1,200 Miles by Train, From Singapore to Bangkok

They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.

A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands to scam strangers online under threat of violence. Thailand has become a key transit hub, Reuters found.

【続報】ＰＲＩＮＣＥ　ＪＡＰＡＮ（株） | TSR速報 | 倒産・注目企業情報 | 東京商工リサーチ

ＰＲＩＮＣＥ　ＪＡＰＡＮ（株）（渋谷区）は１月１４日、東京地裁より破産開始決定を受けた。

Taiwan Trip Report pt 3: Taipei

This post is part of a series. See the introduction here → Despite being the beginning of May Taipei was very warm. The sun …

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021

Transit System Route Map, 1979

PRINCE　JAPAN（株） | TSR速報 | 倒産・注目企業情報 | 東京商工リサーチ

PRINCE　JAPAN（株）（渋谷区）は1月14日、東京地裁より破産開始決定を受けた。

Rome2Rio

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Digging Out of a Very Deep Hole: Saving Billions on 125th Street — Effective Transit Alliance New York

A 125 St subway should be a slam dunk. But at $7.7B and with stations more than 100 ft underground, it would be the most expensive subway in the world, and cost riders more than 5 minutes every trip before ever stepping on a train. By using international best practices & building more shallowly,

Rome2Rio: discover how to get anywhere

Discover how to get anywhere by searching plane, train, bus, car and ferry routes

Yohan on Twitter / X

For six months, Google Maps sent a slice of drivers in ten American cities down deliberately slower routes.About 30 seconds slower on average, and under 2% of trips were touched. The experiment ran on roughly 100 of the most congested road segments in each city, switching on… pic.twitter.com/5cshNdmWU2— Yohan (@yohaniddawela) August 28, 2026

Why China Waits

Beijing is playing a long game on Taiwan.

Straitsweeper

A tanker is transiting a mined strait. Sweep the route and mark the mines before it arrives.

Change Agent

The journey of a thousand miles begins…with having some idea of where you ought to go.

Journey to the West (1986 TV series)

Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from Wu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel of the same name. It was directed by Yang Jie and stars Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Sun Wukong, Chi Chongrui as Tang Sanzang, Ma Dehua as Zhu Bajie, and Yan Huaili as Sha Wujing.