School assembly news headlines January 9: Top national, international sports & business updatesTop headlines for January 9th cover national news including ED allegations against Mamata Banerjee and a Supreme Court clarification on str...
08 Jan, 2026, 06.01 PM IST
Why Southeast Asia's online scam industry is so hard to shut downA major online scam network leader has been arrested and extradited. This industry has stolen billions globally. Victims are often lured by...
08 Jan, 2026, 02.30 PM IST
Border casinos caught in Thailand-Cambodia crossfireThailand has struck multiple casinos linked to cyberscamming in neighbouring Cambodia during an almost two-week-long border conflict, with ...
22 Dec, 2025, 12.09 AM IST
Indians who fled a Myanmar cyberscam center are being flown home from ThailandIndia is bringing home hundreds of its citizens. They fled from Myanmar last month. Most worked at online scam centers. These centers were ...
06 Nov, 2025, 12.04 PM IST
Meta expands safety tools to safeguard older adults from online scamsMeta cautioned that scammers may pressure their targets to share their screen to trick people into giving away sensitive information, inclu...
22 Oct, 2025, 12.09 PM IST
Cambodia opens new US $2 billion airport to serve Phnom PenhCambodia's Prime Minister inaugurated Techo International Airport, a USD 2 billion, three-runway facility replacing the old Phnom Penh airp...
21 Oct, 2025, 12.25 PM IST
South Korea targets Cambodia’s scam industry after kidnappings, torture and a deathWith a growing crisis at hand, South Korea is proactively seeking to repatriate its citizens from Cambodia, where an alarming number have f...
15 Oct, 2025, 10.38 PM IST
Inside India’s scariest scam — and how to stop itA new wave of digital-arrest scams is targeting wealthy Indians, conning them out of millions. Scammers impersonate officials, creating fea...
13 Oct, 2025, 03.47 PM IST
Gunfire and no guests: Cambodia border clash a real threat for Thailand’s travel economyThailand’s tourism, already fragile, faces a severe setback amid heavy artillery clashes with Cambodia along their disputed border. Travel ...
25 Jul, 2025, 02.10 PM IST
They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are held in detention on the Myanmar borderThousands of former forced laborers, rescued from scam operations in Myanmar, are now trapped in overcrowded detention centers without suff...
09 Mar, 2025, 05.05 PM IST
That online investment scam is a geopolitical problemOnline scams have grown into a global industry with connections to countries like Russia and China. Cybercrime, now a national security iss...
24 Feb, 2025, 11.51 AM IST
Cyber Crime: Scammers stole up to $37 bn; intensifying operations in Southeast AsiaCyber crime syndicates accumulated up to $37 billion last year and are increasing their activities in Southeast Asia. Despite law enforceme...
08 Oct, 2024, 11.26 AM IST
Watch out! Lure of a foreign job can land you in a big troubleMany Indians seeking high-paying jobs abroad found themselves trapped in cyber crime operations in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia...
21 Aug, 2024, 07.34 PM IST
Chinese gangs in Cambodia behind rising cyber-crimes worldwideOwing to its prolonged political unrest, hundreds of small and medium-sized criminal gangs have found a safe haven in Cambodia. Most of the...
17 Apr, 2024, 09.16 PM IST
Invesco raises Swiggy’s valuation by 9%; FMCG items a hit on ecommerce platformsUS asset manager Invesco has marked food-delivery platform Swiggy's valuation up by 9% to $8.5 billion in a second consecutive increase. Th...
04 Jan, 2024, 07.46 PM IST
Razorpay eyes IPO in two to three years; hacking-as-a-service on the riseRazorpay, which is valued at $7.5 billion, has already surpassed its annual gross transaction value (GTV) target of $90 billion for this ye...
14 Nov, 2022, 07.32 AM IST
India’s Look East policy test: How to befriend Japan without antagonising ChinaRenewed ties between India and Japan, amid similar ones with Southeast Asian neighbours, assume importance considering heightened military ...
04 Sep, 2014, 01.31 PM IST