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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

More than 600 people have fled one of Myanmar's most notorious scam centers and crossed into Thailand, a Thai provincial official has said, after a military raid on the compound. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/23/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-scam-raid-thailand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #thailand #myanmar #forcedlabor #kidnapping #fraud #southeastasia

The Japan Times

Hundreds flee to Thailand after latest raid on Myanmar scam center

A recent investigation revealed construction at several compounds, while Starlink receivers had been installed apparently connecting the hubs to the satellite internet network.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

U.S. and U.K. authorities unveiled sanctions against a British-Cambodian tycoon accused of running cyberscam operations where workers, some trafficked, carry out transnational fraud schemes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/16/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-prince-us-uk-sanctions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #cambodia #fraud #us #uk #organizedcrime #forcedlabor #humantrafficking

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U.S. and U.K. sanctions target Cambodia's Prince Group and tycoon Chen Zhi

Prince Holding Group, one of Cambodia's largest conglomerates, was a front for 'one of Asia's largest transnational criminal organizations,' the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

South Korea will send a special team to Cambodia on Wednesday to discuss cases of fake jobs and scam centers involved in kidnapping dozens of its nationals, officials said a day after Seoul vowed to bring them all home. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal/seoul-cambodia-scam-kidnappings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #southkorea #cambodia #forcedlabor #fraud #cryptocurrencies

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Seoul sends team to Cambodia over scam center kidnappings

The team, headed by the vice foreign minister, will depart Wednesday evening, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/asia-pacific/society/child-workers-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #forcedlabor #childlabor #childabuse #pakistan

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Russia's invasion of Ukraine takes Yasuhiko Ito back to after World War II, when the former Soviet Union took him — a disarmed soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army — to what is now Bakhmut for forced labor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/17/japan/history/japanese-internee-in-ukraine-after-wwii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #russia #ukraine #forcedlabor #imperialjapanesearmy

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Former Japanese internee in Ukraine pained by Russian invasion

After World War II, Yasuhiko Ito was taken as a disarmed soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army by the former Soviet Union to Ukraine for forced labor.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Russia says forced labor, introduced in 2011, is a humane form of punishment that reduces re-offending and lets criminals to contribute to the economy and society. Convicts say its a return to the days of the gulag. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/world/crime-legal/arctic-russia-convict-labor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #prisons #arctic #forcedlabor

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

The Trump administration has announced that it will increase scrutiny on a range of goods from China as it pursues the president's trade goals and continues fighting alleged forced labor in Xinjiang. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/20/markets/us-china-steel-lithium-forced-labor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #china #lithium #mining #steel #forcedlabor

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@Herman@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@kate “This unvarnished perspective reveals a fundamental truth about the corporate embrace of AI: it is, at its core, a quest for efficiency and profitability. And in this quest, human labor is often seen as a liability, an obstacle to be overcome.”.

The dehumanization of society for profit continues. #AI #forcedlabor

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Kate Bowles
@kate@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Thinking about this, and the future of global #underwork.

https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294

The End of Work as We Know It

Herman 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇾🇪🍋
@Herman@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@kate “This unvarnished perspective reveals a fundamental truth about the corporate embrace of AI: it is, at its core, a quest for efficiency and profitability. And in this quest, human labor is often seen as a liability, an obstacle to be overcome.”.

The dehumanization of society for profit continues. #AI #forcedlabor

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