Hong Kong students as young as 11 years old accounted for a fifth of the victims of “naked-chat blackmail” in the first half of this year, prompting police on Monday to warn residents to be cautious while meeting people online. The crime typically involves scammers luring victims into disrobing during video chats and then threatening…
Text size Chinese authorities have disciplined more than 50 officials and arrested 10 people suspected of criminal liability in a deadly fire that killed dozens in January, state media reported Saturday. The fire in the city of Xinyu in central China’s Jiangxi province trapped many people, killing 39 and injuring nine. Public prosecutors approved the…
A 52-year-old woman has been arrested for suspected child neglect after her two grandchildren were rescued by firefighters from a burning flat in Hong Kong’s Tsz Wan Shan on Saturday. Police were alerted at 11.45am to two children being trapped alone in a high-rise flat at Lok Moon House at Tsz Lok Estate with smoke…
China is outraged after officials in eastern China said that a case in which a boy stabbed his classmate more than 200 times with a sewing awl over three months “did not meet the standards of bullying”. According to the victim’s parents, their daughter was stabbed in her thigh by a male transfer student at…
HONG KONG — The first person convicted under a tough new Hong Kong national security law was sentenced on Thursday to 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan. Chu Kai-pong, 27, wore a shirt on June 12 reading “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” a slogan chanted during anti-government…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests. The app’s alleged administrator, Jay Je Yoon Jung, 32, appeared in a Sydney court Wednesday on charges including supporting a criminal organization and benefitting from proceeds of crime. Jung did not…
Elon Musk attends the “Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk” session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 – Day Three in Cannes, France, on June 19, 2024. Marc Piasecki | Getty Images Tesla CEO and X majority owner Elon Musk wrote and then deleted a…