Hacker News with Generative AI: Cambodia

How one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates (nytimes.com)
Every few weeks, fireworks light up the night sky in Cambodia, set off by scammers to salute their biggest swindles.
Money Laundering, Crime, Cambodia
110 points by bookofjoe 10 days ago | 87 comments
Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes (mongabay.com)
U.S. consumers risk using flooring products made of wood illegally logged from Cambodia’s rainforests, a recent Mongabay investigation suggests.
Illegal Logging, Cambodia, Environmental Issues, Consumerism, Rainforest
133 points by PaulHoule 135 days ago | 87 comments
Cambodian company strips protected areas of timber for export (mongabay.com)
A Cambodian company has likely been illegally logging in protected areas and exporting the timber to Vietnam and China, according to a report by Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn.
Cambodia, Illegal Logging, Environmental Issues, Deforestation, Timber Industry
20 points by PaulHoule 152 days ago | 1 comments
“Lucky” Fish Could Save Lives (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)
A fish-shaped iron ingot is reducing the number of cases of iron deficiency anemia in Cambodia and beyond
Health, Science, Cambodia, Iron Deficiency
20 points by gnabgib 179 days ago | 12 comments
Virtual Angkor (virtualangkor.com)
The Virtual Angkor project aims to recreate the sprawling Cambodian metropolis of Angkor at the height of the Khmer empire’s power and influence around 1300 C.E. A groundbreaking collaboration between Archaeologists, Historians and Virtual History specialists based in Australia, Cambodia and the United States, the project is designed to bring Angkor to life.
History, Archaeology, Virtual Reality, Cambodia
9 points by helloplanets 187 days ago | 1 comments
Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry (globalchinapulse.net)
Jingjing invited me to her office and asked me to wait for her to finish work before we headed out to dinner together.[1] At the time, she was working in a third-party payment company—what, in the jargon of the money-laundering industry, is known as a ‘gateway’ (通道, tongdao). Like another similar enterprise I had previously visited, their premises was in a dozen hotel rooms above a casino in Sihanoukville that were rented monthly.
Money Laundering, Online Scams, Crime, Cambodia, Financial Crimes
236 points by speckx 188 days ago | 167 comments