Hong Kong regulators freeze US$15.9 million linked to suspected IPO fraud
Regulator action comes amid broader push to strengthen IPO safeguards after rapid market recovery
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Newest first · UTC+11:00Hong Kong regulators freeze US$15.9 million linked to suspected IPO fraud
Regulator action comes amid broader push to strengthen IPO safeguards after rapid market recovery
· Peggy Ye
Nigeria deports pangolin scales trafficker to China
Nigerian police on Wednesday said they had arrested and deported a Chinese man who had trafficked 12 tonnes of pangolin scales to China.
· AfricaNews
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye in intensive care: wife
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been hospitalized and is unconscious after he collapsed during a courtroom session of his treason trial, according to his wife and others who are urging authorities to set him free after repeated bail denials.
· AfricaNews
Attack on northwest Pakistan police post kills 11 officers
An ambush on a police checkpoint in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has killed at least 11 police officers and injured dozens, according to local authorities.
· Al Jazeera Staff
Inside police operation to halt stolen car chase
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Israeli scientists launch world-first clinical trial for experimental pancreatic cancer treatment
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center will become the first medical center worldwide to recruit patients for a clinical trial of an experimental treatment targeting KRAS mutations in pancreatic cancer, the hospital and Israeli biotechnology company Silexion Therapeutics announced.
· JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police respond to Ashdod gunfire, seize cocaine and illegal weapons in overnight raids
Shots were reportedly fired outside an event hall in Ashdod overnight on Wednesday, according to police. No injuries or deaths were reported.
· MAYA ZANGER-NADIS
WATCH: Ambulance driver arrested, accused of spying for Iran, providing footage of hospitals
Israeli security forces on Thursday submitted an indictment against 34-year-old Israeli citizen Amir Hisham Muhammad Titi, who is accused of carrying out operations on behalf of Iran. He was arrested several weeks before the indictment, police noted.
· MAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Hong Kong doctor spared jail for fraudulently obtaining cough syrup, ADHD drugs
Lee Chi-leung handed 160 hours of community service and ordered to pay Hospital Authority HK$20,000 for two counts of misconduct in public office
· Brian Wong
Hong Kong doctor spared jail for fraudulently obtaining cough syrup, ADHD drugs
Lee Chi-leung handed 160 hours of community service and ordered to pay Hospital Authority HK$20,000 for two counts of misconduct in public office
· Brian Wong
Malaysia’s Anwar seizes on haj fund report ahead of Negeri Sembilan election
The prime minister’s reiteration of his anti-corruption message is seen as a move to put Umno on the back foot
· Ushar Daniele
Malaysia’s Anwar seizes on haj fund report ahead of Negeri Sembilan election
The prime minister’s reiteration of his anti-corruption message is seen as a move to put Umno on the back foot
· Ushar Daniele
Families may wait longer for triple-murder crash trial
Families of three people killed in a triple-fatal highway crash might have to wait another year for an alleged murderer’s trial.
· Rex Martinich
BOK participates in real value testing of int'l tokenization project
SEOUL, July 30 (Yonhap) -- The Bank of Korea (BOK) said Thursday it has participated in a trial involving real-value transactions on a digital currency platform under an international project exploring the use of tokenization in wholesale cross-border payments.
· Kim Boram
Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed.
By the end of 2020, Kentucky’s newly elected Gov. Andy Beshear had one goal above all others: Keep people alive. The state was battling two merciless threats. COVID-19 was killing hundreds of people each month, and deadly drug overdoses were among the highest in the nation. Calling addiction a disease that breeds in…
· Alex Acquisto and Taylor Six
Fashion police on the bench: Magistrate pulled up for open-neck shirt lecture
As if there aren’t enough problems with Victoria’s legal system, a magistrate has now been rapped over the knuckles for making disparaging remarks about a lawyer’s fashion sense.
· Fiona Byrne
Islamist terrorists kill 10 police officers in northwest Pakistan, say police
A drone attack and ambush by Islamist terrorists at a police post in northwest Pakistan killed at least 10 officers, police said, the second such assault within a week.
· REUTERS
MK Sharren Haskel summoned by Lahav 433 in connection with Comptroller election scandal
MK Sharren Haskel was summoned by Lahav 433 to testify regarding the election of the State Comptroller, which the High Court of Justice ruled invalid, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
· JERUSALEM POST STAFF, SARAH BEN-NUN
'Sadness' falls across coastal community after double murder-suicide
Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 6:19pm
· Aiden Mcnamara
Big fishers win as Supreme Court declares tracking at sea unconstitutional
PORT. A photo of Navotas Fish Port Complex taken November 2022.
· Iya Gozum
Ugandan opposition leader Besigye is unconscious in hospital after court collapse
Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, second left centre, arrives in a civilian court in Kampala, Uganda on Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)
· Rodney Muhumuza
3 arrested, 1 red-noticed in 12.3 bln-won crypto scam
SEOUL, July 30 (Yonhap) -- Three people have been arrested and one has been red-noticed on suspicion of defrauding investors out of 12.3 billion won (US$8.55 million) in an alleged cryptocurrency scam, police said Thursday.
· KIM, SEONGHUN
Prominent Darwin doctor allegedly caught with up to 1m child abuse files
Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 5:49pm
· Olivana Lathouris
East Timor court review of Myanmar war crimes tests Asean’s uneasy approach to junta
The case, which alleges abuses in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin state, is now under consideration by the Dili courts
· Maria Siow
East Timor court review of Myanmar war crimes tests Asean’s uneasy approach to junta
The case, which alleges abuses in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin state, is now under consideration by the Dili courts
· Maria Siow
Veteran Ugandan opposition leader collapses in court and in ICU, his wife saysThe 70 year old has been in detention since November 2024 and faces treason charges, which he denies.58 mins agoAfrica
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in the capital, Kampala, after collapsing unconscious in court during his treason trial, his wife has said.
· Wycliffe Muia
Taiwanese man jailed for 12 years in embattled Hong Kong judge’s last case
Judge Wilson Chan hands down prison sentence in drug trafficking case, after being told to retire over repeated judicial plagiarism
· Brian Wong
Taiwanese man jailed for 12 years in embattled Hong Kong judge’s last case
Judge Wilson Chan hands down prison sentence in drug trafficking case, after being told to retire over repeated judicial plagiarism
· Brian Wong
Turkish police detain actor-turned-politician in latest raids targeting opposition
Turkish actor Erdal Besikcioglu poses at a photo call for the film ‘Honey’ at the International Film Festival Berlinale inBerlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
· Andrew Wilks
‘They played noughts and crosses on the PM’s huge forehead!’ An Indian standup picks his favourite gen Z protest memes
They turned the news into a Funny or Die video. They cooked up a romcom between PM Modi and Giorgia Meloni. And they fought the police with Lana del Rey memes. Our writer observes the Cockroach party’s bold new strategy
· Anuvab Pal
South Korea’s women web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn
Seoul – Under banners emblazoned “Solidarity” and “We stand together with victims,“ a group of female South Korean digital detectives dredges the internet for a scourge of illegal AI-enabled pornography.
· No Author
Trial hears former Broome bishop invited man to barbecue, ‘inappropriately touched him’
A former Catholic bishop invited an Indigenous teen to his home for a barbecue and then inappropriately touched him, a jury has been told.
· Aaron Bunch
Attack on checkpoint kills 9 police in northern Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Armed militants killed nine police officers in an attack on a checkpoint in northern Pakistan on Wednesday that also left 15 of the gunmen dead in ensuing fighting, police said.
· Agence France-Presse
Suspected drug deal turned alleged kidnapping lands NRL star's cousin in court
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Germany defends deporting non-criminal to Afghanistan
BERLIN — The German government on Wednesday defended its decision to deport an Afghan back to their homeland despite not being convicted of any crime.
· Agence France-Presse
Deadly overnight raid on Pakistani police post leaves 11 officers and 15 attackers dead
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from an overnight deadly militant attack on a police post in northwestern Pakistan rose to 11 early Thursday, police and a government official said.
'I killed a person:' TLV court sentences Solomon Madmon to life for murder of family member
The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Solomon Madmon to life in prison on Thursday for the aggravated murder of Yosef Yosefia, the father of Madmon’s daughter-in-law. Madmon was also convicted of additional offenses, and the court ordered him to pay compensation to Yosefia’s children.
· GILAD MORAG
Police detain opposition mayor in Turkish Ankara district in dawn raid over corruption claims
Turkish police detained an opposition mayor of Ankara's Etimesgut district on Thursday, among others, during a corruption investigation, broadcaster NTV and other media said.
· REUTERS
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie takes stand in WAtoday defamation trial
Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 4:26pm
· Lauren Smith
Why I leaked the secret tape: Hastie defends sharing toxic soil recording
Federal Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has taken the stand in a long-running defamation trial brought about by a Perth property developer, claiming he was concerned the West Australian government was going to use the Peel region as a “dumping ground for toxic soil”.
· Holly Thompson
Watch : Marcos OKs release of Duterte's tax records
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has authorized the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to submit the tax records of Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, to the Senate Impeachment Court. BIR representatives delivered Duterte’s tax documents enclosed in a red box to the Office of Senate Secr…
· The Manila Times
DR Congo: Opposition fury as Tshisekedi edges closer to third term
DR Congo opposition politicians, members of the opposition coalition nicknamed "C64", rejected the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the referendum law, which could see President Felix Tshisekedi run for a third term after a referendum.
· AfricaNews
4 months’ jail for security guard who dumped building resident’s cat in rubbish bin
Chou Wing-lok’s callous action ‘literally sent the cat to the landfill’, magistrate says, and sentences him for one count of animal cruelty
· Fiona Chow
4 months’ jail for security guard who dumped building resident’s cat in rubbish bin
Chou Wing-lok’s callous action ‘literally sent the cat to the landfill’, magistrate says, and sentences him for one count of animal cruelty
· Fiona Chow
Police look for two men over Perth robbery
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Jefferson Lewis Kumanjayi Little Baby murder case returns to court
Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 3:31pm
· Elsie Lange
MI5 agent murder report led to secret police phone checks
Denis Donaldson was seen as a key figure in Sinn Fein's rise as a political party
· Bbcnews
OVP, defense decline comment on Marcos approval of BIR records release
MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Vice President and Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team declined to comment Thursday after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. authorized the Bureau of Internal Revenue to release the tax records of Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, to the Senate Impeachment Court.
· James Daniel Danio