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A |     BANGKOK -- Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic.In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound in Myanmar, where he was instead ordered to lure Chinese into giving up their savings for fake investment schemes via social media platforms.Zhang is one of tens of thousands of people, mostly but not all Chinese, who have become ensnared in cyber scam networks run by powerful Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia. Regional and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites and criminal networks that are bound to keep running the schemes.When scam operations are shut down in one place they often just resurface elsewhere. The problem is an embarrassment for Beijing and is discouraging ordinary Chinese from traveling to Southeast Asia out of fear they might be duped or kidnapped and caught up in a cyber scam operation. In recent years, media reports have uncovered instances of young people being lured to places in Cambodia or Myanmar for high-paying jobs, only to be forced to work as scammers. Rescue organizations say people are regularly beaten or face physical punishments such as being forced to run laps if they don't perform well. In August, China, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar agreed to set up a joint police operations center to tackle cyber scams in the region. On Oct. 10, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that its “Summer Operation” had successfully brought back 2,317 scam suspects from northern Myanmar to China.China calls such people suspects, though experts say most of them are victims who were forced to work for the criminals. They question how they will be treated once back in China. The schemes based in countries like Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia are run by Chinese bosses hand-in-hand with local elites. Many are based in places where China has financed big construction projects through leader Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative.Myanmar's border regions long have been a magnet for criminals — historically including drug producers and traffickers — because of lax law enforcement. Such places are generally under the control of ethnic minority armed groups, either opposed to or allied with Myanmar’s central government. Some also cooperate with organized crime gangs.“From the vantage point of the Chinese government, it’s a source of extreme embarrassment that you have so many of these Chinese criminals operating all across Southeast Asia,” said Jason Tower, an expert on transnational crime with the United States Institute of Peace.The syndicates also are known for “pig butchering” cons, where scammers entice individuals, often halfway across the world, to invest their money in bogus schemes after duping them into digital romances.The scammers divide their targets into two categories: Chinese and non-Chinese. They use scripts, images of models and influencers and translation software to trick the people they contact by phone or online into parting with their money. Victims can be anywhere in the world.The criminals have “ridden on the shoulders of the Belt and Road Initiative,” said Tower, who outlined links between the criminals and Chinese state enterprises, think tanks and government officials in a 2020 report written for the United States Institute of Peace.Zhang was working in Thailand and on a visa run to Laos when he met the man who lured him to the scam compound in Myanmar. Giving what he said was his last name, Gao, he claimed to be a broker and travel agent for Chinese living in Thailand. Zhang and his wife wanted extra money to pay for in vitro fertilization to have another child. Gao suggested he go work in Myawaddy, in eastern Myanmar’s Kayin state, teaching a local chef how to cook Chinese dishes in Gao’s new restaurant. The pay would be double what Zhang made in China.Zhang was wary. Since a 2021 coup, military-controlled Myanmar has been embroiled in civil conflict. But Gao reassured him that he wouldn’t be doing anything illegal and said the restaurant would have plenty of customers since many cyber scam businesses were operating in the area.That might have raised a red flag but it was only once he got to Myanmar that Zhang realized his predicament. He asked to go back home, saying there was a family emergency. His family helped him scrape together some 40,000 yuan ($5,472) to pay off the debt Gao claimed he owed him, and he slipped away one night, swimming across the Moei River into Thailand, where he turned himself in to Thai police, who contacted the Chinese Embassy.Zhang showed the AP copies of his deportation notice from the Thai Immigration police and a temporary ID card. He returned to China in late June and was questioned by Chinese police but not detained. He has been sharing his story on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, to alert others to the risks and says people often contact him about relatives trapped in cyber scam compounds.“We all went out with this wonderful sense of hope, but then reality slammed us in the face,” he said.In total, China has detained some 4,000 suspects and returned them back to China. The Ministry of Public Security has claimed “breakthrough results” through operations in coordination with Myanmar authorities. On Monday, they announced they had repatriated another 2,349 people. The ministry did not respond to a faxed request for comment.One 31-year old former chef who was smuggled into Myanmar’s Wa State earlier this year said he saw his company hand over four people to Chinese police with little fanfare in September. Other companies did the same, said the man, who was smuggled into Myanmar and later rescued by a non-profit organization. He declined to be named out of fear of government retribution, and The Associated Press could not independently verify his account.Overall, the enforcement actions don’t seem very comprehensive, experts say. The groups now based in Myanmar originally were located in Cambodia. When Cambodia cracked down on online gambling rings and illegal casinos in 2019, many of the groups just moved to less well policed places in Myanmar. Some were taken over by rival gangs.China's efforts to repair its image have so far not made much headway, said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University. “You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas," he said, "but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort." -—-AP researcher Wanqing Chen in Beijing and AP writers Grant Peck and Jintamas Saksornchai in Bangkok contributed to this report.。    Renee 综合          今天上午，成千上万的人走上街头抗议政府的“反毛利”政策，这是由毛利党发起的全国性抗议活动。

B | 抗议的车队在今早7点左右聚集在新西兰的一些城市和主要的交通点，导致全国各地早高峰时段的交通瘫痪。

C |          Advertise with us          早些时候，抗议者将车停在奥克兰北岸Albany的高速上，“阻挡”了驾车者，而怀卡托高速则被一排汽车堵住了20分钟。

D | Whanganui的3号国道被沿着公路缓慢行走的抗议者堵住，他们挥舞着旗帜，播放着音乐。TikTok上的一名抗议者表示，他们正走向Whanganui法院，并计划与法官交谈。

E |          在惠灵顿，1000名抗议者聚集在国会外的场地，毛利党联合党魁Debbie Ngarewa-Packer向人群发表了讲话。         大多数车队已经散去，但上午10点仍有大约200人留在Mangere Bridge。         早些时候，驾车者说，“缓慢移动”的抗议者驾驶着他们的汽车穿过北岸大桥，造成交通拥堵。         一名被困在Albany 1号高速上的通勤者说，抗议者在高速公路上排成一排，车辆打着双闪灯。

F |          “我前面有路障，后面也有路障，他们排成一排，阻止交通通行。这太疯狂了。”          抗议者导致Hobsonville前往市中心的交通拥堵。图片来源：NZ Herald          警方早前表示，今天上午他们将继续监控高速公路中不同地点的车队。         “虽然出现了交通中断，但抗议活动是和平的，没有人被捕。

G | 随着交通拥堵逐渐消除，驾车人士可能会继续受到延误。”          目前，随着主要城市的抗议活动接近尾声，交通开始畅通。新西兰交通局将继续全天监控交通网络。         毛利党联合党魁Rawiri Waititi带领抗议者向国会游行。他们聚集在1号高速的Terrace Tunnel，举着“尊重[怀唐伊]条约”(Honour the Treaty)和“种族主义不会胜利”(Racism Won’t Win)的标语。         抗议者在汉密尔顿The Base购物中心外的Te Rapa Road。

H | 图片来源：NZ Herald / MIKE SCOTT          联合党魁Ngarewa-Packer告诉这群抗议者“坚持住”。她说，她的后代在自己的土地上永远不会成为二等公民。         她还抨击了新西兰优先党国会议员Shane Jones指责他们扮演受害者的角色。“这里有人扮演受害者吗?”“不，”他们喊道。         在奥克兰，Dave Letele(前拳击手转变为社区倡导者)和其他人聚集在BP Bombay，告诉人群不要做出引起他人责备的事情，”保持和平，保持尊重。

I | ”          另一名在Bombay的抗议者说，她参与抗议的主要原因是“为了确保在未来三年内怀唐伊条约维持原状”。         图片来源：NZ Herald          毛利党今天表示，周二的抗议示威活动是“许多活动”中的第一个。         “我们将从第一次活动中吸取教训，越来越好。

J | ”          在回应抗议活动的问题时，总理Christopher Luxon说，他的政府今天已经执政七天，并决心确保毛利人在他的政府领导下比工党执政的六年更好。         他说，“毛利党可以自由地激活他们的支持者，只要他们有一个合法和尊重的过程。”          然而，Luxon表示，毛利党使用的一些图像和语言是“完全不合适的”。

K | 他们在其抗议信息中使用了两把枪的图像，指责政府“系统性种族灭绝”，并称新政府的行动是“国家支持的恐怖主义”。         图片来源：NZ Herald          据此前报道，上个月，国家党同意支持行动党的政策，即在第一阶段对定义《怀唐伊条约》的原则进行有约束力的全民公决。         这一承诺并不能保证会有公投，因为国家党和优先党在委员会阶段（国会程序）之外没有承诺任何支持，但确保了会有一个关于这个问题的全国性对话。         但是，这一决定引起了毛利党的不快，毛利党正呼吁全国民众采取行动。         今天，正好是新一届国会启动，所有议员都宣誓效忠英国国王。         毛利党长期以来一直反对宣誓效忠英国君主制，声称“英国王室沾满了土著民族的鲜血，它的王座位于全球白人至上的顶峰。”          毛利党在社交媒体上称这是“我们的首次亮相，明天，我们，毛利党，呼吁全国各地的人们走上街头，用双脚和声音表达抗议。”          他们表示，这将是未来3年一系列抗议行动的“开始”。         “这次全国性的抗议活动是对政府变革的直接回应，这些变革试图迅速瓦解三代人的工作，其议程公然无视毛利在新西兰的地位，并试图将我们边缘化。”          相关阅读：          毛利党发起全国示威，抗议政府的变革，明天一早奥克兰三条高速或受阻          新政府要求公共服务部门的名称不再优先用毛利语，这个机构率先改名          【先驱自媒】重磅！三党达成政策协议！毛利语先被“下架”，中央部门“辞旧迎新”……          2023大选：毛利发展部长说，行动党党魁David Seymour是新西兰“最危险”的人          注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。         chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有          (责编：twinkle)          来源 -          相关内容                新政府要求公共服务部门的名称不再优先用毛利语，这个机构率先改名           一份高度机密的内阁文件泄露，新政府受到严重冲击，总理被质疑           奥克兰今日预警！暴雨+雷暴+冰雹或将来袭           奥克兰华人洗钱案：3套房11辆车被扣！判刑结果出来了           政府宣布，这些福利上涨，明年4月生效！           新政府重拳打击犯罪，囚犯将大幅增加，但监狱里住不下了……           突发！美国和以色列驻新西兰大使馆外发现可疑包裹，附近学校被封锁           毛利党发起全国示威，抗议政府的变革，明天一早奥克兰三条高速或受阻。

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