Abducted Chinese actor’s rescue from scam centre spurs families of those missing to act


Chinese actor Wang Xing (right) with Thai police officers after returning from Myanmar, at the Thai-Myanmar border district of Mae Sot, on Jan 7. - Photo: EPA-EFE

CHONGQING/BEIJING: A Chinese TV actor’s swift rescue from a fraud farm on Tuesday (Jan 7) after going missing at the Thai-Myanmar border has reinvigorated hopes for the families of those who remain captive, as they mount fresh pressure on the authorities to do the same for their loved ones.

Wang Xing, 31, had disappeared on Jan 4 from Mae Sot, a Thai town bordering Myanmar, after travelling there for what he believed was a role in a filming project, Chinese media reported.

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