‘Bring my grandson home for CNY’

Urgent plea: Chong (centre) with Low (left) addressing the media on the plight of her grandson in Myanmar.

IPOH: A 61-year-old waitress is hoping to be reunited with her grandson, who was tricked into working as a scammer in a foreign country, before Chinese New Year.

Only wanting to be known as Chong, she said her 19-year-old grandson Ah Yang had begged her to rescue him from a heavily-guarded compound in Myanmar and bring him home.