As the independent International Crisis Group said recently, “The [Burmese] state is fragmenting as ethnic armed groups ...

The Financial Action Task Force has also added Laos and Nepal to its list of nations subject to “increased monitoring.” ...

Thailand saw the number of scam calls and text messages more than double to a record 168 million in 2024 from a year earlier, an anti-scam tech firm said, before authorities stepped up a crackdown on ...

Bertil Lintner looks at the often devious ways in which China cemented the pauk-phaw or kinship relationship to become the dominant foreign power in Myanmar, sidelining all others.

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Two convicts in a separate case were found to have recruited minors for telecom scams, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

A Chinese court has sentenced four individuals to life imprisonment for their roles in cross-border telecom fraud operations. Targeting both local and foreign victims, these scams involved luring ...