BEIJING (AFP): A Chinese court sentenced to death on Monday 16 members of a family-run criminal gang that established deadly scam centres in Myanmar's Kokang region on the border with China, among other crimes.
Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners -- many of them Chinese -- who say they were trafficked and forced to swindle people online, part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry.
