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Cyber-scam industry booms in plain sight in Cambodia
Published on 29/08/2023
» PHNOM PHEN: Around the world, reports of cyber-scam schemes targeting unsuspecting victims online have proliferated rapidly. Southeast Asia has become a centre of gravity for those criminal syndicates, often in remote and war-torn corners. But in Cambodia, the scam industry has been flourishing well within the reach of officials.
Freed CIA inmate dreams of new home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/02/2023
» On his first day of freedom, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan prayed without anyone watching him for the first time in two decades.
Islamic State claims blast that kills 5 in Kabul
AFP, Published on 12/01/2023
» KABUL - The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing outside the foreign ministry in Kabul that officials and witnesses said killed at least five people and wounded 40 others.
Rescuers scour gutted Cambodian casino
Published on 30/12/2022
» POIPET, Cambodia: Rescue teams recovered eight bodies on Friday from the charred rooms of a casino-hotel, bringing the known death toll to 27, with more than 20 people still missing.
Relief, caution in Beijing as city lifts Covid dine-in curbs
AFP, Published on 07/06/2022
» BEIJING - After staying home for more than a month, Chen Chunmei joined a long line of customers at a popular Beijing restaurant where diners tucked into massive bowls of crayfish following an easing of Covid restrictions in the Chinese capital.
China building collapse death toll rises to 53
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» BEIJING: Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction.
Eighteen trapped, others missing after China building collapse
AFP, Published on 01/05/2022
» BEIJING - At least 18 people were trapped under a building that collapsed in central China, officials said Saturday, as rescuers pulled apart the rubble brick by brick in an effort to reach survivors.
At least 20 trapped in China building collapse
Published on 30/04/2022
» At least 23 people were trapped under a building that collapsed in central China, officials said on Saturday, as rescuers pulled apart the rubble brick by brick in an effort to reach survivors.
Jerusalem's Christian churches resist Israeli settlers
AFP, Published on 14/04/2022
» JERUSALEM - Churches in Jerusalem are up in arms against Jewish "radicals" who are settling in the Christian Quarter and threatening a fragile religious balance in the ancient Holy City.
Revealed: the craven corruption behind the Myanmar coup
Published on 08/09/2021
» BANGKOK/LONDON: A week after the Burmese military seized power, a Twitter account that had lain dormant for nearly a decade flickered back into life.