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A Japanese court has convicted a man for throwing a home-made pipe bomb at Japan’s former prime minister Fumio Kishida. Ryuji Kimura was sentenced on February 19, 2025, to 10 years in prison. The 25-year-old was found guilty of attempted murder in the April 15, 2023, attack as Kishida was campaigning in a small fish…
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Hong Kong Bar Association chairman Victor Dawes has called on residents to have faith in the judiciary amid a complicated geopolitical environment, defending the city’s judges as “first class” and stressing national security cases are just one aspect of the system.
Austin Bell set out to catalogue and photograph every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong, ultimately finding 2,549
The US Supreme Court on January 17, 2025, upheld a law requiring TikTok, the popular Chinese short-video app, to be banned in the United States unless it secures a non-Chinese buyer by January 19. The ruling delivered a significant blow to TikTok, which has 170 million American users, amid escalating concerns over n…
High Court jury unanimously finds Malaysian anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun guilty of causing the deaths of his wife and daughter
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Corruption Investigation Office officials called off the arrest after a six-hour stand-off with Yoon’s supporters and security personnel at his residence
The ruling junta freed over 6,000 prisoners under a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain
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Israeli authorities have opened an investigation into Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over allegations that she attempted to influence a witness involved in her husband’s ongoing corruption trial.
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Lawmakers in South Korea have voted 204 to 300 in favour of impeaching South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. The impeachment vote, which took place on December 14, 2024, came amid continued protests over the president’s attempt to impose martial law on December 3, 2024. The move plunged the nation into a constitutio…
While thousands of angry citizens gathered in Seoul, members of the president’s PPP party boycotted the vote to remove him from office
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Hong Kong’s top court has upheld three landmark judgments granting equal housing and inheritance rights to same-sex couples. The Court of Final Appeal on November 26, 2024, unanimously dismissed the government’s appeals seeking to preserve the discriminatory housing policies and intestacy laws. They were declared un…
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Washington has vowed to impose fresh sanctions in the form of visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials responsible for implementing the national security law. The threat was in response to the “harsh sentences” a court handed down to 45 opposition activists convicted of subversion. The warning from the Unit…
Former legal academic and activist Benny Tai Yiu-ting, who initiated an unofficial “primary” election in Hong Kong in 2020, has been jailed for 10 years for conspiring to subvert state power. The 60-year-old is among 45 opposition politicians and activists sentenced on November 19, 2024. They were among 47 who stood…
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Hong Kong is preparing dozens of trial events at the city’s enormous new Kai Tak Sports Park ahead of its official opening in the first quarter of 2025. The park will cover about 28 hectares (69 acres), making it the city’s largest venue for sports and other mega-events. The main stadium is set to host several mega-…
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Japan's new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, faces a crisis within his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) just a month into his term. Despite being favoured by the public for his clean image, he has had to contend with internal opposition after the ruling party lost seats in the general election held on October 27, 2024.…
For the past 79 years, North Korea has been ruled by the Kim family dynasty. What started as a communist country has become a secretive nationalist dictatorship handed over from father to son to grandson, ruling over 23 million people who are forbidden access to outside information. North Korea watchers say the main…
A robot company has carried out trial tests on robot dogs designed to help carry heavy goods and waste up and down Mount Tai in eastern China.
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Two former editors of the now-defunct Stand News in Hong Kong have been sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiring to publish seditious articles, with one being given immediate release because he suffered from a rare disease. The District Court judge handed down the sentences on September 26, 2024, almost a mon…
Condemned Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan went on trial again on September 19, 2024, for additional fraud charges, state media reported. The chairwoman of real estate developer Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group was sentenced to death in April after being found guilty of masterminding what is believed to be V…
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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori died of cancer on September 11, 2024, at the age of 86. A deeply divisive figure in Peru, Fujimori steered economic growth during the 1990s only to later end up jailed for 25 years for human rights abuses. In 2017, then-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori on h…
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