(UPDATE) THE Philippines said Wednesday it had deported 165 Chinese it accused of working in an online scam center based in the north of the country.

The group was flown to Shanghai on Tuesday and forever barred from returning to the Philippines, the Immigration Bureau said in a statement.

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