Brian Mast (R-FL) and John Moolenaar (R-MI) have requested probes into 28 people and entities allegedly connected to scam gangs in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

Cambodian beach resort Sihanoukville boomed as a global hub for online fraud. A sweeping crackdown has left its economy struggling to pick up the pieces.

Trump's $1.3 trillion promise would heavily increase national debt, already at a historic $40 trillion.

As part of President Trump’s mission to combat cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes against American citizens, the United States is sanctioning Xinbi Guarantee—a Chinese-language platform used ext...

Dislodged from Cambodian compounds, cyberscam cartels have been setting up shop in Laos, Myanmar and even Malaysia.

President Donald Trump left countless onlookers aghast Sunday after publishing three dozen bizarre online posts in the span of two hours, one of which suggested the United States owned the moon.“Somet...

The Republican party received a stark warning on CNN Sunday morning as a group of political experts tried to figure out which exactly was Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's biggest problem. Paxton's ...

Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove warned that President Donald Trump's plan to headline the midterms himself will backfire on the GOP.In a Wednesday op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Rove laid ...

President Donald Trump erupted the moment an aide handed him a printout of billionaire Elon Musk's post claiming he was in the Epstein files, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said.Cruz described the scene during ...

A dark web site selling digital scans of millions of drivers’ licences was reported. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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“They are clearing the forest for the reservoir,” said Phan, a resident of O’Soam commune in Cambodia’s western province of Pursat. “These days, every few days, there is only one timber truck because ...

Cambodia’s scam economy is transforming border towns and rural areas, reshaping jobs, land ownership, local development and the environment.

During his speech at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas on Friday, President Donald Trump’s entire body twitched in a manner that one forensic psychologist argued was consistent with what’s known as...

President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that he caused the intensifying trade war between the U.S. and Canada after he added conditions to the talks at the 11th hour. Trump spoke briefly with CNN's...

Trump weighed approximately 238 pounds in May – 14 pounds more than last year and 23 pounds more than the 215 pounds he weighed three years ago

President Donald Trump's saga with his devoted aide Natalie Harp may come to a perilous end, one ex-GOP strategist predicted on Sunday. Rick Wilson, founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln ...

"Summer time." Few phrases bring out the kid in all of us quite like it — no school, shorts and flip-flops, languidly lounging around lakes, novels so bad you can't put them down, flowers, vacation, v...

Cambodian and U.S. anti-drug agencies have uncovered a network that authorities say uses cryptocurrency to launder money for Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cartel, officials from both countries said Fr…

Khe Hy, Founder, LaTour AI — As intelligence becomes commoditized, unique context becomes the ultimate differentiator—and the most valuable context is the kind that happens between golf rounds, not de...

Trump isn’t an openly declared isolationist, but he has no respect for, nor appreciation of, America’s alliances and insults our allies regularly.

Hui Ka Yan’s punishment caps the downfall of a property empire whose collapse set off a prolonged crisis in the Chinese economy.

Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption

War with Thailand pushed Cambodia to enact a sweeping scam crackdown. Now the ruling elite is leveraging the same crackdown to consolidate its political control.

The US president has already paid the writer over $5m in damages in the assault and defamation case.

The erosion of checks and balances in Cambodia has created a permissive environment that has allowed transnational crime, including online scam centres, to flourish, writes Bopha Phorn.

President Donald Trump's anxiety is mounting as he faces a post-Trump age and could respond with a fresh crisis, warned a Wall Street Journal columnist.In an opinion column published on Thursday, cons...

The decision marks a blow to Trump’s attacks against the oldest university in the United States. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Donald Trump is losing Karoline Leavitt, and one columnist surmised Thursday he may soon lose far more than his press secretary.In a pointed opinion piece for The I Paper, political editor J...

The president has not been looking well. Americans should get answers to these seven questions.

An Israeli-made surveillance drone has proved it can keep working even when the satellite navigation system it normally relies on gets jammed, a capability that could matter enormously along a border ...

Executives at Trump Media, the publicly traded company co-founded with President Donald Trump, are going to have some explaining to do as site traffic plunges at an alarming rate.According to the New ...

President Trump is confronting a question that has haunted presidents throughout history: how a war - that has gone on longer than predicted - can reshape a presidency.

President Donald Trump’s latest attack on a Democratic Senate nominee and his wife spurred a wave of rebuke on Sunday by critics who called him a racist and a convicted felon. Trump took to Truth Soci...

Investigative journalism reveals associates of scam kingpin Chen Zhi hold significant assets in Singapore, exposing a global money laundering network. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at strai...

The Republican Party as we’ve known it officially died this week as Acting Attorney General Todd “Trumpsimp” Blanche’s nomination essentially became inevitable. The personal lawyer of a convicted felo...

Former Trump administration official Ty Cobb spoke at length Saturday about what he described as President Donald Trump’s “frontal lobe illness,” the “signals” of which were evident when comparing his...

Cambodian journalist Luot Sophal has been detained for six months in retaliation for his reporting on how water shortages affected Cambodian soldiers during the 2025 border conflict with Thailand. Rep...

The PM has made repression less visible and more sophisticated, strengthening the authoritarian system he inherited.

MANILA - The US State Department and ​the chair of the Association of ‌Southeast Asian Nations on Friday reiterated their calls for the unconditional release of Myanmar's detained former leader A...

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Thai Hom Mali faces widening price pressure in the US as Cambodian jasmine rice sells for about US$800 a tonne and first-half exports fall 19%.

Remember, we’re talking about an experienced federal prosecutor who is about to present felony charges to a grand jury that can affect a person’s life and liberty forever. Did her office do any ind…

Iran. The midterms. Can Trump wriggle out one last time?

A Chinese man has been sentenced to 46 years in prison for the illegal possession of military-grade weapons, C4 explosive, signal-jamming equipment and other prohibited military hardware.

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.

President Donald Trump's "princess of darkness" is privately complaining about his increasing demands for more and larger donations from corporations, according to a new report. The president is in al...

India's Minister of Education, Dharmendra Pradhan, was forced to resign last week due to protests that rocked the country resulting from the ministry's decision to cancel administration of the nationa...

Myanmar follows Beijing’s lead in amending anti-scam laws as crime syndicates shift operations.