Why Scam Centers in Southeast Asia Keep Flourishing
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Why Scam Centers in Southeast Asia Keep Flourishing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There are usually no international flights out of the airport in Mae Sot, a town on Thailand’s border with Myanmar. But in recent days, hundreds of people here boarded direct flights back home to China. They had been rescued from Myanmar, where they…

How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze
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How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down. In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers. In Ukraine, residents on…

Footage shows daring rescue of foreign tourists as ferry sinks into ocean off Cambodia
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Footage shows daring rescue of foreign tourists as ferry sinks into ocean off Cambodia

Dramatic video shows 18 tourists being rescued off a rickety ferry as it sank off the coast of Cambodia. The boat began sinking at 4 p.m. on Thursday near Daem Thkov, a remote fishing village on the southwestern shore of the idyllic island of Koh Rong, the Khmer Times reported….

Cambodia starts work on canal linking Mekong River to sea | Environment News

Cambodia starts work on canal linking Mekong River to sea | Environment News

Phnom Penh says $1.7bn project economic as Vietnam worries it could be used by Chinese warships. Cambodia has launched a controversial canal project to link the Mekong River to the sea. Work on the $1.7bn project kicked off on Monday. Phnom Penh hopes the canal will boost the country’s economy….

Stolen Cambodian artefacts returned from New York museum | Arts and Culture

Stolen Cambodian artefacts returned from New York museum | Arts and Culture

NewsFeed Over a dozen stolen artefacts were returned to Cambodia from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Buddhist and other religious antiquities date back as far as the 7th century and were originally stolen by British art dealer and accused smuggler Douglas Latchford, who died in 2020. Published On…

As Cambodia launches .6bn building drive, China, Japan fight for spoils | Infrastructure

As Cambodia launches $36.6bn building drive, China, Japan fight for spoils | Infrastructure

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Cambodia is pushing for an infrastructural renaissance, but it will need some help from its friends abroad to chip away at an estimated price tag of $36.6bn. That was the final sum calculated by the Cambodian government and published earlier this year in a 174-project master…