The conviction Friday of the heir to the Samsung business empire could add impetus to new President Moon Jae-in's campaign pledges to reform South Korea's powerful conglomerates — an effort that eluded his reformist successors. Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to five years in prison for bribery and other offenses in connection ...
In most cases, the conviction of a Thai man trafficking rhino horns through a bizarre scheme that involved hiring prostitutes ...
A Philippine official on Friday ordered the relief of an entire city police force in metropolitan Manila after some of ...
A Taiwanese pro-democracy activist pleaded guilty Monday to subverting state power in China's first criminal prosecution of a nonprofit worker since Beijing passed a law tightening controls over foreign nongovernmental organizations. Lee Ming-che's supporters, though, quickly said he had been forced to confess to crimes ...
The police in Indonesia said Monday they believe an elderly Japanese couple found dead in Bali last week were murdered, citing business troubles as a possible motive. Denpasar Police Chief Hadi Purnomo told reporters that investigators will "bring in a business colleague from Japan in ...
The Philippine president ordered police on Tuesday to let journalists join raids in his crackdown on illegal drugs to disprove growing allegations of extrajudicial killings, but warned reporters they could get shot. President Rodrigo Duterte issued the order in a news conference after a televised ...
China's parliament has passed a draft law that criminalizes acts deemed insulting to the national anthem, even if committed in the territories of Hong Kong and Macao, according to a legal affairs official. The National Anthem Law was passed Friday by the National People's Congress ...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in the murder trial of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, nearly 10 years after the iconic political figure was gunned down in the streets of Rawalpindi. The court dismissed charges against five ...
In a teeming prison for undertrials in the Philippines' capital Manila, Rody Lacanilao, an inmate for 18 months, says he prays for clear weather at night. A downpour, he says, will prevent him and hundreds of fellow prisoners in the Quezon City jail from sleeping ...
A North Korean court sentenced two South Korean journalists and their publishers to death for "seriously insulting the dignity" of the country by reviewing and interviewing the British authors of a book about life in the North, its state media said on Thursday. North Korea ...
A Pakistan court Thursday branded former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial, but acquitted five men accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination. The verdicts are the first to be issued since Bhutto, the first female prime ...
Interpol has issued an international request for the arrest of the billionaire heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune, stepping up of the hunt for the fugitive Thai playboy wanted in a 2012 hit-and-run incident that left a traffic policeman dead in Bangkok. Thai ...
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee has filed an appeal against the five-year prison term he was given for bribery and other charges through his lawyer, according to the Seoul Central District Court's website Monday. The website did not give any details about the ...
An Indian court on Monday sentenced a controversial spiritual leader to 10 years in prison for raping two of his devotees, days after his followers went on a rampage that left 38 dead. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, 50, was convicted Friday of raping the two ...
More than a thousand mourners attended a funeral procession in a northern Manila suburb on Saturday for a high school student whose killing a week earlier by anti-drug officers has caused rare public outrage about the country's war on drugs. Kian Loyd delos Santos was ...
