25 Feb 2025 Doing More for Victims of Forced Criminality in Southeast Asia Brandon Tan Jun Wen To combat a rising transnational scourge, the region’s governments can augment non-governmental efforts to detect, rescue and repatriate victims of increasingly sophisticated overseas ‘job’ scam operations run by cyber syndicates. Crime Human Trafficking Scam Southeast Asia
24 Feb 2025 Leveraging Justice: Marcos Jr. Uses the ICC Probe to Challenge the Duterte Dynasty Sasha Lee President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has shifted his stance from opposing to obliging a potential International Criminal Court arrest warrant for former President Rodrigo Duterte. The ICC probe has become a trump card in the Marcos-Duterte feud ahead of the midterm elections. Crime Philippine Elections Philippine Politics Philippines
4 Feb 2025 Border Crackdown on Organised Crime Puts Vulnerable Myanmar Population in Thailand at Risk Nyi Nyi Kyaw The authorities of affected countries should crack down on crime at the Thailand-Myanmar border. However, they should also consider what the human cost of such policing might be for thousands of displaced and vulnerable Myanmar citizens. Crime Myanmar Myanmar-Thailand Relations Thailand
16 Dec 2024 Fraud with Danger: The Rise of Cyber Scams in Southeast Asia Lance Wu Lance Wu investigates the prevalence of cyber scams in the region and the challenges in responding to them while protecting ASEAN’s digital transformation. ASEAN ASEANFocus Crime Cyber Security Digitalisation
14 Nov 2023 Common Goal for Myanmar’s Warring Groups: Currying Favour With China Kyi Sin In an unexpected twist, the warring groups in Myanmar’s civil war have a unified goal: combatting cybercrime and ingratiating themselves with China. China-Myanmar Relations Crime Myanmar Myanmar Military
5 Jul 2023 Time to Tackle Illegal Foreign Businesses in Thailand Sivarin Lertpusit Illicit nominations of Thais as shareholders in businesses run by Chinese operators are threatening local concerns. This highlights a dense network of transnational criminal activity that the Thai authorities are up against. Crime Thailand
9 Sep 2022 The ‘Sambo Case’: Public Trust in the Indonesian Police at Stake Burhanuddin Muhtadi The convoluted case involving a former police general’s alleged murder of his aide threatens to up-end the Indonesian public’s trust in their law enforcement agencies. Crime Indonesia Indonesian Politics
21 Dec 2021 The Drugs Trade in a Time of Covid-19: Still Rolling Punchada Sirivunnabood The Covid-19 pandemic and associated movement restrictions have not inhibited the drugs trade in around the Golden Triangle. In fact it appears to have worsened it. Crime Drug Trade Golden Triangle Myanmar Thailand
2 Nov 2021 The Philippines after Duterte: The End of Impunity? Sol Iglesias President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial ‘war on drugs’ looms large in the 2022 election for his successor. Crime Criminal Justice System Philippine Philippine Politics
7 Oct 2021 Nominees and ‘Backyard Companies’: How Vietnamese Officials Conceal Their Illicit Wealth Le Hong Hiep Not a single Vietnamese leader or official has been named in the Pandora Papers, which has shed light on global leaders squirrelling their wealth away from the eyes of the taxman. As the saying goes, the absence of evidence does not necessarily mean the evidence of absence. Corruption Crime Vietnam
