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Scam Pressure & Strikes on Sittwe
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With Sue-Lin Wong, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Economist. This week on What's Happening in Myanmar, ASEAN continues talking consensus, Sittwe fighting begins in earnest, and we speak about the scam industry in the region, as hundreds of trafficked victims go free from Myawaddy.
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Timecodes—
0m58s :: Weekly news digest
8m33s :: With Sue-Lin Wong, the scam industry
15m06s :: Why do people fall for scams?
17m22s :: Coercion and worker trafficking
23m11s :: Chinese experience of scams
25m26s :: Absent connection to CCP
31m45s :: Future of scams
34m52s :: Close
Our guest—
Sue-Lin Wong, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Economist.
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