The streets of Sihanoukville, a southwestern Cambodian city, are lined with gray buildings, iron-barred windows, and thick concrete walls. They look like high-security prisons.  However, these are not ordinary prisons but “yuanqu”—a fraud factory in the language of Chinese crime circles. Recently, on 18 October, South Korean investigators uncovered a case in which thousands of … Continue reading Cambodian City Under Chinese Scammers: Young People “Imprisoned” for Fraud