China’s leader Xi Jinping will reportedly embark on a three-nation tour of Southeast Asia later this month, a possible sign that China is seeking to capitalize on the current regional unease about the direction of U.S. policy in the region. On Monday, the South China Morning Post, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, reported that Xi will…
PHNOM PENH — Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Cambodia this month as part of a trip to Southeast Asia, according to three sources, for a visit that will cast a light on China’s response to the U.S. government’s massive cuts to its aid program, as well as new and pending promises from…
President Xi Jinping is expected to embark on a swing around Southeast Asia next month as Beijing accelerates its efforts to deepen neighbourhood ties amid regional anxiety about US foreign policy during Donald Trump’s second administration. Diplomatic sources said that Xi would be likely to set off in mid-April, with stops in Vietnam, Malaysia and…
The US canceled two aid projects in Cambodia in late February — one to encourage child literacy and another to improve nutrition and development for kids under five. A week later, China’s aid agency announced funding for programs to achieve almost identical goals. “Children are the future of the country and the nation,” China’s ambassador…
We live in a scammer’s world. We get texts from unknown numbers with an odd tone of familiarity. We have been promised breathtaking profits in ads on social media. We have encountered characters on dating apps who seemed too good to be true. It’s not just us, of course. Most people have heard stories or…
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…
Phnom Penh, Cambodia — A convoy of semi-trucks passed by as our CBS News team drove about two hours south of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. Moments later we were greeted by an enormous arch with signage in two languages — the local Khmer and, beneath it, Chinese. There could be no mistake about who’s in charge…
There are usually no international flights out of the airport in Mae Sot, a town on Thailand’s border with Myanmar. But in recent days, hundreds of people here boarded direct flights back home to China. They had been rescued from Myanmar, where they were ensnared in a 21st-century scourge — online scam mills that have…
Three people were arrested for illegally exporting around 30 tonnes of Wagyu beef from Japan to Hong Kong by falsely claiming it would be sent to Cambodia, local police said on Thursday. Sun Yongchao, 53, a trading company executive from China, Wang Ennian, 71, a corporate officer at a separate firm, and Wang’s daughter Hana…
The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400 on display. The century-old building in central Phnom Penh is running out of room partly because foreign collectors and institutions have returned about 300 stolen artifacts over the past…