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Pyramid of cyber criminals & stolen data at heart of digital arrest scam. They know everything about you

In Part 2 of this two-part series, ThePrint spoke to Pao Pao, a recruiter who said those hired for ‘digital arrest’ scams submit passports and are only allowed to leave compound thrice a week.

A digital arrest kingpin tells all: Chinese syndicates, Cambodian scam farms & the perfect trap

In Part 1 of this two-part series, ThePrint looks at an Alwar man who got involved with Chinese-run ‘digital arrest’ scam farms in Cambodia and ended up recruiting for them in India.

In a first, 540 Indians detained from Cambodian scam farms to be repatriated on 10 March

As many as a thousand people were detained after joint raids by Thai and Cambodian law enforcement agencies from various scam farms over the past week, it is learnt.

ADB Commits $10 Million to End Gender-Based Violence in Cambodia by 2030

New Delhi: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $10 million grant to help Cambodia achieve its goal of zero gender-based violence (GBV)...

Cambodia hails homecoming of Parvati, Shiva & 12 other sculptures from US, looted in Khmer Rouge era

As many as 70 pieces sourced from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, private collectors are now back in Cambodia and on display at PM Manet's office in Phnom Penh.

Vizag techies, MBAs chased visas. Landed in Cambodia’s Chinese-run digital slave camps

Lured by shady recruiters, many young graduates from Vizag are trafficked as foot soldiers in global cyber-crime rings. Their ‘job’: scamming Indians from compounds in Southeast Asia.

Meet the Chinese Army’s newest recruit — a gun-toting ‘robo-dog’ with an automatic rifle on its back

The mechanical canine, showcased at the annual 15-day Golden Dragon 2024 exercise, can move forward and backward, jump, and lie down like real canines.

India, Cambodia sign MOU to boost Civil Service Human Resource Development

The agreement will provide an opportunity for the two governments to strengthen and promote bilateral cooperation in the field of human resource development in civil service for the next five years.

Controversial diplomat Devyani Khobragade appears as ‘Khmer Apsara’ in Cambodian New Year post on X

Khobragade, India’s envoy to Cambodia, was at centre of a diplomatic row between US and India in 2013 after she was arrested on charges of visa fraud, which were later dismissed.

AI-aided sextortion, ‘punishment rooms’ & cyber slaves: Inside Cambodia’s billion-dollar scam industry

New Delhi/Bengaluru: Walls as high as 15 ft run into every direction. Men armed with tasers and batons are on guard 24/7 to apprehend...

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India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.