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Cambodia preparing ambitious anti-scam law

Bloomberg News, Published on 12/02/2026

» Cambodia is drafting a law targeting online scams, seeking to build a bulwark against criminals using the country as a base to siphon billions of dollars from victims globally.

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Move on, says Trump as Epstein files trigger probe into British politician

AFP, Published on 04/02/2026

» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - US President Donald Trump made a fresh plea Tuesday for Americans to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, even as it left a prominent British politician facing a criminal probe on the other side of the Atlantic.

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Latest Epstein file dump rocks UK royals, politics

AFP, Published on 03/02/2026

» LONDON — Britain's former prince Andrew, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and a former UK ambassador to Washington were on Monday thrust back into the eye of the Jeffrey Epstein storm, as shocking emails with the late sex offender rocked political and royal circles.

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Iranian jet fuel keeps Myanmar bombers flying

Gavin Finch and Devjyot Ghoshal, Reuters, Published on 27/01/2026

» The first bomb to strike the remote village of Vanha in western Myanmar came from a junta warplane. It hit the only school in the hamlet, near the frontline of the civil war. The second came from a drone minutes later.

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Why China was so keen to get to alleged cybercrime boss Chen Zhi first

South China Morning Post, Published on 27/01/2026

» When a film about an investigation into a phone scam in Cambodia debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018, it was not the cast or the plot that drew attention in China.

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Fraudsters flee Cambodia's 'scam city' after accused boss taken down

AFP, Published on 16/01/2026

» SIHANOUKVILLE (CAMBODIA) - Hundreds of people dragged away suitcases, computer monitors, pets and furniture as they fled a suspected Cambodian cyberfraud centre, after the country's most wanted alleged scam kingpin was arrested and deported.

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Who is Chen Zhi, the young tycoon accused of running global cyber scams?

Reuters, Published on 09/01/2026

» Chinese-Cambodian ‍businessman Chen Zhi's arrest ‍and extradition to ‍China this week marked a stunning fall for a young tycoon accused of running a brutal online scam and money laundering operation.

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Cambodia arrests alleged scam kingpin Chen Zhi

News Agencies and Online Reporters, Published on 07/01/2026

» The Chinese-born tycoon Chen Zhi, accused of running online scam centres that used trafficked workers in Cambodia to defraud people around the world of billions of dollars, has been arrested in Cambodia and extradited to China, Phnom Penh said on Wednesday.

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US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker

Reuters, 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.

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Lid lifted on Hong Kong bid-rigging rackets

South China Morning Post, Published on 24/12/2025

» Raphael Chan entered Hong Kong’s construction industry in the mid-1990s convinced that quality building work could improve people’s lives. But he quit more than two decades later, disillusioned by what he called rampant corruption in the industry.