India, Jan. 30 -- China executed 11 people it found guilty of killing 14 Chinese citizens and running scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said. The Wenzhou city Intermediate People's Court announced the executions in a statement on Thursday. It had sentenced the 11 people to death last September. They were detained in November 2023 when Chinese authorities exerted pressure on authorities in the border areas shared with Myanmar to crack down on scams. Scam parks have become an industrial scale business in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.P16

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