{"id":245949,"date":"2020-02-23T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=245949"},"modified":"2020-02-23T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:49:52","slug":"ph-china-join-hands-vs-illegal-gambling-telecom-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/23\/ph-china-join-hands-vs-illegal-gambling-telecom-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"PH, China join hands vs. illegal gambling, telecom fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211428\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KNG-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211428\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KNG-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KNG-8.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KNG-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KNG-8-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KNG-8-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KNG-8-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is accompanied by People&#8217;s Republic of China President Xi Jinping inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 25, 2019. KING RODRIGUEZ\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Beijing and Manila are working closely to combat illegal online gambling and telecommunication fraud in the Philippines, the Chinese Embassy in Manila said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Government always requires Chinese citizens overseas to abide by local laws and regulations and not to work illegally in foreign countries,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It said the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines has repeatedly issued consular reminders and has been keeping close communications with the Philippine government in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese side would like to continue to work closely with the Philippines to combat such crimes as telecommunications fraud, illegal online-gambling, money-laundering, illegal employment, kidnapping, extortion, torture, murder etc. so as to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of nationals of the two countries, and to promote the China-Philippines friendship and cooperation,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Reports earlier said China had threatened to cancel the passports of Chinese nationals involved with Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogo) if they did not return home.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy did not specifically say it cancelled the passports but confirmed that some of its citizens have already been barred from exiting China over telecommunication fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to crack down on cross-border telecommunication fraud crimes, the Ministry of Public Security of China has obtained a list of Chinese nationals suspected of committing long-term telecommunication fraud crimes abroad, who are classified as the persons prohibited from exiting China according to the Exit-Entry Administration Law of the People&#8217;s Republic of China,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>It added such operations are aimed at Chinese nationals who have committed telecommunications fraud crimes in different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Beijing and Manila are working closely to combat illegal online gambling and telecommunication fraud in the Philippines, the Chinese &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":211428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245950,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245949\/revisions\/245950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}