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South Korean foreign minister urges Cambodia's leader to fight online scams 11/10/2025 05:32am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — South Korea’s foreign minister met Monday with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet to pressure him to suppress burgeoning large-scale online scam operations that have been blamed for the brutal death of a Korean student. The victim, 22-year-old Park Min-ho, was reporte Scam centers in southeast Asia are on the rise despite crackdowns to root out the illegal industry 11/07/2025 03:01am • BANGKOK (AP) — It often starts with a text message asking if you are available on weekends, looking for a part-time job or you get a simple “hello” from an unknown number. Halfway across the world, a laborer is usually pulling in 12-16 hour days, sending non-stop messages, hoping someone will Indians who fled a Myanmar cyberscam center are being flown home from Thailand 11/06/2025 01:10am • MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — India is repatriating on Thursday the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams. The center, known as KK Park on the outskirts of the border city of Myawaddy an Do You Make These Preventable Banking Mistakes? 11/05/2025 07:00pm • We've all made a few banking blunders that left us kicking ourselves or the ATM. Perhaps you racked up some surprise fees. Or maybe you failed to earn the top interest rate on your high-yield savings account. Even worse, you might have been duped by a scammer pretending to be your bank. In any case, Why California voters approved a redistricting ballot measure, according to the AP Voter Poll 11/05/2025 03:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Most California voters didn’t like redrawing their congressional districts to favor Democrats. But many may have felt Republicans left them with no alternative. The AP Voter Poll, an expansive survey of more than 4,000 voters in California, captured the mixed emotions of an ele Prosecutors in Asia seize yachts, luxury cars and cash from man accused of running cyberscams 11/05/2025 03:23am • BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore seized hundreds of millions of dollars in assets belonging to a Cambodian businessman whom the U.S. accuses of heading a global scam syndicate. It's the latest in a string of investigations and asset seizures that began when American p The Latest: Democrats notch wins for governors, mayor over Trump’s picks 11/05/2025 12:15am • Voters in races across the country backed Democrats, including in New York’s mayoral race and contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, rejecting President Donald Trump’s late and lightweight push for his preferred candidates. Democrats secured another expected win in California, where v FACT FOCUS: New York City ballots do not show proof of election fraud 11/04/2025 04:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — For many years, New York voters have found candidates listed twice, three times or even more on their ballots when they go to the polling booth. It isn't an error — it's a practice known as fusion voting that allows candidates to appear under multiple political parties. But such Moroccan court sentences man accused of trafficking people to scam compound in Asia 11/04/2025 03:31pm • CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan court on Tuesday sentenced a man to five years in prison and $107,300 in fines for human trafficking, in the country’s first ruling against someone accused of luring people to work in a scam compound in Asia. The case involved several young Moroccans who sai Mayors pledge coordinated climate action ahead of UN conference in Brazil 11/04/2025 09:30am • SAO PAULO (AP) — Just days ahead of the U.N. climate conference to be held in Brazil, a group of 300 mayors gathered Monday in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action and address rising heat that is hurting many of their residents. The summit was organized by C40, a network of mayors South Korea calls for greater Chinese efforts to bring North Korea back to talks 11/01/2025 01:23pm • GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to make greater efforts to persuade North Korea to return to talks, as the two leaders on Saturday agreed on a set of steps to expand their economic and other ties. Their one-on-one meeting came ho World Athletics blames employees for $1.7M taken in 'systematic theft' 10/30/2025 03:00pm • World Athletics says its own employees stole about $1.75 million as part of a “systematic theft” scheme that lasted several years. The organization that oversees track and field said Thursday that an internal audit discovered suspicious activity over a period of years and that it has handed over Md. lawmaker says it’s time to scrap vehicle emissions test 10/30/2025 04:24am • It’s not quite an annual tradition, but once a vehicle turns six years old, Maryland drivers have to take their cars to a vehicle emissions testing facility every couple of years and pay $30 for a vehicle emissions test. The test is designed to look for extra sources of air pollution. Most cars Lithuania extends closure of Belarus border crossings after balloons enter its airspace 10/29/2025 12:41pm • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania said Wednesday it will keep the country's border crossings with Belarus closed for a month after balloons used to smuggle cigarettes across the frontier caused repeated disruption at the capital's airport, though there will be some exemptions. The two border cro Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up 10/28/2025 09:54am • BANGKOK (AP) — The number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle, a Thai regional army commander said Tuesday, after more than 1,500 had left in the past week. The KK Park site, identified by Thai officials