Southeast Asia’s scam gangs regroup after Cambodia’s purge
South China Morning Post / Aidan JonesCambodia says it has flushed out a scam industry estimated to have stolen tens of billions of US dollars last year alone, but a string of arrests in recent days suggests the gangs behind it may have simply changed address. Scam centres proliferated across Cambodia during the pandemic, when hundreds of thousands of jobless young people were pulled into defunct casino complexes to target victims worldwide with bogus romance, cryptocurrency and investment frauds. Chinese criminal networks found an...1 day ago | ភាសារខ្មែរWhy Cambodia is reviving US military drills despite close China ties
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South China Morning Post / Aidan JonesThailand has issued a full-throated rebuttal of comments by a UN human rights specialist whose visit last week to Cambodia found 20,000 people remain displaced by the border war, as the neighbouring nations engage in a battle for international opinion over their deadly territorial dispute. Thailand and Cambodia fought a brief but bloody border war in July and December last year that killed scores and displaced roughly a million people across both sides of the disputed frontier. A December 2025...31 days ago | ភាសារខ្មែរCambodian jobseekers fear debt trap over Thailand’s border reinforcement
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