Sengly Tang

Syracuse, New York

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Cambodia Wraps Up Its Anti-Scam Conference With a Pledge to Go After What's Left

Shutting down one site isn't enough if the network just moves somewhere else, Information Minister Neth Pheaktra told reporters Thursday afternoon, summing up two days of talks at the ICCOS conference Cambodia hosted in Phnom Penh. He said Cambodia will keep suppressing the scam operations that remain, investigate the networks behind them, and cut off their money.

Delegations from 27 countries attended, including the US, China, Australia, Japan and South Korea, along with seven international organizations. The ones named were UNODC, INTERPOL, the Lancang-Mekong law enforcement center, and the FBI.

The conference settled on four "core messages" of responsibility, results, commitment and partnership. Under results, commitments are supposed to become measurable outcomes in prevention, victim protection, disrupting networks and bringing offenders before the law. Under responsibility, the burden falls on governments and police but also on tech companies, banks, international bodies and the public.

Neth Pheaktra said a network can operate from one country, target victims in a second, and keep its ringleaders and money in a third.

[Reuters World @ReutersWorld]

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[The Hill @thehill]

Carney says he’s prepared for ‘extreme tail risk’ of US invading Canada

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[Peuv @peuvs]

While some journalists withheld details about the scam compounds, the truth is public. Senators Kok An and Ly Yong Phat are already sanctioned by the U.S. The roots of Cambodia's scams run incredibly deep.
#Cambodia #Cybercrime #ScamSyndicates

[New York Post @nypost]

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[TIME @TIME]

Ottawa's City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to remove President Donald Trump’s name from a residential street in the Canadian capital amid an increasingly hostile trade war
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[POLITICO @politico]

Canada’s Carney says he studied risk of US invasion https://t.co/AmDMbe383k

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Uganda's deputy interior minister, Juma Witonze, met Interior Minister Sar Sokha in Phnom Penh this afternoon for what the ministry calls a courtesy call and work discussion. Hopefully the work part covered the Ugandans trafficked into Cambodia's scam compounds.

[Nikkei Asia @NikkeiAsia]

Cambodia probing scam sites linked to two senators, minister says https://t.co/KnNVw7lTZz

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Thai forces took over Chok Chey during the December 2025 fighting. Months later, parts of the village look almost apocalyptic.

LICADHO says at least 270 homes and other structures were razed after the December 27 ceasefire.

[Sengly Tang @senglytan]

@jacobincambodia Wow! What such a grandiose statement!

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Cambodia’s anti-scam conference ended with Hun Manet saying scam compounds “no longer exist” in the country and Cambodia “will never be a safe haven for online scams.”

That is a very high bar after years of large scam operations becoming deeply established here.

Now the test is simple. Do the compounds stay closed? Do the people behind them actually face prosecution? Do the operations disappear rather than just move into smaller sites?

[The Hill @thehill]

Majority of Americans, Canadians agree Trump’s tariffs were wrong: Poll

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[Khmer Times @KhmerTimes]

Cambodia has lodged a formal diplomatic protest against Thailand following the installation of a Buddha statue in a disputed border area in Oddar Meanchey province.
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[Sengly Tang @senglytan]

@AJEnglish The scam criminals in Cambodia are now poorer.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Cambodia’s closure of suspected scam sites has displaced cybercrime networks rather than dismantled them, Jason Tower of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime tells Al Jazeera.

He says syndicates are expanding globally.

[Sengly Tang @senglytan]

@jacobincambodia Wow! Cambodian Rambo in action!

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⚡️ Erdoğan supports Ukraine from the UN podium

“We sincerely hope that the war between Ukraine and Russia will end with Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity preserved.”

[The Phnom Penh Post @phnompenhpost]

Cambodia protests Thai installation of Buddha statue in Anlong Veng

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