An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began Thursday, after the rescued workers were taken across the border to Thailand and put on chartered flights to China.

A group of 200 Chinese nationals plucked from scam centres in Myanmar crossed into Thailand and were flown home on Thursday, as part of a multinational effort to repatriate hundreds caught up in massive internet fraud schemes,

A group of 200 Chinese citizens suspected of involvement in telecom fraud were returned to China under the escort of Chinese police on Thursday after being repatriated from Myawaddy in Myanmar. The 200 Chinese citizens are the first group of telecom fraud suspects repatriated from Myanmar to China.