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Computers, smartphones and other equipment seized during a raid on a scam center in Kandal province, Cambodia, last year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2026
Cambodia claims its crackdown has halved online scam activity
The Southeast Asian nation is under international pressure to dismantle networks accused of stealing billions annually from people worldwide.
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attends a rally for his political party PDP-Laban's senatorial candidates ahead of the midterm elections in Manila on Feb. 13, 2025.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 25, 2026
Duterte drew up ¡®death lists¡¯ and boasted about murders: ICC prosecutor
Judges will weigh at this week¡¯s ¡°confirmation of charges¡± hearing whether to move ahead with a trial for the former Philippine president
A TV screen broadcasting a news report on the sentencing trial of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's insurrection case, in Seoul, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 19, 2026
Ousted South Korean President Yoon sentenced to life over martial law
The verdict marks the conclusion of one of the most consequential judicial proceedings involving a former South Korean president.
People attend the 'Light Over Darkness' vigil on Dec. 21, honoring the victims and survivors of the deadly mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, in Sydney.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 16, 2026
Alleged Bondi Beach gunman makes first court appearance
Naveed Akram, 24, faces 59 charges over ?the Dec.?14 attack, including 15 counts of murder, ?40 counts ?of wounding with intent to murder and ?a terror offense.
Gurpatwant Sing Pannun, a lawyer at a New York-based group called Sikhs for Justice, in New York in 2023. An Indian man charged in 2023 with orchestrating a failed assassination plot against Pannun plead guilty on Friday in Manhattan.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2026
Indian man pleads guilty in plot to kill Sikh activist
Prosecutors claimed the would-be assassin was part of a group working with the Indian government to target Sikh separatists overseas.
Counterfeit U.S. currency is strewn across the floor inside a compound in O'Smach used for scam operations in Samraong, Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, on Feb. 2.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 11, 2026
Cambodia says it has closed almost 200 scam centers in fraud crackdown
Thousands of scam workers, ?some of them trafficking victims confined in ?brutal conditions, have fled compounds in recent weeks seeking to return home.
Shwe Kokko city, a casino, entertainment, and tourism complex,from Thailand's side of the border after Bangkok said it would suspend electricity supply to some border areas with Myanmar to try to curb scam centers, in the Mae Sot district, Thailand, on Feb. 5, 2025
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 10, 2026
AI helps scam centers evade crackdown in Asia and dupe more victims
Rather than be eradicated, Interpol officials see scam centers as more likely to evolve as artificial intelligence allows operators to scale up at low cost.

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As Japan accelerates AI adoption, policymakers and corporations frame the technology as essential to offsetting a projected labor shortfall of 11 million workers by 2040.
Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.

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