Chinese and Thai police have captured nine suspects in a coordinated crackdown on a major cross-border credit card fraud case targeting Chinese citizens, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday.

For years, governments across Southeast Asia largely approached the region's online fraudsters as a matter for the police, anti-trafficking agencies and border authorities.

China's procuratorial public interest litigation system empowers prosecutors to identify harm to public interests, urge responsible authorities or infringers to act, and bring cases before courts to clarify responsibility and push rectification.

Vietnam will host the ASEAN Legal Forum 2026 in Hanoi from August 17 to 19, with a focus on integrating artificial intelligence into lawmaking and enforcement to enhance institutional quality and regional judicial cooperation.

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul urged swift probe into killings of Russian siblings and a Thai family.

Ying Yong, Chief Grand Prosecutor and Prosecutor General of the SPP of China, met with a delegation led by Livong Laoly, Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuracy of Laos, in Beijing on July 28.

Ying Yong, Chief Grand Prosecutor and Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) of the People’s Republic of China, met with a delegation led by Thai Attorney General Itthiporn Kaewtip in Beijing on June 30.

Seventeen members of a cross-border human trafficking group operating in Myanmar's Myawaddy area and targeting Chinese citizens have been prosecuted in Shanghai, prosecutors said on Wednesday.