# Luke Hunt

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Transnational Repression, Organized Crime, and Conflict in Southeast Asia

Chinese dissident Zhang Xinyan was detained by authorities in Thailand last week while boarding her scheduled flight from Bangkok to Canada for resettlement, despite holding a refugee visa from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and all required approvals from Ottawa. Human rights gr…

The Shifting Contours of Transnational Cybercrime in the Asia-Pacific

Last week the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its latest report on transnational scam networks, which found that victims from East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand had been defrauded of up to $114.1 billion in 2025. The report draws on official data, case r…

Where is Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi?

The military-backed government in Myanmar this week released four photos of the country's jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who met with Arnaud de Baecque, the resident representative for the International Committee of the Red Cross to Myanmar, on August 3. “This may be a first step, but it mu…

ASEAN Fractures Widen as Thailand Hosts Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing

As the people of Myanmar recently commemorated the 8888 uprising that demanded political freedom but was brutally put down in August 1988, Thailand was playing host to Min Aung Hlaing, the former general who seized power through a coup in early 2021. This was Min Aung Hlaing's second official visit…

AI, Scams, the Law and Governance, a Conversation with David Tan

Governments across Southeast Asia are struggling with the arrival of artificial intelligence, its endless possibilities that can improve everyday life and the threats posed by organized crime and the scam industries which have taken hold in the region. Singapore-based, David Tan, co-director of the…

Mohan Malik on Trump, Asia, and the Legacy of the Global War on Terror

Mohan Malik is a veteran China-Asia analyst and military strategist who has advised senior brass on geopolitics at the U.S. Defense Department’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and he is a former director of Defence Studies at Deakin University in Australia. Malik spoke with The Diplomat’…

El Niño, Climate Catastrophe, and the Coming Financial Showdown

Pablo Berrutti is founder and managing director of Altiorem, a sustainable finance library, and a strategic advisor with a background in the integration of artificial intelligence measuring the impact of climate change and its impact on business. This includes banks and insurance companies and thei…

A Matter of Trust: Google, Artificial Intelligence, and the Public Sphere

Singapore-based Bertha Chan heads Trust and Safety Global Engagements across the Asia-Pacific for Google, focusing on the safeguards and considerations needed to prevent AI misuse while keeping pace with the technology. Her remit covers jurisdictions and partnerships with governments and civil soci…

POGOs and Online Scams, From the Philippines to Myanmar

Eunice Barbara Novio is a Thailand-based journalist and an English lecturer at Vongchavalitkul University who has has written extensively on human trafficking in Southeast Asia, particularly focusing on Filipino victims trafficked to Myanmar. A veteran writer for Inquirer.net, she has reported abou…

Kim Aris On the Campaign to Free Aung San Suu Kyi

Kim Aris has conducted a concerted campaign for the release of his mother, Aung San Suu Kyi, ever since she was detained in early 2021, when Myanmar’s military ousted her elected government and tipped the country into a bloody civil war. Her meeting last month with an official from the Internationa…