Cambodia scam operations

The raid in the Cambodian border town of Poipet follows Bangkok's crackdown on scamming operations along the Thailand-Myanmar border.

The country's experience highlights both the transformative potential of Chinese investment and the challenges that risk undermining Beijing’s credibility.

The suspect was wanted in connection with the high-profile kidnapping of the Chinese actor Wang Xing earlier this month.

China says it is leading regional efforts to crack down on online scamming operations and other transnational criminal activities.

Wang Yi told ASEAN ambassadors that scamming poses “serious threats to the vital interests of citizens from China and other countries.”

As the harms of Cambodia's criminalized political economy ripple outward, governments in the region and further afield must move beyond their muted, incoherent response.

The Singaporean government wants to intervene in the bank accounts of its own citizens but not in the scam industries of neighboring countries.

Cyber-scam compound operators in Cambodia are going to extraordinary lengths to create fake images of Indian police stations in order to obtain credit card numbers.

The region has experienced its share of criminality, but the recent explosion of online scam operations is both quantitatively and qualitatively different.

Tens of thousands of people have been trafficked and abused by the region's scam syndicates, but governments are often reluctant to recognize them as "victims."

Efforts to obscure or de-center state involvement in regional transnational crime are dangerous, because traditional approaches won’t work to counter crime co-perpetrated by states.