Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Friday (May 08, 2026).

Sanctioned KNA chief Saw Chit Thu leads Karen National Peace Building Committee, in what critics describe as an effort to mask lucrative transnational crime hubs on border.

Washington has finally woken up to the scale of the challenge, but there is a lot more it can do to punish perpetrators and ...

The Justice Department, in partnership with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, announced sweeping actions targeting sprawling cryptocurrency scam networks based in Southeast Asia, as the State Department ...

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Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Two alleged fraudsters accused of swindling an elderly woman out of tens of thousands of dollars in cash have been arrested by Australian police investigating a spate of ...

The Bride! is coming to streaming this week after the Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale monster mash was dead on arrival at the box office. Right about the same time, Frankenstein’s monster, aka ...

The United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned Xinbi, a Chinese-language online marketplace that sells stolen data and satellite internet equipment to scam ...

Americans are losing at least $119 billion every year to scams, according to a new estimate from the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group. Subscribe to read this story ...

You open your inbox and see a message that instantly makes your stomach drop. Someone claims they have your passwords, your files, your credit card details and your ...

The Bride! is in theaters on March 6. Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, ...

It took more than 50 years, but we’ve finally gotten a successor to Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein” that focuses on the Bride of F. There’s even another formal-wear rendition of “Puttin’ on the Ritz ...