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Created: 2025-07-14 03:48:12 UTC

The riverside city awash with crime.

Laos' Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone has become a centre for money laundering, trafficking and online finance and romance scams, a multibillion-dollar industry that shows no signs of abating, warn international authorities and analysts


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