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Crime news including the latest on murder cases, the hunt for serial killers, triads, court cases and trials, shootings, burglary, armed robbery and corruption.
Social media platforms must stay abreast of sinister technology developments that have ensnared Hong Kong leader John Lee and pop star Taylor Swift, among others.
Concern over donations to a decades-old city Christian NGO reveals the need for greater transparency from such groups.
Lessons must be learned from a privacy breach at an online marketplace that saw details of city users compromised as well as from the probe that followed.
- Critics have accused PM Anwar of abandoning his reform agenda as anger grows over the reduced sentence for ex-leader Najib for graft linked to the 1MDB scandal
- Election watchdog Bersih 2.0 warned it ‘won’t hesitate to mobilise the people to take to the streets’ over the leniency showed to corrupt politicians
His offences came to light after the device fell while the Filipino worker was in the common toilet.
Chen Liren, 27, had been hospitalised since his arrest on January 16 for beating his wife, Yu Xuanyi, another Google employee, to death in their home in Santa Clara, California.
Prosecutors say Jennifer Crumbley had a duty to prevent her son – who was 15 when he killed 4 students in 2021 – from harming others.
Landmark court ruling brings the former US president a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial.
Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie was arrested in April 2023 after bodies were found in the Shakahola forest. Autopsies revealed most of the 429 victims died of hunger.
Jerry Liu, 46, appears in Eastern Court for sentencing on two drug possession charges.
Police said the 50-year-old had threatened to set his wife on fire previously. She died of her injuries on Sunday, 16 hours after being doused in petrol and set alight.
Chinese-Australian writer Yang Jun was sentenced to death on Monday, with a two-year suspended execution, after being found guilty of espionage.
Indonesian engineers are under investigation for allegedly trying to remove a USB device containing information on the South Korean-made KF-21 fighter jet.
The legislation applies to those above 21 who are convicted of crimes such as culpable homicide, rape, and sex with minors, who are deemed to be at risk of reoffending upon release.
Arrestees allegedly rented other couriers’ accounts on apps and took orders to deliver meals to earn commission, insider says.
The ruling could ease the legal troubles surrounding the Samsung heir, less than two years after he was pardoned of a separate conviction of bribery in a corruption scandal that helped topple a previous South Korean government.
A police report alleges that Taib Mahmud’s wife, Ragad Kurdi Taib, had forcibly removed him from a hospital in Sarawak over the weekend.
Lee Byung-hun’s home is the latest to be targeted by burglars, joining a long list of high-profile stars – including the Beckhams and Keanu Reeves – whose homes have also been ransacked
The decision to halve Najib’s sentence and cut his fine for corruption linked to the plunder of the 1MDB state fund enraged the public and reopened wounds on all sides of Malaysia’s festering political divide.
Man, 26, faced three charges of possessing CBD and neglecting daughters, aged two and four, after duo accidentally ate sweets containing prohibited substance last June.
Albertina Kallu remitted the entire amount to her bank account in Indonesia and spent it all, including on building a house, the court heard.
Unauthorised expansions to luxury homes across the city have triggered concerns over safety risks, unfairness and lax enforcement.
A fight between 14K and Wo Shing Wo triads in Hong Kong in 1975 left a 18-year-old man dead. A man was killed the next night in a revenge attack. A teenager was sentenced to death for the first murder.
Some experts say the proposed law infringes on ‘open justice’ and raise concerns over how assessments of offenders would be conducted.
Police sound alarm after employee tricked by digital recreation of company’s finance chief and others in video call.
Anson Wong, who drove for Macau’s Son Veng racing team, died in hospital day after he passed out following struggle with police.
France has suffered a series of Islamist militant attacks in recent years, but also assaults by people with mental disorders.
Officers found man, 59, lying on the ground at estate after fire broke out.
Mahathir Mohamad and Daim Zainuddin are among the old adversaries to be swept up in a wide-ranging anti-graft probe. Anwar denies he’s had a hand in it. Still, at least one observer says it’s a ‘smart move’.
Marco Raduano, described as ‘dangerous’ on Europol’s list of Europe’s most wanted criminals, escaped from a heavily secured prison last year.
Philip Chan, 59, is believed to be the first person to be served such a notice under the Foreign Interference Countermeasures Act that came into force in December.
Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe stabbed the victim 28 times in what the judge called a ‘frenzied and ferocious’ attack.
