The US, China & Malaysia, which is the current chair of ASEAN regional bloc, have offered to facilitate dialogue but Bangkok is seeking a bilateral solution to the conflict.
The latest friction was sparked when Thailand Thursday reported spotting a Cambodian drone & armed soldiers near Ta Muen temple. Matter escalated to Thai airstrikes.
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.
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.
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.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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