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Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams

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Post by lmm »

rsynnott wrote: post #59
lmm wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the same kind of administrative division as Monaco City. It's where the Grand Prix is announced as being held. Las Vegas is also legally a subset of the metropolitan area that it's part of. Americans do call the thing that Las Vegas is a "city" and do not call the thing that Monte Carlo is a "city", but this seems more like a translation artifact than any real difference.

Monte Carlo has a population of 3,500 people and is entirely contiguous with the rest of Monaco-the-city. I'm not sure anyone would consider it a city in itself.

Shrug. Within a factor of 3 or so of the City of London. I'm sure there are other examples. Administrative districts are weird.

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Post by alephnerd »

GuB-42 wrote: post #55
willbw wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you might be imposing an America-centric view on the BBC. I doubt that was the intention.

I am not British, I am French, and when I think about a city with casinos, that's definitely Las Vegas, and I think that it would be even more true for the British, who have more ties to the US than the French. And yes, more Las Vegas than Monaco, even though it is a 2 hour drive from where I live. Monaco is not famous for casinos (plural), it is famous for one particular casino, that is the Monte-Carlo casino. And i…

> And if they specified Asia, Macao would have popped up in my mind

The Xi Admin cracked down on Macau around the 2016-18 period as part of the larger crackdown.

It was during this time that most of the gambling (in reality money laundering) operations moved abroad to Phillipines, Cambodia, Myanmar, etc.

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Post by alephnerd »

misantroop wrote: post #27
amiga386 wrote: post #18

On a related note, POGOs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_offshore_gaming_ope... The Philippines (under Duterte) said to Chinese criminals: Feel free to base your operations here and rip off your fellow Chinese, but don't rip off us Filipinos. Then these POGO centres started scamming locals and Chinese alike, and staffed themselves with scam victims, using blackmail and torture to force them to work there an…

Philippines is corrupt to the core as well, from courts to police to civilians. So the real reason why POGOs were thrown out of the country was that the didn't pay off the right people. Nothing gets done in Philippines without bribes.

> So the real reason why POGOs were thrown out of the country was that the didn't pay off the right people

They did pay the right people. It's just that the "right people" lost the presidency in 2022.

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Post by v3ss0n »

I am from Myanmar and Shwe KoKo is the biggest scam hub of the world . Not just online scam they are operating all kind of illegal activities.Myanmar Junta is also part of that and china bordering Laukkai. Laukkai is now liberated and scammers arrested as revolution forces won. Shwe KoKo is last one to be eliminated .

They advertise recruitment ads of 8000$ a month for working in IT so many youth went there , and forced to end up as sex slaves , scammers , sex cammers . Who refuse to work and try run away are organ harvested or trafficked to china. They are very dark crime gang not limited to - Human Trafficking. - Organ Harvesting. - Dark Web activities. - Drug and Women abuses.

The BGF Militia of Saw Chit Thu is working with scammers they have arm forces of 8000 handing that.

In April 2023, Joint Revolution forces led by KTLA Lion Battalion : Saw Eh Say Wah launched an offensive against the Kayin State BGF in Shwe Kokko l . They almost captured Shwe KoKo and BGF (Saw Chit Thu) ran away to Thailand. But during the fight one sact of KNU (biggest rebel forces in Karen area who suppose to be helping KTLA ,but leaders also owns shares in Shwe KoKo ) betrayed KTLA forces and backstabbed Saw Eh Say Wah and KTLA Revolution forces. He barely escaped and estimated 200 of KTLA perished.

Now China is pushing Thailand to shut down Shwe KoKo and elecriticy is now cut off. They are moving operartion more inside of Myanmar.

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Post by Muromec »

yakkomajuri wrote: post #31

The Chinese investment into strategic spots around the South China Sea & Gulf of Thailand is really interesting to witness. I was at Sihanoukville (Cambodia) around 5 years ago and was surprised to find what was seemingly a Chinese city. There was a lot of dust, construction, and the city seemed like it was being raised out of the ground really quickly. Massive Chinese casinos and hotels were around and locals report…

Are they still planning the high speed rail that they were planning ten years ago?

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Post by Muromec »

rsynnott wrote: post #53
misja111 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Libertarians would answer that in a True Libertarian World, gambling would be legal everywhere: so gamblers would have a rich choice between casino's and wouldn't have to resort to shady casino's with bad reputations, as they do now.

This isn't primarily gambling, though, it's _fraud_.

Just wait two weeks till CFPB is disbanded and all the crypto scam will be legal too.

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Post by thfuran »

lupusreal wrote: post #22
Muromec wrote: post #19

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Does anybody dream of living in one or just dreams of owning the one? I fail to see the upside of living in somebody's pocket soviet union when places like Singapure actually exist.

Singapore certainly isn't for me, but I don't think you can call it unpopular by any means.

I wouldn't call it libertarian either.

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Post by Arn_Thor »

feverzsj wrote: post #32

It's not just some scams. It's the darkest thing ever in the whole human history. After China banned using of death row organs around 2014, the world's largest organ black market has moved to southeast Asia. There are estimated more than 100k victims (mostly Chinese) annually. Some of them may be released, if their families can afford the ransom. The remaining victims are treated like livestock. They are forced into…

I’d like one source please

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Post by api »

For those who don't know -- Boca Raton, Florida is well known in the US as a major center of scams and borderline-scams like MLMs. Utah has a history of being a home for this stuff too, as well as a lot of quack supplement companies and self-help nonsense.

Just pointing this out so we don't think this doesn't exist here.

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Post by aaron695 »

feverzsj wrote: post #32

It's not just some scams. It's the darkest thing ever in the whole human history. After China banned using of death row organs around 2014, the world's largest organ black market has moved to southeast Asia. There are estimated more than 100k victims (mostly Chinese) annually. Some of them may be released, if their families can afford the ransom. The remaining victims are treated like livestock. They are forced into…

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