Cambodia is drafting a law targeting online scams, seeking to build a bulwark against criminals using the country as a base to siphon billions of dollars from victims globally.

Cambodia is drafting a law targeting online scams, seeking to build a bulwark against criminals using the country as a base to siphon billions of dollars from victims globally.

Since the turn of the century, election night has usually been great for pro-democracy reformers and miserable for Thailand’s royalists. Now the establishment has finally backed a winner, and the country may see some stability as a result.

Since the turn of the century, election night has usually been great for pro-democracy reformers and miserable for Thailand’s royalists. Now the establishment has finally backed a winner, and the country may see some stability as a result.

Thailand’s ruling conservative party clinched a surprisingly solid election win Sunday, marking the first victory this century for a party aligned with the country’s royalist establishment and a clear defeat for an emerging progressive movement.

Thailand’s ruling conservative party clinched a surprisingly solid election win Sunday, marking the first victory this century for a party aligned with the country’s royalist establishment and a clear defeat for an emerging progressive movement.

Thai voters headed to the polls on Sunday in what is seen as a three-cornered contest, with most pre-poll surveys signaling a fractured mandate that could trigger a fresh bout of political paralysis.

Bangkok’s royalist establishment is looking to Newin Chidchob to help fend off pro-democracy reformers and form a government in the Feb. 8 election.

Bangkok’s royalist establishment is looking to Newin Chidchob to help fend off pro-democracy reformers and form a government in the Feb. 8 election.

By 2017, Myanmar’s military had allegedly killed thousands of Muslim Rohingya, a massacre now being pursued as genocide at the International Court of Justice. A central figure accused of fanning the violence is one of the country’s most powerful monks, once dubbed the “Face of Buddhist Terror” on the cover of Time magazine.

Voters in Myanmar began casting ballots Sunday in the third and final phase of a tightly controlled general election that’s expected to deliver an overwhelming victory to the military’s proxy party amid continuing civil conflict and international rejection.

A US warship docked at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base on Saturday for a five-day visit, signaling a continued thaw in military relations after years of tension over access to the strategic port in the Gulf of Thailand.

Singapore’s main opposition party said it will not nominate a replacement leader of the opposition after Pritam Singh was stripped of the title last week by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong following a conviction for lying to a parliamentary committee.

Myanmar voters returned to the polls in military-controlled areas on Sunday for the second phase of an election organized by the ruling junta, a process rejected by several western governments and rights groups as lacking legitimacy.

The US has pledged funding to help strengthen the ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia as it seeks to deepen engagement in a conflict where China has also sought to play mediator.

Singapore lawmakers are poised to debate if Pritam Singh should remain Leader of the Opposition when Parliament meets next week after his conviction for lying to a parliamentary committee.

Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol said his country wants to “lower the temperature” in its dispute with Thailand to protect a fragile ceasefire and pushed back against Bangkok’s assertions that the clash was a battle against scam centers operating over the border.

A US delegation will visit Cambodia in the coming days to help fortify a fragile ceasefire with Thailand, the Southeast Asian nation’s top diplomat said.

A US delegation will visit Cambodia in the coming days to help fortify a fragile ceasefire with Thailand, the Southeast Asian nation’s top diplomat said.

After striking Venezuela, the US president signaled he’ll apply his foreign policy approach elsewhere, speculating about Cuba and Greenland as places he wants to “help.”