Alleged scam billionaire arrested and sent to China
Chen Zhi has been accused by the US of running one of Asia’s biggest transnational criminal organisations from Cambodia...
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Chen Zhi has been accused by the US of running one of Asia’s biggest transnational criminal organisations from Cambodia...
Chen Zhi is accused of running scam centers that used forced labor to target victims worldwide. Cambodia handed him over to China after months of international pressure....
A Cambodian bank founded by accused scam boss Chen Zhi, who has been indicted by the United States over a multibillion-dollar fraud and extradited to China, was ordered liquidated on Thursday, Cambodi...
A Thai fortune-teller was arrested in Pattaya on Thursday after being accused of telling a client she would soon face bad luck and lose a valuable possession on New Year’s Day, then allegedly making g...
A Ryanair flight to Tenerife returned to Birmingham on Sunday after the plane encountered turbulence. Anna Barclay/Getty Images Several passengers on a Ryanair flight to Tenerife were injured after it...
A new route connecting Hong Kong’s Yau Ma Tei and Tseung Kwan O will fully open this year, the city’s transport chief has said. Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan also said on Saturday t...
Robots have started evacuating some wounded soldiers in Ukraine, and the West is watching the technology. AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko A US Navy veteran working in Ukraine said using robots to evacuate ...
Iranian forces "behaved with savage brutality" when they stormed a hospital in Ilam, a nurse told DW. Mass protests continue to grow....
Venezuela underwent major economic and social changes in the mid-20th century. Jack Manning/Getty Images Venezuela, home to the world's largest oil reserves, was once among the world's richest nations...
The US president repeatedly said he would only meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the diplomatic peace process is at its final stage. According to Ukraine’s president the peace plan is 90% complete. When t...
Beijing has condemned Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s New Year’s Day speech, in which he vowed to boost the island’s defences, as full of “lies, falsehoods, hostility and malice” and an attemp...
Venezuela’s opposition leader weighs when to return — and whether to mobilise her supporters...
Unrest tests Islamic republic at a time when it is grappling with intensifying external and domestic pressures...
More than $10.5mn has been wagered on contracts seeking to predict when the US will ‘invade’ Venezuela...
When the civil war in Syria began, Mohammed al-Hallak was only a teenager. This is his story....
The US dollar traded at 1.38 million rials on Wednesday, compared with 430,000 rials when the previous governor took office in 2022....
All eyes are on how Beijing’s “Chinese dream” of eventual Taiwan reunification will unfold at a time when the leader of the United States – Taipei’s top international backer – appears less likely to i...
Two men arrested over a 1 billion yen (US$6.4 million) robbery in Hong Kong were remanded in custody after appearing at Fanling Court on Friday. Lee Wan-kwong, 36, and Lee Chun-wa, 28, were each charg...
Iranian forces "behaved with savage brutality" when they recently stormed a hospital in Ilam province, a nurse who works there said . Mass protests continue to grow....
When it comes to Ukraine, Czechia's new coalition government is sending out conflicting messages, ranging from anti-Ukraine tirades to half-hearted support for the war-torn country. What's going on?...