How China Operates Covert 'Police Precincts' Around the Globe
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New details are emerging of how four children survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle following a plane crash that killed their mother, the pilot and one other adult on board. The young survivors are now recovering at a military hospital in Colombia after being rescued on June 9, 2023. They reportedly subsisted on cas…
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Four children and two adults were injured in a knife attack near a lake in the French Alps on June 8, 2023. Two of the toddlers were in critical but stable condition. The suspect is a 31-year-old Syrian man who was granted asylum in Sweden. But police investigators say there was no immediate evidence to suggest terr…
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A three-day carnival co-hosted by 26 pro-Beijing groups is being held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park to mark 26 years since the city's return to Chinese rule. Day two of the event falls on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, which for decades had been marked in the park's football pitches with a ca…
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A former Canadian soldier accused of the 2022 killing of a gang member on the Thai island of Phuket, was extradited to the capital Bangkok on May 28, 2023. Thai police officers called Matthew Dupre a “contract killer” and “the most wanted suspect” for his alleged involvement in a transnational crime group.
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A 95-year-old woman who was tasered by an officer in Australia has died a week after, police announced on May 24, 2023. Clare Nowland suffered from dementia and was living in a nursing home. The officer, Kristian White, reportedly used a stun gun on the victim as she approached him with a walking frame and a steak k…
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An overnight fire in a secondary school dormitory housing over 60 students in Guyana left at least 19 children dead on May 22, 2023. More than 23 injured were sent to a local hospital while several others were airlifted to the capital, Georgetown. Initial investigations point to possible arson.
G7 protesters clashed with police on the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on May 21, 2023, as world leaders met to discuss the war in Ukraine as well as China. The protests, held in the city devastated by an atomic bomb attack in 1945, denounced the meeting of member countries holding nuclear capabilities. Organised by f…
Court proceedings have been continuing into the murder of Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung, who was killed in February 2023. The dismembered body of the young mother of four was found inside a rented village home in the New Territories. Her ex-husband and three of the victim’s former in-laws stand accused of t…
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Scheme capitalising on Hong Kong women’s Olympics success to empower youth‘I was always really scared to go to a court or park because there are a lot of guys there’ says one student as WISE HK rolls out coaching sessions, company visits and gender role discussions for city’s young women.
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Holly Chik presents the latest update on AI in mainland China. William Zheng reports on the first person arrested for using ChatGPT to generate fake news; while tech reporters Ben Jiang and Coco Feng explain the lag of China’s tech companies as they try to catch up, amid the start of the first wave of AI-related job…
Pakistan’s supreme court ordered the release of former prime minister Imran Khan from custody on May 11, 2023. The top court declared Khan's arrest “invalid” and ruled that legal proceedings against him would be reversed. The order came two days after Khan was detained on a graft allegation that sparked violent and …
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US Representative George Santos has pleaded not guilty to 13 charges over fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. The first-term Republican congressman vowed to fight the charges, calling his prosecution a “witch hunt” during remarks to reporters outside court in Long Island, New York on May 10, 2023. Des…
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Thai police have formally charged a woman who is under arrest for using cyanide to murder friends and acquaintances over several years. Fourteen charges of premeditated murder as well as one count of attempted murder were filed against Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn on May 3, 2023. Police said the woman killed her victims …
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A police station director in eastern China’s Anhui province reprimanded a man who pranked a delivery worker by giving a bogus address and poor review online. The officer earned praises online after he rebuked the man, telling him he should respect others and not to do such a thing again.
The location of Sudan’s former dictator, Omar al-Bashir, is unclear after fighting in the capital Khartoum reached the Kober prison where he has been held for four years. Bashir ruled the country for three decades before he was overthrown in a popular uprising in 2019. The Sudanese military said the former leader wa…
Bangkok police have arrested a Thai woman who is suspected of murdering 13 people with cyanide. All of the victims were allegedly known friends and acquaintances of 36-year-old Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn. The woman was taken into custody in the Thai capital on April 26, 2023, for questioning and authorities have refuse…
The family of a Japanese journalist killed while reporting on Myanmar's 2007 "Saffron Revolution" released his last pictures on Wednesday, sharing footage from a recently obtained video camera that went missing since his death 15 years ago. Kenji Nagai was shot by Myanmar military while reporting on the 2007 mass de…
Business owners in Sudan’s capital Khartoum have warned of a “catastrophic” shortage of food and medicine supplies, after the city’s airport closed amid ongoing fighting. Supplies have been running low since fighting broke out between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on April 15, 2023. Kh…
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Protesters in Bangladesh took to the streets on April 24, 2023, to mark the 10th anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex that killed more than 1,100 garment workers near the capital Dhaka. Despite signs of cracks seen before the building collapse, workers were forced to stay in the building by …
Two explosions at a Counterterrorism Department unit ammunition depot in Pakistan’s Swat Valley have killed at least 13 people and injured 50 others. An official said the April 24, 2023, blasts happened after ammunition caught fire following an electric short-circuit and there was no immediate indication that it was…
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