The film’s setting resembles the Southeast Asian country’s lawless northern reaches.
China reportedly told Myanmar’s junta to shut down online scam centres that target Chinese citizens a month before the film’s release.
Chinese thriller “No More Bets” tells the story of a computer programmer who is trafficked to an unnamed Southeast Asian country and forced to work as an online scammer for a syndicate. “The storylines are related to Myanmar, and there are reports that Chinese nationals are worried about visiting Myanmar,” he told government officials in the Guangxi region earlier this week.
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