An American described as a “leading drug lord” with a network spanning Asia and the United States was sent to the U.S. on a chartered plane following his arrest in Thailand, police said Friday. Joseph Manuel Hunter, 48, was handed to agents from the ...

China on Wednesday executed a street food vendor who stabbed two officials following a street dispute, provoking outrage online. The Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against Xia Junfeng, who murdered two “city management” officials after a dispute over his street stall in 2009, ...

Police in eastern China were investigating the mysterious deaths of two young sisters found in a bloody washing machine over the weekend, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Local police in Jiangxi province have ruled out murder in the case, the Global Times newspaper said, citing ...

A soccer match-fixing ring based in Singapore was the world’s “largest and most aggressive” such operation, the Interpol chief said in remarks published Tuesday after the arrest of the group’s suspected mastermind. International Criminal Police Organization Secretary-General Ronald Noble hailed the arrest in Singapore ...

Former top Chinese politician Bo Xilai will appeal his conviction and life sentence for corruption, a lawyer close to the case said Monday, adding further drama to the high-profile trial. Bo, the key figure in China’s biggest political scandal in decades, remained unusually defiant ...

Authorities on Saturday broke up a gang using a female member to lure youngsters through Facebook and telephone calls and then kidnapping them for ransom, police said. The gang, which included a lawyer, his wife, the son of a policeman and four others, was ...

Police in Mumbai have filed charges against four men and a juvenile in the gang rape of a photojournalist that fueled further debate about women’s safety after a fatal assault in New Delhi sparked mass protests. The 600-page charge sheet cites 86 witnesses and ...

Fourteen people believed to be members of an organized crime ring involved in football match-fixing activities have been arrested in police raids across Singapore, authorities said Wednesday. The Singapore Police Force and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said in a joint statement the 12 ...

A Hong Kong couple have been jailed for a shocking string of attacks on their Indonesian domestic helper, including burning her with an iron and beating her with a bike chain. Tai Chi-wai, 42, and his wife, Catherine Au, subjected their former maid, Kartika ...