Crackdowns on the burgeoning scam industry along Myanmar’s border and elsewhere are unlikely to have an effect until the real masterminds can be found, says Bertil Lintner.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 12 (Bernama) -- The collective net worth of tycoons on the 2026 Forbes list of Hong Kong’s 50 Richest jumped 22 per cent to an all time high of US$366 billion from US$301 billion ...

Transnational organised crime groups based in Southeast Asia are turning into “criminal service providers” selling a range of illegal activities, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ...

The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) are still targeting the title at the Asia Team Championships despite sending a back-up squad to the tournament starting today in Qingdao, China.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (Shalimar Garden) Atul Kumar Singh said preliminary investigation suggested that the sisters were addicted to a Korean task-based interactive "love game" ...

Whether Anutin stays in his current position will be decided in a general election on Sunday, though judging by the cunning ...

Relatives of the missing sabungeros have renewed their appeal to wanted businessman Charlie Tiu Hay Ang, also known as Atong Ang, to surrender and face the charges against him, as authorities continue ...

With preordained elections, ASEAN constrained and China backing the junta, Myanmar’s crisis shows no sign of resolution.

In 2025, Myanmar experienced a fault break that stretched 311 miles in seconds, forcing geologists to rethink key seismic ...

The “clearance operation” began at 3 a.m. in western Myanmar, the soldier says. The colonel in charge told the troops in Myanmar’s 565th light infantry battalion their task was to wipe out the ...

In Myanmar’s vast southern archipelago, the civil war intersects with a much longer struggle for survival. MYEIK, MYANMAR — ...

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many ...