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6 days ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Zach Hope
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6 days ago | 
smh.com.au | Zach Hope
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty travel to the borderlands near Myanmar, where efforts are under way to rescue thousands of trafficking victims from scam factories.See all 4 stories. Ordinarily, Mr Lyu might have gone through unhindered – corruption and complacency had always kept Thailand’s borderlands with Myanmar well lubricated.
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1 week ago | 
smh.com.au | Zach Hope |Amilia Rosa
By Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa May 27, 2025 — 5.54pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Singapore/Bali: An Australian man facing execution by firing squad if found guilty of running drugs in Bali was so distressed after being deceived by a friend and then being arrested that he threw himself against the walls of the police station and was crying, his lawyer said.
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1 week ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Zach Hope |Amilia Rosa
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1 week ago | 
smh.com.au | Zach Hope |Amilia Rosa
By Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa May 26, 2025 — 12.48pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An Australian has allegedly been caught in Bali with enough drugs to qualify for the death penalty or decades in prison. Local media has reported the person, whose identity remains unknown, was arrested in an apartment in the Canggu area of the popular holiday island on Thursday last week.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Zach Hope
By Zach Hope May 25, 2025 — 8.53am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty travel to the borderlands near Myanmar, where efforts are under way to rescue thousands of trafficking victims from scam factories.See all 2 stories. Something quite remarkable has been happening this year at Mae Sot, a Thai border town about 500 kilometres north-west of Bangkok.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Zach Hope
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They were told their government wasn’t coming for them, and this was true. Months had passed since they had been hauled from the scam compounds of Myanmar’s lawless borderlands and put here, a holding camp, of sorts; a place to wait under the watch of militiamen until their names appeared on a list designating those who were soon to be free.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Zach Hope
By Zach Hope May 20, 2025 — 11.32am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Singapore: In the past week, Anthony Albanese has taken in a papal inauguration, Indonesian military pageantry of the highest order and quality face-time with some of the most consequential leaders of a rattled free world.
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2 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Zach Hope
The ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) last year granted SunCable a conditional licence to import Australian electricity from 2035. More broadly, Singapore’s geography at the juncture of strategic waters is as significant now, if not more so in these unpredictable times, as it was when Sir Stamford Raffles set up shop more than 200 years ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Zach Hope
By Zach Hope May 15, 2025 — 6.27pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made a point of condemning Russia while in Indonesia on his first overseas trip since the election, as the Kremlin tries to expand its influence in the region.
