BANGKOK -- Southeast Asia's lawless corners and thriving illicit markets have made the region ideal for transnational entities to build multibillion-dollar criminal networks, bucking the global trend of "state-embedded actors" dominating such activity, according to a new report.
Crime
Foreign nonstate networks dominate Southeast Asian organized crime: report
Trend contrasts with rest of the world, where state-embedded actors prevail
Five men handed over by Myanmar police to their Chinese counterparts at Yangon International Airport in 2023. A report published on Nov. 10 says Chinese nonstate actors dominate much of the criminal activity in Southeast Asia. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Chinese embassy/Myanmar/Xinhua/AP and Reuters)
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