Cambodia’s continued attempts to minimize the extent of cyber-slavery on its territory reflect official complicity, as well as the need to embark on a learning curve that many other countries have yet to master, experts say. A huge volume of media reports concur that trafficking victims are recruited to work in cyber-slavery from China, and … Read more
Myanmar has overtaken Afghanistan as the world’s top producer of opium after the third consecutive year of expanding cultivation, the United Nations said in a new report, attributing the increase to the country’s intensifying conflict. In its annual Southeast Asia Opium Survey, released yesterday, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that the … Read more
Advertisement Cambodia’s government says it will not permit the screening of a hit Chinese action film based on the region’s cyber-scam industry, claiming that it would damage the country’s international reputation. According to a report published yesterday by the local news site Cambodianess, Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has asked the Chinese Embassy … Read more
Advertisement Yesterday, the United Nations Office and Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a report that adds the small but growing corpus of literature on the cancerous cyber-scam operations that continue to metastasize across mainland Southeast Asia. The UNODC report shines a light on the region-wide wave of digital criminality that has arisen in the Mekong … Read more
Reporters view packages of methamphetamines on a table during a press conference at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok, Thailand on July 15, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/File Advertisement The trafficking of synthetic drugs in East and Southeast Asia continues at near-record levels, the United Nations said on Friday, noting the emergence of new smuggling routes … Read more