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Matsumotojou Castle
松本城
This is the finale of the second phase of Projection Mapping 2025-2026. It was a little difficult to photograph, but this is my favorite fireworks scene.
プロジェクションマッピング2025-2026の第2期のフィナーレです。ちょっと写真では分かりづらいけど、お気に入りの花火のシーンです。
Matsumoto city, Nagano pref, Japan
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Matsumotojou Castle
松本城
This is the finale of the second phase of Projection Mapping 2025-2026. It was a little difficult to photograph, but this is my favorite fireworks scene.
プロジェクションマッピング2025-2026の第2期のフィナーレです。ちょっと写真では分かりづらいけど、お気に入りの花火のシーンです。
Matsumoto city, Nagano pref, Japan
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Kamikochi, Tashiro Marsh
上高地・田代湿原
This is the Hotaka mountains as seen from Tashiro marsh. The morning sun was shining and it was a warm day.
田代湿原から見る穂高連峰です。朝日がさしてこの日は暖かかったです。
Matsumoto city, Nagano pref, Japan
Carvin werkte jarenlang als ambtenaar bij de gemeente, maar raakte zijn baan kwijt en belandde op straat. Tijdens een ijskoude nacht verloor hij zelfs zijn tenen. Inmiddels heeft hij een kamer in Rotterdam-Zuid en probeert hij rond te komen door flesjes en blikjes te verzamelen.
Er staat een overheerlijke voetbalzondag voor je klaar. Eerst neemt Excelsior het in eigen huis op tegen Ajax, die op revanche azen na de nederlaag in eigen huis. Later vanmiddag wordt er een heuse topper afgewerkt. Feyenoord moet plek twee vast zien te houden in een lastige wedstrijd tegen PSV. Rijnmond is erbij!
Er staat een overheerlijke voetbalzondag voor je klaar. Eerst neemt Excelsior het in eigen huis op tegen Ajax, die op revanche azen na de nederlaag in eigen huis. Later vanmiddag wordt er een heuse topper afgewerkt. Feyenoord moet plek twee vast zien te houden in een lastige wedstrijd tegen PSV. Rijnmond is erbij!
The BBC reports:
China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report.
The Ming family members were sentenced in September for various crimes including homicide, illegal detention, fraud and operating gambling dens by a court in China's Zhejiang province. The Mings were one of many clans that ran the town of Laukkaing, transforming an impoverished backwater town into a flashy hub of casinos and red-light districts. Their scam empire came crashing down in 2023, when they were detained and handed over to China by ethnic militias that had taken control of Laukkaing during an escalation in their conflict with Myanmar's army. With these executions Beijing is sending a message of deterrence to would-be scammers.
But the business has now moved to Myanmar's border with Thailand, and to Cambodia and Laos, where China has much less influence.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to run online scams in Myanmar and elsewhere in South East Asia, according to estimates by the UN. Among them are thousands of Chinese people, and their victims who they swindle billions of dollars from are mainly Chinese too. Frustrated by the Myanmar military's refusal to stop the scam business, from which it was almost certainly profiting, Beijing tacitly backed an offensive by an ethnic insurgent alliance in Shan State in late 2023. The alliance captured significant territory from the military and overran Laukkaing, a key border town.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the news.
China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report.
The Ming family members were sentenced in September for various crimes including homicide, illegal detention, fraud and operating gambling dens by a court in China's Zhejiang province. The Mings were one of many clans that ran the town of Laukkaing, transforming an impoverished backwater town into a flashy hub of casinos and red-light districts. Their scam empire came crashing down in 2023, when they were detained and handed over to China by ethnic militias that had taken control of Laukkaing during an escalation in their conflict with Myanmar's army. With these executions Beijing is sending a message of deterrence to would-be scammers.
But the business has now moved to Myanmar's border with Thailand, and to Cambodia and Laos, where China has much less influence.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to run online scams in Myanmar and elsewhere in South East Asia, according to estimates by the UN. Among them are thousands of Chinese people, and their victims who they swindle billions of dollars from are mainly Chinese too. Frustrated by the Myanmar military's refusal to stop the scam business, from which it was almost certainly profiting, Beijing tacitly backed an offensive by an ethnic insurgent alliance in Shan State in late 2023. The alliance captured significant territory from the military and overran Laukkaing, a key border town.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.