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Songkran moving out of Hong Kong’s ‘Little Thailand’
Published on 09/04/2024
» HONG KONG: The water-splashing portion of Thailand's Songkran festival in Hong Kong's Kowloon City will be moved from its traditional site to a basketball court next week for the first time, following the arrest last year of three men for soaking police officers and reporters at the event.
Hong Kong police find no birth records for 2 dead infants left in glass bottles at flat
South China Morning Post, Published on 10/03/2024
» Two Hong Kong infants whose bodies were discovered inside glass jars did not have birth records, while a preliminary autopsy has found the pair were between 24 and 30 weeks old, but has yet to determine the time and cause of their deaths.
WikiLeaks’ Assange makes last stand in UK court
Published on 20/02/2024
» LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday embarked on what could be his last chance to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States after more than 13 years battling in the English courts.
Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter denied parole
Published on 07/02/2024
» LONDON - Former British pop singer Gary Glitter, who shot to fame in the 1970s as a “glam-rock” star but was later convicted of child sex crimes, has lost a bid to be released from prison on parole, officials said on Wednesday.
FBI: Chinese hackers ‘targeting US infrastructure’
Published on 31/01/2024
» WASHINGTON - Hackers linked to the Chinese government are targeting critical infrastructure in the United States, preparing to cause “real-world harm” to Americans, FBI director Christopher Wray plans to tell a US House of Representatives panel on Wednesday.
Man gets death for Japan animation fire that killed 36
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/01/2024
» KYOTO - A Japanese district court sentenced a man to death for setting a fire that killed 36 people at Kyoto Animation studios in 2019 in one of the country's biggest mass-murder cases in recent history, Kyodo News and local media said.
Russians get long prison terms for anti-war poetry
AFP, Published on 28/12/2023
» MOSCOW - A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced two men to long prison terms for reading poems against the assault on Ukraine.
US, Britain call for release of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai as trial starts
AFP, Published on 18/12/2023
» HONG KONG - The US and British governments called for the release of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who is standing trial Monday in Hong Kong for national security charges that could send him to jail for life.
French court convicts six teens for role in beheading of teacher
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» PARIS - A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by a radicalised Islamist near Paris, in a case that horrified the country.
Russia bans 'international LGBT movement' for 'extremism'
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» MOSCOW - Russia on Thursday banned the "international LGBT movement," claiming it was an extremist group in a move that cements a long crackdown on the community as the Kremlin pushes ultra-conservative social values.