Chinese Online Worker Commits Suicide After Debt Call

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:06 pm

Cambodia Breaking News (Pursat): A 22-year-old male Chinese online worker, GONG PHEN, committed suicide by jumping off the 3rd-floor of building no. 8, on July 19, 2019, at 5:47 am, in Sanngkum Thmei village, Veang Veng district, Pursat.

According to the victim's co-workers, SHU JI, a 20-year-old man, CHEN RUI CAI, a 35-year-old man, YANG XIAN FANG, a 27-year-old man, and LIANG XIANG LE, 24-year-old, at 2 am that evening, the victim talked on Wechat to a Chinese man who was calling him to demand that he pay back his money debt, or else.
After that, the victim jumped from the 3rd floor balcony of the building to kill himself.

The specialist police and the autopsy concluded that the victim committed suicide by jumping from the building. RIP.

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CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:30 pm

The poor kid was only 21.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:47 pm

This is very sad, I wonder how many of the Chinese or other foreign workers are in similar circumstances. There isn't enough detail in the article to tell, but the debt could be from his family who are up to necks in it, his own gambling habit, or money owed to a trafficker for landing him a great job embezzling/ extorting from gullible folks online.

Yerg · Post by **Yerg** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 12:32 am

John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:47 pm This is very sad, I wonder how many of the Chinese or other foreign workers are in similar circumstances. There isn't enough detail in the article to tell, but the debt could be from his family who are up to necks in it, his own gambling habit, or money owed to a trafficker for landing him a great job embezzling/ extorting from gullible folks online.

Amongst other things. Did you ever watch the documentary about the Apple "employees" in China killing themselves? It did (eventually) lead to an "enquiry" by Apple. Not heard a dickie-bird since.

EDIT: It is a crying shame that there are not other choices than these.

NeverNude · Post by **NeverNude** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 7:33 am

Yerg wrote:
John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:47 pm This is very sad, I wonder how many of the Chinese or other foreign workers are in similar circumstances. There isn't enough detail in the article to tell, but the debt could be from his family who are up to necks in it, his own gambling habit, or money owed to a trafficker for landing him a great job embezzling/ extorting from gullible folks online.
Amongst other things. Did you ever watch the documentary about the Apple "employees" in China killing themselves? It did (eventually) lead to an "enquiry" by Apple. Not heard a dickie-bird since.

EDIT: It is a crying shame that there are not other choices than these.

That’s because the FoxCon “Apple” suicide story was fake news. Yes, some of the 50,000 workers jumped to their deaths, but it was found out later that statistically, the suicide rates among the workers was lower than the general population. Also, they are paid 3x what an average factory worker gets paid, so the slave labor angle was fake news as well. Plus Apple was just one of their customers. FoxCon did work for literally every tech company you can think of.

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