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Early last month, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, the special climate envoys representing the United States and China, held talks in southern California ahead of the Xi-Biden summit. The location—Sunnylands, a desert estate near Palm Springs—was…

The Climate Envoys Who Could

While deliverables are likely to be modest, Wednesday’s meeting could yield progress on shared priorities. For the first time in a year, Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden will meet face-to-face this Wednesday. The meeting,…

What to Expect From the Xi-Biden Meeting

In a major turning point for the world, China’s fossil fuel use is projected to decline starting in 2025. My FP: Follow topics and authors to get straight to what you like. Exclusively for FP subscribers. Subscribe Now | Log In 2024 may be remembered…

China May Soon Hit Peak Coal

At this week’s summit to celebrate Xi’s signature initiative, the headwinds facing it were clear. Chinese President Xi Jinping gathered world leaders at a high-level summit in Beijing on Wednesday to usher in the next phase of his signature Belt and…

The Belt and Road Ahead

Beijing’s “pro-Palestinian neutrality” could help in mediating the conflict. After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, there was a clear contrast in the reactions from the world’s two superpowers. In the following days, U.S. President Joe Biden…

The Israel-Hamas War Is Testing China’s Diplomatic Strategy

A recent book makes the case for collaboration in an increasingly competitive industry. Scientists project that the world will likely cross over the 1.5 degrees Celsius redline set under the Paris Agreement in the next few years, unleashing more…

Can the U.S. and China Cooperate on Green Technology Again?

China’s EV industry is ascendant everywhere—except the U.S. Is that about to change? In July, the electric car company Polestar unveiled a new dealership just blocks away from the White House in Washington, D.C. At the opening event, D.C. Mayor…

Chinese-Made Electric Cars Arrive Stateside

A recent report on the solar industry’s connections to Xinjiang shows mixed results. For years, American consumers unwittingly bought products from T-shirts to solar panels sourced from Xinjiang, where researchers have found that the Chinese…

Has the U.S. Campaign Against Uyghur Forced Labor Been Successful?

Tim Cook and Bill Gates are welcome; for some other Americans it’s not so clear Last month China’s President Xi Jinping wrote glowingly about U.S.-China “friendship” in a letter to a group of Americans with historical ties to China. It was a warm…

China Puts Out Welcome Mat for Some Americans, Keeps Door Shut for Others 

China’s foreign minister hasn’t been seen in public for 12 days, leading to speculation that one of Beijing’s most senior officials has undisclosed health issues. Qin Gang, a former Chinese ambassador to the U.S., had his last official engagement on…

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang Hasn’t Been Seen in 12 Days

The controversial comments came as the U.S. strengthens ties with Japan and South Korea China’s top diplomat has been criticized for remarks he made during a summit with Japan and South Korea, which appeared to call for solidarity based on racial…

China’s Top Diplomat Under Fire After Race-based Appeal to Japan and South Korea

Climate change is bringing more extreme heat to China – along with health and economic risks Beijing’s thermostat hit a June record last Thursday: 106 degrees. Cities throughout the region saw similar highs, and after a few days of minor relief the…

China’s Scorching June Sparks Fears of a ‘Sauna’ Summer and Economic Pain

On Wednesday, the Chinese government gave domestic electric vehicle makers their latest leg-up in a decade-long campaign to dominate the new industry. Under a new policy rolled out by the Ministry of Finance and two other agencies, most Chinese…

China and the US Double Down in Electric Vehicle Race 

The public reporting of the names of three researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology who were hospitalized in November 2019 has reignited speculation online that the coronavirus pandemic began with a lab leak. There’s no evidence that the…

Who Is Ben Hu, the Chinese Scientist at the Center of Renewed COVID Lab Leak Speculation?

In the last three weeks, the U.S. and China have had two uncomfortably close encounters. On May 30, the Pentagon released a video showing a Chinese fighter jet flying so close to a U.S. military plane that the American aircraft was left bouncing in…

Close Encounters Highlight Need for US-China Crisis Communication

'Glory to Hong Kong' has been targeted as a national security threat Hong Kong protesters belted out the song on the streets, in shopping malls and in sports stadiums as part of mass protests against Chinese rule that began in 2019. Now – four years…

Why is Hong Kong’s Protest Anthem Disappearing from ITunes, Spotify and Other Platforms?

China issued a harsh response to a report that the U.S. is preparing evacuation plans for American citizens in Taiwan, saying the U.S. is intent on "the destruction of Taiwan" and comparing the situation to past American departures from Iraq, Syria…

Taiwan and China Respond to Messenger Report on US Evacuation Planning in Taiwan

The National Security Council responded Monday to a report in The Messenger that the U.S. is preparing contingency plans for the possible evacuation of American citizens from Taiwan. In the report, published earlier Monday, sources said the war in…

White House on Messenger Taiwan Report:  ‘Procedures’ in Place Worldwide for Americans in Event of ‘Emergency’

Wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan hang over planning for worst-case scenarios The U.S. government is preparing evacuation plans for American citizens living in Taiwan, three sources told The Messenger. The planning has been underway for at least six…

The US Is Preparing Evacuation Plans for American Citizens in Taiwan (Exclusive)

The U.S. has sold Taiwan more than 200 F-16s and trained more than 500 of the island's Air Force personnel Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Taiwanese officials have studied the war for lessons that might apply to a potential Chinese…

How Quickly Can Ukrainians Learn to Fly F-16s? Ask Taiwan

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Jon Stewart will return to The Daily Show as executive producer and Monday-night host, the Paramount Global network announced. “Jon Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to…

Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ Through 2024 Election

The far-right agitator behind notorious anti-LGBTQ social media account “Libs of TikTok”—who responded gleefully to reports this fall that her posts had inspired bomb threats in nearly two dozen U.S. states—will now be deciding what public school…

‘Libs of TikTok’ Creator Now Advising Oklahoma School Libraries

A Boeing 747 cargo plane was forced to turn back to Miami International Airport on Thursday night when an engine failed shortly after takeoff, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The Atlas Air jumbo jet “experienced #2 engine failure…

Sparks Go Flying From Boeing 747 After Mid-Air Engine Failure

Roda Osman insisted to The Daily Beast that she’s telling the truth, while cops say her ever-changing story is fully undercut by eyewitnesses and video evidence. A woman who went viral as the “Brick Lady” after claiming she was attacked by a…

Viral ‘Brick Lady’ Accused of Fabricating Attack Claims for GoFundMe Scam

The billionaire allegedly then arranged for the young women to meet Harvey Weinstein, who also sexually assaulted her, according to a bombshell federal lawsuit. Reporter Updated Jan. 17, 2024 10:56PM EST / Published Jan. 16, 2024 5:09PM EST A former…

Glenn Frey’s Ex-Massage Therapist Accuses ‘Brutish’ Knicks Owner James Dolan of Sexual Assault

Nadine Menendez, who is fighting federal corruption charges alongside husband Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)—a man who allegedly appreciates a fine watch, an envelope stuffed with cash, and the odd gold bar—doesn’t believe she’ll get a fair trial if she…

Bob Menendez and Wife Ask for Separate Trials Over Federal Charges

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab behind wildly popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, won’t let its technology be used for political campaigning or lobbying until researchers can get a better handle on the possible vectors for abuse and…

OpenAI Is Banning Politicians From Using ChatGPT in Campaigns

Nancy Jones Doering says she was cleared of any wrongdoing, but that colleagues and district officials continue to persecute her “because of her race.” A white Long Island, New York public school teacher accused of displaying a racially offensive…

New York Teacher Accused of Racist Noose Pic Claims Anti-White Racism

The 32-year-old allegedly promised incarcerated mass shooter Brenton Tarrant he would “carry on the fight for our people.” An avowed white supremacist in suburban St. Louis came under federal investigation after sending a glowing fan letter to…

Christchurch Gunman Fanboy Lands in Feds’ Crosshairs

Flamenco Vivo’s co-founder—who is white—allegedly discriminated against employees of color, and touted the “benefits” of colonization. Over the past 40 years, Carlota Santana has been lauded as “The Keeper of Flamenco,” was honored by the government…

Famed NYC Flamenco Dance Group Accused of Rampant Racism

First son Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court on Thursday to three felony counts and six misdemeanors over his alleged failure to pay at least $1.4 million in federal income tax. He is accused of stiffing the government for…

Hunter Biden Pleads Not Guilty to Tax Charges in L.A. Federal Court

A first-time flier is facing federal charges after allegedly asking two flight attendants if they wanted to join the “mile high club,” yanking one of them into his seat, mid-air, before asking unnerving “questions related to entering the aircraft…

First-Time Flier Terrorizes Attendants With ‘Mile High Club’ Invitations, Feds Say

The employee also said the company’s top executives fashioned themselves after convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort, the real-life “Wolf of Wall Street.” A Long Island, New York, financial advisory firm is a “boiling, alcohol-fueled sexual cauldron,”…

Employee’s Lawsuit Calls Financial Firm ‘Alcohol-Fueled Sexual Cauldron’

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently underwent a prostatectomy, “to treat and cure prostate cancer,” according to a statement issued Tuesday afternoon by the Walter Reed National Medical Center. The cancer was first detected in early December,…

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Has Prostate Cancer, Doctors Say

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has inked a “content partnership” with ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon, who will “share his unique and honest voice in 30 minute episodes, three times a week, covering politics, culture, sports and…

Don Lemon, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jim Rome Ink Deals With X

Rep. Greg Pence (R-IN), former Vice President Mike Pence’s older brother, will retire at the end of his term, the self-described “unwavering pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and faith-driven conservative” announced Tuesday. “In 2017, I ran for…

Mike Pence’s Brother Joins Republicans Retiring From Congress

An Arizona man charged last month over his alleged vows to “execute every single FBI agent and employee, including the maintenance staff,” among other violent threats to public officials, had several powerful firearms and some 5,000 rounds of…

Right-Wing Sicko Behind Violent Threats Had Thousands of Ammo Rounds, Feds Say

The Department of Justice on Friday issued a press release touting the success of the government’s “enhanced background checks,” highlighting two instances of gun buyers turned down for having been committed to psychiatric hospitals. But even the…

A Bullet in a GOP Office, a Psych Patient, and a Gun Loophole

An unnamed FBI supervisor subjected a subordinate to “an inappropriate sexual and religious joke and gesture in the workplace,” according to the Justice Department’s internal watchdog. An investigative summary released Tuesday by the DOJ Office of…

FBI Official Harassed Underling With Creepy Crude ‘Joke,’ Watchdog Finds

“This is not a decision I came to easily. Indeed, it has been difficult beyond words,” she said. Besieged Harvard President Claudine Gay is stepping down, she announced Tuesday afternoon. “It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I…

Embattled Harvard President Announces ‘Difficult’ Decision to Step Down

Some books are easy, reassuring reads: They offer self-improvement tips, reinforce our preconceptions or make even the most complicated matters seem simple. Alex Mar’s “Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy” is the opposite kind of…

The story of Paula Cooper, who was put on death row at age 16

WALK THE WALK: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture, by Neil Gross When it comes to policing, this is no country for optimists: Few Americans seem to believe in the promise of reform. On the left, police abolitionists…

These Police Chiefs Are Working to Change Perceptions

In the waning days of the Trump administration, top U.S. military leaders reportedly worried that an unstable and erratic president might launch a nuclear strike or start an unprovoked war with China. Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs…

Milley’s calls reflect a crisis. But it’s not a military crisis.

In the last month, the Delta variant has driven up the number of new Covid cases by tens of thousands, thrown America’s pandemic response back into chaos and jeopardized the nation’s fragile economic recovery. In light of this, you might think that…

Competence Is Critical for Democracy. Let’s Redefine It.

Say the words “Secret Service,” and — thanks to countless television and Hollywood dramas — it’s a safe bet that nearly every American will instantly summon up the image of a clean-cut, watchful agent in a dark suit, murmuring discreetly into a small…

The ‘frat boy culture’ of the Secret Service

During the four years I spent as a reserve police officer in Washington, I encountered plenty of stereotypes about the poor. The residents of D.C.’s lowest-income neighborhoods, I was informed by one young officer, were “just messed up.” They were…

What you think you know about poverty is probably wrong

“Everyone you meet here would be happy to kill you,” Officer Murphy told me.“That’s what you have to remember.”
It was my first night as a patrol officer, and Murphy was showing me the ropes.
“Everyone? You think even the little old ladies here want…

Op-Ed: Any situation can turn lethal in an instant, and other lessons I learned at the police academy

In the middle of former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took time out to draft legislation giving Congressional Gold Medals to the U.S. Capitol Police and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. Pelosi…

The last year showed Americans that the police aren’t always heroes or villains

Call it a coup, an insurrection, a riot, a siege: Whatever else Wednesday’s brief takeover of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump extremists looked like, it was also a profound failure of policing. Despite the presence of both Vice President Pence and…

No one watches the Capitol Police closely. No wonder they failed.

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If Joe Biden chooses a woman as his secretary of defense, he would send an important and long overdue message.
Ms. Brooks is a co-founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security and the author of “How Everything Became War…

It’s Time for a Woman to Run the Defense Department

President Trump spent this past week casting doubt on any electoral outcome that didn’t end with his reelection. On Tuesday night, he declared himself the winner and alleged baselessly (as he has done countless times in recent months) that a win by…

Americans knew Trump would lie about fraud. Now it won’t work.

Not satisfied by tear gas, rubber bullets and threats to use “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” against citizens protesting racism and police violence, President Trump threatened Monday night to send the U.S. military into any cities where local…

Trump wants to crush Black Lives Matter with a law that fought segregation

hat new insights does Bob Woodward's latest book, Rage, offer? We learn that President Donald Trump is not the sharpest tool in the shed; members of his cabinet consider him a narcissistic fool, devoid of empathy and incapable of distinguishing…

Rage: Bob Woodward’s book makes you feel like an insider in Trump’s shocking world

What new insights does Bob Woodward’s latest book, “Rage,” offer? We learn that President Trump is not the sharpest tool in the shed; members of his Cabinet consider him a narcissistic fool, devoid of empathy and incapable of distinguishing between…

Woodward’s ‘Rage’ is a damning account of Trump’s cowering sycophants and enablers

We wanted to know: What’s the worst thing that could happen to our country during the presidential election? President Trump has broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office, and while my colleagues and I at the…

The election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis

The countless recent images of police officers facing off against protesters consistently show one thing: men. You’ll see policemen in helmets and gas masks, policemen with batons and riot shields, policemen with Tasers and tear gas canisters. But no…

One reason for police violence? Too many men with badges.

Updated at 9:56 a.m. ET on August 12, 2020.
When I entered the Washington, D.C., police academy in 2016 as a recruit officer in the district’s volunteer police reserve corps, I quickly discovered that I was joining a paramilitary organization. My…

Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military

Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University, where she co-directs the Innovative Policing Program. Her forthcoming book, “Tangled Up in Blue,” is about her time as a reserve police officer in Washington, D.C.
No one warned me, before I…

Police officers nationwide need to consider going hands-off during this crisis

Journalistic power couple Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn begin their latest book, “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” with an epigraph from Dr. Seuss:
This bit of wisdom comes from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” and it seems a puzzling…

For working-class Americans, disaster is only a misstep away

The year ahead will be no ordinary year.
One year from now, barring historically unusual scenarios, we will know the results of the 2020 election, and who will be the next president of the United States.
But the election is not all that’s at stake.…

The Next 12 Months Will Decide the Future of the American Experiment

It’s 2017. The 20-somethings milling about Soho are wearing “The Future Is Female” T-shirts and coveting a membership in the women’s-only co-working space the Wing. They carry pink Bubble Wrap pouches inside their Madewell work totes, where they…

How Glossier’s Sheen Wore Off

Ads for gold coins have become a mainstay on Fox News, Newsmax and other conservative outlets, even as regulators have accused some companies of defrauding elderly clients Dedicated viewers of Fox News are probably familiar with Lear Capital, a Los…

How right-wing news powers the ‘gold IRA’ industry 

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Mommy influencers make it look easy even though we know it’s not. So why can’t we look away? ‘Momfluenced’ author Sara Petersen…

Why Are We So Obsessed with Momfluencers?

I lied on the OkCupid questionnaire. It was 2015 — peak “cool girl” era — and I wanted to be seen as chill and laid back, which I decidedly am not. The questionnaire asked something along the lines of whether you were mellow or neurotic, and…

Before There Was Tinder

The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is causing a worrying side effect: Patients in states that have enacted abortion bans are reporting that pharmacies have refused to fill prescriptions for drugs that could impact a pregnancy if the…

What to Do If a Pharmacy Denies Your Meds Because They May End Pregnancy

Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Before war forced her to flee Ukraine, Myroslava Marchenko worked as an OB/GYN at a private clinic in Kyiv. Her first question to a new patient was always, “How do you feel about this…

Pregnant Ukrainian Refugees Struggle to Get Abortion Care

Callers make fake pitches and empty promises in quick bid for your cash Before the days of the internet, the shady phone call offering you an irresistible investment opportunity likely came from a large suburban office in the U.S., with dozens of…

Overseas Call Centers Bombard People They Target for Fraud

Quienes llaman hacen propuestas falsas y promesas vacías en un rápido intento de robar tu dinero. GETTY IMAGES/AARP Antes de que hubiera internet, la turbia llamada telefónica que te ofrecía una irresistible oportunidad de inversión probablemente…

Los centros de llamadas fraudulentas en el extranjero hostigan a sus posibles víctimas

Poles quickly banded together to help those fleeing the violence of the Russian invasion. But as the war drags on, strains on resources and goodwill are starting to show. A slower day at a reception point for refugees located in a community sports…

Inside Poland’s Massive and Messy Effort to Aid Ukrainian Refugees

After the Russian invasion that few believed would actually happen erupted just outside its eastern border, Poland scrambled to organize relief for the more than 2 million Ukrainians who have sought refuge in the country. The border town of…

Architect Shigeru Ban’s designs are giving Ukrainian refugees some much-needed privacy

Marina, a 28-year-old puppet theater actor from Kyiv, Ukraine, grabbed what she could hold in her hands when she was fleeing her home in early March, following the Russian invasion of her country. She came to Warsaw, Poland, with her dog, a backpack,…

For Ukrainian refugees in Poland, these free stores have become a lifeline

In a small Polish town in September last year, a 30-year-old woman named Izabela checked into the hospital. She was 22 weeks pregnant with her second child, and her water had just broken prematurely. Her life was in danger, but instead of aborting…

Where Democracy Falters, So Do Reproductive Rights

Los delincuentes aprovechan los tiempos difíciles para desvalijar a los ansiosos. Los estafadores saben que las personas no suelen pensar con claridad cuando están asustadas. Por ello, muchos de ellos consiguen engañar a las posibles víctimas al…

Los inversionistas son víctimas del fraude de metales preciosos durante la pandemia

Scam artists know that when people get scared, they often don’t think straight. That’s why many of them are able to hook potential victims by sketching out a frightening, apocalyptic scenario in their sales pitches: The economy is failing! Global…

Precious Metals Scams Target Investors Amid the Pandemic

These tools will make you look more like the widely admired beauty ideal. But if you use them, you could be disappointing everyone — including yourself. Dating coach Eric Resnick recently had a client send him photos she wanted to use for her dating…

The online dating beauty filter trap

When BeLinda Berry was in graduate school in 2017, she posed nude for a photographer who was a friend of hers. “I was living on my own, exploring my sexuality and my freedom,” she said. The experience was empowering.
The photographer posted the…

The World Hasn’t Figured Out How to Stop ‘Revenge Porn’

Dating online in 2021 is a dizzying virtual buffet of ways to connect with someone. You can give your match a bouquet of digital roses that cost $29.99 to show them you really do care and didn’t just casually swipe on them while sitting on the toilet…

The complete guide to the online dating industry

In the early days of the pandemic, Tinder users, stuck at home, started teleporting themselves en masse into other countries to check out the dating pools far away from home, and maybe engage in some cross-border flirtation. They weren’t physically…

The rise of borderless dating

REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
In the early days of the pandemic, Tinder users, stuck at home, started teleporting themselves en masse into other countries to check out the dating pools far away from home, and maybe engage in some cross-border flirtation.…

How online dating became a lifeline for millions  and a multi billion dollar industry
By Hanna Kozlowska

Buoyed by the tacit approval of China, the resistance in Myanmar is rapidly gaining ground. The ruling military government gambled on protecting the interests of Chinese crime groups over the Chinese state and appears to have overplayed its hand.…

Southeast Asia’s Brewing Refugee Crisis

When Cambodian police intercepted the bus transporting Carla Ramos Miembro and 26 other Filipinos, who had been sold from one cyber slavery operation to another, she thought her nightmare was finally over. Instead, it was the beginning of another…

‘Just as scared’: Cyberscam victims in Cambodia find no freedom in rescue

Phnom Penh’s newest theatre collective, the Lo-Key Theatre Company, returns to the Box Office’s Speakeasy Theatre on Saturday 28 October for a night of new writing – with a surprise twist. The idea behind these events is to showcase several short…

Two Plays, One Show: Lo-Key at Speakeasy Theatre

One of Cambodia’s oldest and best-loved radio broadcasters is beefing up its digital presence, both in Khmer and, now, in English too. FM103.5, run by the Women’s Media Centre, has launched a brand new podcast and app that both NGOs and the…

Top Women’s Radio Station Launches Dual-Language Podcast and App

Within days of winning Cambodia’s general election in July, then-Prime Minister Hun Sen announced plans to hand the reins to his son Hun Manet. The succession plan was not a surprise. Hun Sen had deployed authoritarian tactics to hold on to power for…

Hun Sen’s Successor Must Keep Up His Chess Game

After a decade of systematically banning, exiling, imprisoning, and assassinating the opposition, Hun Sen’s Cambodia People’s Party swept the 2023 general election without public protest. It was a half-hearted charade, with the Prime Minister…

‘Nothing But a Ruse’: The Cambodian Elections are Another Assault on Democracy

Marawi, Philippines – In Marawi, on the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines, two rented apartments a few streets apart are perforated with fresh bullet holes. The tenants, who arrived two months ago at the first apartment and last week at…

Top regional ISIL leader killed in Philippines’ ruined Marawi

The walls of the commander’s home are festooned with rifles and flak jackets when we visit last October; souvenirs of a war that ended a little over a year earlier. Just above our heads, where we are seated cross-legged on a semicircle of floor…

Life for Afghans got worse after the Taliban seized power. Now foreign aid is drying up

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—As Afghanistan plummets deeper into a devastating economic crisis, the Taliban have declared a war on drugs that snatches away the sole cash crops relied on by many struggling rural families—opium poppy and ephedra, a plant that…

How the Taliban’s ‘War on Drugs’ Could Backfire

Despite promises by government to eradicate trafficking rings, people are still being sold in Cambodia and forced to run online scams t 3.28am on 29 June 2021, Xu Mingjian crept out of a dorm room inside a gated compound in Sihanoukville, Cambodia,…

Cambodia’s modern slavery nightmare: the human trafficking crisis overlooked by authorities

he first time Seng saw someone jump to their death was from the window of his dorm, in a gated compound where armed guards patrolled outside, making sure no one escaped. But Seng had never spoken to the man he saw die that day; workers weren’t…

Laos’ criminal casino empire: Chinese gangsters suspected of running brothels and online scams, and trafficking humans, animal parts and drugs

Lindsey Kennedy and Nathan Paul Southern report from Bosnia and Herzegovina on the recent General Election and how the country’s complicated past continues to shape present realities “I lost my youth to war,” says Drago, an ethnic Serb Bosnian…

‘After the War, People are Still Very “Us Versus Them”’

By Lindsey Kennedy and Nathan Paul Southern August 21, 2022 — 6.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Every year, Australians of all ages and backgrounds are scammed out of billions of dollars, with fraudsters developing more…

The online scammer targeting you could be trapped in a South-East Asian fraud factory

Inside Southeast Asia’s Casino Scam ArchipelagoSpecial Economic Zones and self-governing statelets across the Mekong region have become conduits for human trafficking on a massive scale.The country records the region's worst score in Transparency…

Southeast Asia corruption

Special Economic Zones and self-governing statelets across the Mekong region have become conduits for human trafficking on a massive scale. Around six months ago, Ekapop Lueangprasert, a local government official and business owner in the Sai Mai…

Inside Southeast Asia’s Casino Scam Archipelago

The Asia Pacific region is the largest and fastest-growing market for gambling in the world. The proliferation of physical and online casinos in South East Asia presents criminal entities with a myriad of opportunities to engage in illicit…

Criminogenic casinos and illicit trade in environmental commodities in South East Asia

COVID-19 travel restrictions decimated the tourism industry worldwide. In South East Asia’s popular casino hubs, the sharp drop in visitor numbers, especially gamblers from China and Thailand, has fostered an alarming new organized crime phenomenon –…

Modern slavery in the Mekong’s casinos

Hybrid UN-Cambodia court has been criticised for its slow pace and lack of convictions, but experts say it forced the country to confront the horrors of its past. After 19 years, hundreds of millions of dollars and just two successful convictions,…

Khmer Rouge Tribunal, helping Cambodians heal, nears end

On the sleeper train from Tashkent to Nukus, a drunk Uzbek army officer wants to know where we’re from. “England” is met with a noncommittal shrug. On hearing “Scotland,” though, his face lights up. “Scotlandia!” he slurs, miming bagpipes.…

Central Asia Is Turning Back to Moscow

Sipping a beer in a Cambodian bar in his denim hotpants and painted nails, Michael Prestidge (he’s long adopted the Western name) is a striking example of the gulf between Myanmar’s youthful, progressive activists and its conservative elders who fill…