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Cambodia strongly rebuts report on growing cybercrime sector
Authored by Jacob Sims, a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Asia Center, the 68-page report published last month said: "As of early 2025, Cambodia is a top location -- if not the premier global center -- for large-scale, sophisticated scamming operations."
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- Nikkei Asia
China urged Astellas employee to take plea bargain on spy charge: source
An employee of Japan's Astellas Pharma was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Beijing court on July 16. © Kyodo YUKIO TAJIMA BEIJING -- Chinese authorities encouraged a detained Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma to confess to espionage charges in exchange for a reduced sentence, a source told Nikkei. The Astellas employee was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison by a Beijing court. According to a source familiar with the case, the court ruled that he had passed on Chinese internal information at the request of Japanese intelligence in return for compensation, which constituted espionage.
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- Kyodo News
China says it seeks stable ties with Japan after LDP election defeat
BEIJING - China said Monday it will continue to seek stable ties with Japan, a day after the country's ruling Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and its coalition partner Komeito lost their majority in the upper house race. Guo Jiakun, a spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, declined to comment on the results of Sunday's House of Councillors election, calling them "internal affairs" of Japan, but said Beijing is willing to work with Tokyo to continuously carry out dialogue and communication at all levels. China is also eager to promote "strategic and mutually beneficial" bilateral ties that are "constructive and stable," Guo said. Amid intensifying Sino-U.S. rivalry and steep tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, China has tried to stabilize its strained ties with Japan. Recently, it has lifted its total ban on Japanese seafood introduced in 2023 after Japan began releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea and completed a key step toward resuming Japanese beef imports, paving the way for their restart after a 24-year hiatus. China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on the election setback of Japan's ruling coalition as breaking news, noting the difficulty Ishiba may face in remaining in power.
Japan Today
a day ago
- Japan Today
China pressed Japanese businessman to admit to spying in plea deal
Chinese authorities pushed a Japanese businessman, recently convicted by a Chinese court, to admit to spying in exchange for a lesser charge under a plea bargain, sources close to diplomatic ties said Sunday. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court on Wednesday sentenced a man in his 60s working for Astellas Pharma Inc. to three years and six months in prison for espionage. The defendant admitted to the charge, but the verdict did not detail how he acted illegally. Legal experts said the sentence appeared more lenient than those given to other Japanese nationals tried on spying charges in China. In May this year, another Japanese man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for espionage by a Shanghai court. During questioning, authorities told the man and his lawyer what sentence he could expect if he pleaded guilty and explained the legal basis for it, the sources said. A 2018 amendment to China's criminal procedure law introduced a plea leniency system. According to people familiar with Sino-Japanese relations, the man was convicted of providing information to a Japanese intelligence agency and received rewards. The Astellas Pharma employee was detained in March 2023, just ahead of his scheduled return to Japan, was formally arrested in October of that year and was indicted in August 2024. He had served as an executive at the pharmaceutical company's Chinese unit and a senior official of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China. © KYODO
