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Episode Synopsis
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. Email the show at [email protected] Timecodes— 0m58s :: Weekly news digest8m33s :: With Sue-Lin Wong, the scam industry15m06s :: Why do people fall for scams?17m22s :: Coercion and worker trafficking23m11s :: Chinese experience of scams25m26s :: Absent connection to CCP31m45s :: Future of scams 34m52s :: Close Our guest— Sue-Lin Wong, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Economist. Introduction to Scam Inc. Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs And read Frontier's editorial this week on the dangers posed by Elon Musk.
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