Other and Political Opinions (10th – 14th Nov. 2025)
| Cambodia’s government keeps announcing new raids, new arrests, and new crackdowns. In July 2025 alone, authorities said they detained more than 2,100 people at dozens of sites across the country. But beneath the headlines, the architecture of Cambodia’s online-scam economy still hums along, fueled by coerced labor, opaque money flows, and a justice system that rarely touches the owners and financiers who matter. The result is a cycle that looks busy but changes little. https://bit.ly/49JLoPF; After nearly a month under U.S. and U.K. sanctions and the seizure of more than $15 billion in assets linked to its founder, Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group said it “categorically rejects” allegations that it or its chairman were involved in an industrial-scale online scam network built on forced labor. https://bit.ly/4nOAagg; Business conditions in Cambodia saw declines in the first half of the year, with a third of companies surveyed saying that operation cuts were planned for the second half, according to the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia’s latest Business Pulse report. |
