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WORLD

China keeps pressure on Cambodia to target cross-border fraud and trafficking

Published on 19/01/2026

» Beijing is urging Phnom Penh to broaden its crackdown on Cambodia's online fraud industry, keeping up pressure following the arrest and extradition to China of alleged fraud kingpin Chen Zhi.

WORLD

US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker

Published on 07/01/2026

» The United States seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was being shadowed by a Russian submarine ​on Wednesday, after a two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic as part of a US blockade of Venezuelan oil exports, two US officials told Reuters.

WORLD

Trump: US reaches deal for $2bn in Venezuelan oil

Published on 07/01/2026

» Caracas and Washington have reached a deal ​to export up to $2 billion worth of Venezuelan crude oil to the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, which would divert supplies from China while helping Venezuela avoid deeper oil production cuts.

WORLD

Venezuelan parliament swears in interim president after Maduro's ouster

AFP, Published on 06/01/2026

» CARACAS - Venezuela's parliament swore in Delcy Rodriguez as interim president on Monday, two days after US forces seized her predecessor Nicolas Maduro to face trial in New York.

WORLD

Venezuela's Maduro in custody, Trump says US will run the country

Reuters, Published on 04/01/2026

» CARACAS/NEW YORK - Venezuelan President Nicolas ‌Maduro was in a New York detention center on Sunday after President Donald Trump ordered an ​audacious U.S. raid to capture the South American leader and take control of the country and its vast oil reserves.

THAILAND

Police imposters arrested for abducting Chinese man for ransom

Online Reporters, Published on 31/12/2025

» Two men have been arrested on charges of posing as policemen and kidnapping a Chinese man for 2-million-baht ransom in Greater Bangkok.

OPINION

A year of shocks, but Thailand endures

News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 30/12/2025

» The year 2025 is not just your typical annus horribilis. Some may say that an appropriate term to describe the year is "hell on earth," or narok bon din in Thai, when many bad things happen all at once.

OPINION

Exit the Snake, enter the Horse

News, Published on 30/12/2025

» As we bid farewell to 2025, and welcome 2026 -- and soon, the lunar Year of the Horse -- we once again highlight the winners and losers of the year gone by in Asia.

WORLD

US launches Christmas Day strikes on IS targets in Nigeria

AFP, Published on 26/12/2025

» PALM BEACH (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump said US forces conducted "powerful and deadly" strikes Thursday against Islamic State militants in northwestern Nigeria, weeks after he warned against any systemic assault on Christians in the country.

WORLD

Nigerian government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren

AFP, Published on 22/12/2025

» ABUJA - Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said Sunday, after 100 were freed earlier this month.