gamblincat where you at? China warns of kidnappings at Myanmar casinos Wed Feb 25, 9:44 am ET
BEIJING (Reuters) Chinese should not go to Myanmar to gamble, because of the risks of scams and kidnapping, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Casinos lining the Mekong River along the border of Myanmar and China's southwestern Yunnan Province are popular with Chinese, since gambling is illegal in mainland China. But in recent years, Chinese lured by the promise of free trips or cheap jade have run into trouble or been cheated of all their money, the Xinhua news agency said. "People who don't know what's going on have been trapped in casinos, beaten and their relatives asked to pay ransoms," the foreign ministry said on its website. Just last month, 19 Chinese teenagers from the northern province of Shanxi were freed after their families paid ransoms to kidnappers in Myanmar. They had gambled themselves deep into debt in Myanmar when they went to Yunnan seeking work. Another group of 124 migrant workers from the northeast were stopped at the border crossing into Myanmar in December, after also having been told by human smugglers that they would find work in Yunnan(China, but they crossed Yunnan without finding jobs and were about to enter Burma to work at casinos as strippers but really as prostitutes or the ugly ones just work in military-owned sweatshops cranking out the goods for wallyworld--does Obama's Hilary Clinton still believe that the love of money is the root of all good? Or, to put it another way, the US has to stop administrating British policy for Burma, that's all there is to it, too, in another nutshell, but Burma is a lot like Arkansas and Florida).
