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Philippines arrests 244 'mostly Chinese' workers in online scam crackdown

Philippines arrests 244 'mostly Chinese' workers in online scam crackdown

Philippines authorities arrested more than 200 "mostly Chinese" foreign workers in the country's largest crackdown on illegal online gaming operators this year, the immigration bureau said.
Police free 46 karaoke hostesses from ring that traps girls under 16 with fake debts

Police free 46 karaoke hostesses from ring that traps girls under 16 with fake debts

Vietnam proposes banning its workers from all massage jobs abroad

Vietnam proposes banning its workers from all massage jobs abroad

Family reunites after 39 years of separation from mother, 2 daughters

Family reunites after 39 years of separation from mother, 2 daughters

After her mother and two older sisters went missing one by one, Nguyen Thi Thai believed her family had been permanently torn apart.
April 18, 2026 | 12:00 am PT
Vietnamese woman jailed for selling 18 people to Thailand, Myanmar scam compounds

Vietnamese woman jailed for selling 18 people to Thailand, Myanmar scam compounds

A Vietnamese woman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling 18 people into Chinese-run scam compounds in Thailand and Myanmar, where they were forced to defraud fellow Vietnamese online under threat of beatings and being sold onward.
April 17, 2026 | 11:00 pm PT
Woman kidnapped at knifepoint to be sold to Cambodia escapes when captors stop for lunch

Woman kidnapped at knifepoint to be sold to Cambodia escapes when captors stop for lunch

A 41-year-old woman was ambushed on a Vietnamese highway, held overnight in a guesthouse where she was beaten and forced to transfer her savings, then loaded into a car headed for the Cambodian border, but managed to escape when her captors made one mistake: they stopped to eat.
March 2, 2026 | 03:27 pm PT
Cambodia pledges to pay tuition after scholarships linked to scam kingpin Chen Zhi are axed

Cambodia pledges to pay tuition after scholarships linked to scam kingpin Chen Zhi are axed

Cambodian students told AFP on Thursday the government had promised to pay their university tuition after more than 400 scholarships given by an alleged cyberscam kingpin were abruptly cancelled following his arrest.
January 22, 2026 | 10:42 pm PT
How the KK Park online scam center in Myanmar was taken down

How the KK Park online scam center in Myanmar was taken down

More than 600 structures were torn down at the KK Park complex, a site accused of serving as a major base for online fraud and illegal gambling along the border between Myanmar and Thailand.
January 13, 2026 | 11:51 pm PT
Cambodia to liquidate Prince Bank founded by accused cyberfraud kingpin Chen Zhi

Cambodia to liquidate Prince Bank founded by accused cyberfraud kingpin Chen Zhi

A Cambodian bank founded by accused scam boss Chen Zhi, who has been indicted by the United States over multibillion-dollar fraud and extradited to China, was ordered liquidated Thursday, Cambodia's central bank said.
January 8, 2026 | 12:47 am PT
From child trafficking survivor to tech millionaire: Chinese woman’s journey home

From child trafficking survivor to tech millionaire: Chinese woman’s journey home

Zeng Youdi, a 43-year-old entrepreneur from central China, turned her childhood as a trafficking victim into a success story, building a multimillion-dollar electronics business and reconnecting with her biological family.
December 7, 2025 | 02:27 am PT
South Korean fugitives who tricked men with deepfake romance scam arrested in Vietnam

South Korean fugitives who tricked men with deepfake romance scam arrested in Vietnam

Three South Korean fugitives accused of running a deepfake-driven romance scam network have been arrested in Da Nang, ending a months-long chase across Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.
December 5, 2025 | 12:33 am PT
Chinese influencer arrested in Cambodia over alleged human trafficking ties

Chinese influencer arrested in Cambodia over alleged human trafficking ties

A Chinese social-media influencer who reportedly vanished after flying to Cambodia to "meet her boyfriend" has been arrested on suspicion of taking part in an online fraud and human-trafficking ring, Cambodian authorities say.
November 21, 2025 | 12:41 am PT
Chinese national who became Philippines mayor using fake identity gets life for running trafficking ring

Chinese national who became Philippines mayor using fake identity gets life for running trafficking ring

A Philippine court on Thursday sentenced Alice Guo, a Chinese national who became a mayor while masquerading as a Filipina, and seven others to life in prison on human trafficking charges, state prosecutors said.
November 19, 2025 | 10:12 pm PT
Singapore seizes record 35.7 kg rhino horn haul in $870,000 smuggling bust

Singapore seizes record 35.7 kg rhino horn haul in $870,000 smuggling bust

Singapore has seized over US$800,000 worth of illegal rhino horn and animal parts hidden in air cargo bound for Laos, authorities said Tuesday, in the largest haul of its kind discovered in the city-state.
November 18, 2025 | 11:45 pm PT
Hundreds flee Myanmar scam compound for Thailand after military raid

Hundreds flee Myanmar scam compound for Thailand after military raid

More than 600 people fled one of Myanmar's most notorious scam centers and crossed into Thailand, a Thai provincial official told AFP on Thursday, after a military raid on the compound.
October 22, 2025 | 09:53 pm PT
Vietnam welcomes US acknowledgment of anti-trafficking efforts

Vietnam welcomes US acknowledgment of anti-trafficking efforts

Vietnam welcomes the U.S.'s objective assessment of its positive results in combating and preventing human trafficking over the past period, said Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang.
October 16, 2025 | 03:42 pm PT
South Korea on alert as 80 citizens go missing in Cambodia amid scam center crisis

South Korea on alert as 80 citizens go missing in Cambodia amid scam center crisis

Eighty South Koreans who were possible victims of fake jobs or scam centers were unaccounted for in Cambodia, South Korea's foreign ministry told AFP Tuesday.
October 14, 2025 | 12:52 am PT
South Korea, Cambodia strengthen cooperation in combating online fraud, illegal detention

South Korea, Cambodia strengthen cooperation in combating online fraud, illegal detention

South Korea and Cambodia have held talks on enhancing consular support and investigative capacity to combat crimes targeting Korean citizens, said the South Korea 's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
October 13, 2025 | 10:08 pm PT
Fake football team busted in Japan as part of human trafficking ring

Fake football team busted in Japan as part of human trafficking ring

A group of 22 men posing as football players was intercepted and deported from Japan after authorities discovered that all their documents were fake.
September 20, 2025 | 06:00 pm PT
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