention in Myanmar ...
Recent regional law enforcement operations have prompted “agile” organized crime groups to expand their regional and global ...
A group of 15 Malaysian victims of job scams rescued from Myanmar will be repatriated on Tuesday, marking the fourth group to ...
China’s Ministry of Public Security, Interpol and premium investigating agencies in other countries have tried to combat ...
A new U.N. report warns that transnational organized crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative ...
BANGKOK (AP) — They walked out of the compound in Myanmar not ... Most of the 1,700 people still in Myanmar are being held in army camps or repurposed scam compounds controlled by the Kayin ...