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The UN's International Organisation for Migration has raised alarm over a surging form of human trafficking centred on online scam operations, with educated job seekers lured through social media into criminal compounds across more than 80 nations.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has secured court orders to remand 33 people, including enforcement officers and government workers, suspected of involvement in a coordinated network exploiting foreign nationals through various illegal schemes.
Thai authorities have arrested a hospital officer and district official over an alleged scheme enabling Chinese nationals to register their children as Thai citizens using fake fathers, uncovering at least 164 suspicious cases and connecting the scam to broader money-laundering networks.
Ho Chi Minh City police have successfully dismantled multiple criminal networks that smuggled foreign nationals into Vietnam to operate online fraud schemes, resulting in 26 arrests across eight cases and the seizure of hundreds of computers and mobile phones.
Japanese police have arrested a senior executive of Prince Holding Group, a Cambodia-based Chinese criminal network sanctioned by the US and Britain, alongside two accomplices on suspicion of submitting fraudulent address change documents.
Hong Kong authorities have arrested seven suspects within 12 hours of a violent gold heist at the airport car park, where a man carrying HK$7 million in gold bars was stabbed and robbed by masked attackers.
Law enforcement has shut down an illegal gambling operation functioning within an upscale residential tower in Bukit Jalil, Cheras, resulting in the detention of 15 individuals following a weekend enforcement action.