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1 week ago | 
straitstimes.com | Selam Gebrekidan |Joy Dong
– Every few weeks, fireworks light up the night sky in Cambodia, set off by scammers to salute their biggest swindles. By the time the shells pop and crackle, somebody’s life savings are probably gone. Maybe the victim fell for an online romance scam or bought into a fake cryptocurrency exchange. Whatever the scheme, the money has vanished, sucked into a complex money laundering network that moves billions of dollars at a dizzying speed.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Lap Phan |Selam Gebrekidan |Joy Dong |Chang W. Lee
Selam Gebrekidan, Joy Dong, Chang W. Lee and Weiyi CaiMar 25, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Every few weeks, fireworks light up the night sky in Cambodia, set off by scammers to salute their biggest swindles. By the time the shells pop and crackle, somebody’s life savings are probably gone.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Selam Gebrekidan |Joy Dong
NowThe Scammer’s Manual: How to Launder Money and Get Away With ItEvery few weeks, fireworks light up the night sky in Cambodia, set off by scammers to salute their biggest swindles. By the time the shells pop and crackle, somebody’s life savings are probably gone. Maybe the victim fell for an online romance scam or bought into a fake cryptocurrency exchange.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Selam Gebrekidan |Joy Dong |Chang W. Lee |Weiyi Cai
Every few weeks, fireworks light up the night sky in Cambodia, set off by scammers to salute their biggest swindles. By the time the shells pop and crackle, somebody's life savings are probably gone. Maybe the victim fell for an online romance scam or bought into a fake cryptocurrency exchange. Whatever the scheme, the money has vanished, sucked into a complex money-laundering network that moves billions of dollars at a dizzying speed.
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1 month ago | 
archive.is | Selam Gebrekidan |Joy Dong
PurposesStore and/or access information on a deviceCookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Selam Gebrekidan |Joy Dong
Gung-ho grandma sets goal to travel the world on bike through 100 countries: ‘Travel is like a drug’This granny has her sights set on 100. A 66-year-old grandmother who has already biked solo through 12 countries — across three continents — has a …
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Qasim Nauman |Matthew Bigg |Joy Dong
Warren Hu had just settled into his flight from New York to London, where he planned to visit his girlfriend, when he became one of the thousands of passengers whose travel was thrown into disarray early Friday because of a fire near Heathrow Airport. The plane carrying Mr. Hu, a college student in New York, would be returning to the United States, a crew member announced. "I'm a bit surprised, but we can find a solution, so I'm trying to stay calm," he said in a text message from the plane.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Alexandra Stevenson |Joy Dong
The deal had the imprint of a Hong Kong billionaire nicknamed "Superman" for his empire building. One of the tycoon's companies, which for years has run two ports on the Panama Canal, had been thrust into a broader showdown between China and the United States. So the billionaire, Li Ka-shing, got out of the firing line by notching a $19 billion deal to sell the business to a group of deep-pocketed American investors.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Joy Dong |Daisuke Wakabayashi
When Son Jun-ho, a key midfielder for South Korea’s World Cup soccer team, signed with a Chinese club, he was an indication of China’s ambition to dominate the world’s most popular sport. But after Chinese police officers detained him two years later, accusing him of bribery and match-fixing, he became a symbol of a different sort: the ruthless efficiency of China’s legal system. Mr. Son had insisted to his interrogators that he was innocent.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Joy Dong
In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone to plan. Two chunky pandas, a male and a female, arrived from China in October at the National Zoo in Washington. If everything goes as planned, they will eventually have cubs. Exchanges like this have helped turn giant pandas into the face of conservation worldwide.
