{"id":69556,"date":"2025-02-19T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/19\/myanmar-scam-call-centre-compound-rescues-thailand-crackdown"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:17:21","slug":"thousands-rescued-from-illegal-scam-compounds-in-myanmar-as-thailand-launches-huge-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69556","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rescued from illegal scam compounds in Myanmar as Thailand launches huge crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for criminal syndicates operating online scam operations and tricking thousands into enslaved work<\/p>\n<p>About 7,000 people have been rescued from illegal call centre operations in Myanmar and were waiting to be transferred to Thailand, prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Wednesday, as the country launched a large-scale crackdown on scam centres operating on the border.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister\u2019s announcement came after Thai police said they were preparing to receive up to 10,000 foreigners rescued from a network of notorious scam centres.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/19\/myanmar-scam-call-centre-compound-rescues-thailand-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for criminal syndicates operating online scam operations and tricking thousands into enslaved workAbout 7,000 people have been rescued from illegal call centre operations in Myanmar and were waiting to be t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1057,725,82,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs-trade","category-human-trafficking","category-myanmar","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69556\/revisions\/69557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}