Crime Sep 20, 2013

Police file charges in Mumbai rape

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 ...

Crime Sep 19, 2013

Singapore arrests 14 over match-fixing

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 ...

Crime Sep 19, 2013

Hong Kong couple jailed for 'inhumane' abuse of Indonesian maid

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 ...

Crime Sep 17, 2013

Top Bangladesh court sentences Islamist to hang

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced a senior Islamist leader to death for mass murder, toughening the sentence originally handed down by the country’s war crimes tribunal and sparking fresh violence. Abdul Quader Molla, 65, the fourth-highest leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, had been ...

Crime Sep 12, 2013

Porters hacked to death by PNG bandits in attack on Aussie, N.Z. trekkers

A group of Australian and New Zealand trekkers who were brutally attacked by bandits in Papua New Guinea told Thursday of their harrowing ordeal and horror as two porters were butchered. The eight tourists were in their tents on the remote jungle-clad Black Cat ...

Crime Sep 4, 2013

China graft official drowned in probe

A Chinese official was allegedly drowned by investigators who stripped him naked and held him down in a bathtub as they attempted to extort a confession of corruption, state-run media reported Wednesday. Yu Qiyi, 42, was held down by investigators in a tub full ...

Crime Sep 1, 2013

Studious victim had high hopes

The 23-year-old rape victim whose assault and death shook India and captured the attention of the world was the daughter of an airport baggage handler who was studying hard and who harbored big ambitions. She enrolled four years ago on a physiotherapy course in ...

Crime Sep 1, 2013

Woman boils up husband's corpse

A woman in eastern China murdered her husband and boiled the corpse to cover her tracks after he abused her and her daughter, a report said Saturday. The woman drugged the man, her second husband, and tortured him for three days in June by ...