Nearly $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed in Myanmar's major cities on Thursday to mark the annual International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, officials said.
International law enforcement authorities caught one of the two ringleaders of a criminal group behind an online investment scam that defrauded victims of tens of billions of won.
Cases of Korean nationals falling victim to employment scams and even being kidnapped in Southeast Asia are growing, the Foreign Ministry warned Wednesday.
According to the Korean Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, the Koreans were held against their will in Tachileik, a mountainous area in the so-called Golden Triangle between Laos and Thailand.
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