Hello, welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
My name's Ed Butler.
On today's edition,
we're examining the industrial use of human slaves in Southeast Asia to scam people around the world,
why these places exist and the tale of one woman who managed to escape.
Also in the show, China hits back at Canadian tariffs with a wave of tariffs of its own.
And Russia and Ukraine's mooted ceasefire on energy infrastructure.
Which side, we wonder, will really benefit the most?
It would definitely be very beneficial for the Russian economy
because it would allow Russia to sell its oil at higher price.
Would it bring down the oil price?
I'm not really sure.
All of that to come later in the show.
In recent weeks,
thousands of people from various countries around the world have begun their journeys home after being freed by rebel groups from so called scam centers in Myanmar.
These Chinese run institutions have the last three few years been using forced labor to target people around the world with fraudulent schemes online.
35 year old Annika Boram from Sri Lanka is one of those who finally managed to get out of there.
She was duped into traveling into what she believed would be a legitimate job.
In it, she's been telling me about what she and others were forced to go through.
They just train us how to chat to each other pretending to be a girl.