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South Korean prosecutors have indicted former President Moon Jae-in for alleged corruption.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Apr 24, 2025

South Korea prosecutors indict ex-President Moon Jae-in for corruption

By Kang Jin-kyu

The case is related to the appointment of his former son-in-law at a Thai airline.

Multinational victims of scam centers, who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, stand on a vessel floating towards the Thai side of border via Moei River in Phop Phra District, Tak province, Thailand, on Feb. 12.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Apr 21, 2025

'Cancer' of billion-dollar cyberscam industry spreading globally: U.N.

By Poppy McPherson

Even as Southeast Asian governments have intensified a crackdown, syndicates have moved within and beyond the region.

Rescue personnel search for survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Bangkok on April 2, five days after an earthquake struck central Myanmar and Thailand. Thai authorities say they have arrested a Chinese executive at a company that was building the skyscraper.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Apr 21, 2025

Exec linked to Bangkok building collapse arrested

The skyscraper was the only major building in the capital to fall in the catastrophic March 28 earthquake.

Mean Loeuy (center), a survivor of a Khmer Rouge labor camp, tells his story to a group of children during an outreach program at a school in Phnom Srok district in Banteay Meanchey province.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Apr 16, 2025

Lessons in horror with Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal

By Alexis HONTANG and Suy SE

A team led by a lawyer is traveling around Cambodia teaching schoolchildren about Pol Pot's brutal regime, sharing 20 years' worth of evidence and testimony from victims.

A Ukrainian rescuer walks by a burned car in front of damaged building at the site of a missile attack in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on Sunday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Apr 14, 2025

Bangladesh families seek sons feared fighting for Russia

By Sheikh Sabiha ALAM

Around a dozen families have contacted Dhaka's embassy in Moscow to seek help bringing back their sons they allege were duped into joining the Russian army.

Taiwan said in January it suspected a China-linked ship of damaging an undersea cable off its northern coast; the ship owner denied the accusations.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Apr 11, 2025

In a first, Taiwan charges Chinese ship captain with damaging undersea cables

By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard

The captain, surnamed Wang, has claimed innocence, but refused to provide details of the ship's owner and "had a bad attitude," Taiwanese prosecutors said.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seen on a screen in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 14.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Mar 31, 2025

After Duterte's arrest, Philippine drug war victims face abuse and online falsehoods

By Karen Lema and Poppy McPherson

A surge of false claims has swept social media since the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte, with supporters claiming the ICC had no jurisdiction and calling it a "kidnapping."

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.

Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.

By Tomoko Otake

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Fujitsu crafts sustainable innovation for itself, society

Fujitsu crafts sustainable innovation for itself, society

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