PHILIPPINES: Fired Bamban Mayor Alice Guo arrested in Indonesia after fleeing the Philippines amid investigations into her links to illegal POGO operations, human trafficking & money laundering. rappler.com/philippines/al…

LOOK: Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo being escorted by National Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Immigration agents to the immigration office in Indonesia. (Photo/NBI) | via Mark Ernest Villeza

The Secretary of the Interior & Local Government and the PNP Chief are having so much fun. Nevermind that Alice Guo escaping overseas is symbolic of their own failure. What a mockery of the Filipino people. ✌🏼✌🏼

"There are two aspects to Alice Guo’s fleeing the country that disturbs me as an economist. Both point to the fact that the Philippines still has a weak rule of law problem." #ThoughtLeaders trib.al/gonloZs

Filipinos online slam gov’t officials over ‘special treatment’ of Alice Guo rappler.com/philippines/fi… via Rappler

Is Alice Guo a celebrity or a fugitive? The way Philippine authorities latched on to the dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor, and went all chummy with her in Indonesia, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. More in this #InsideTrack: trib.al/bie6MZI

HERE WE GUO. BREAKING: Tarlac RTC approves request by Sen. Risa Hontiveros to have Alice Guo attend Monday’s hearing GMA Integrated News @24orasgma

CAMBODIA/US: 🚨 US Treasury sanctions 🇰🇭 businessman Ly Yong Phat, L.Y.P. Group & O‑Smach Resort for their role in serious human rights abuse related to the treatment of trafficked workers subjected to forced labor in online scam centers 🚨home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

1 of #Cambodia's tycoon senator's, Ly Yong Phat, sanctioned by the US for role in serious human trafficking. Interested in how Cambodia's tycoons made their money and gained and retain their influence? I profile him and others in The Politics of Coercion cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

CAMBODIA/US: The 🇺🇸 "calls on the government of 🇰🇭 to secure the safe release, repatriation, & protection of all persons currently being held in online scam centers and hold those responsible for these horrendous acts to account." state.gov/imposing-sanct…

The rise of the online scam industry in Southeast Asia would have been impossible without local patrons. Examining the case of Cambodia, Neil Loughlin argues that the industry shows how deeply illicit money is embedded in the ruling party's patronage system.globalchinapulse.net/transnational-…