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The High Court in Admiralty. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong courts

Taiwanese man jailed for 12 years in final case of beleaguered Hong Kong judge

Judge Wilson Chan hands down prison sentence in drug trafficking case, after being told to retire over repeated judicial plagiarism.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

How does Hong Kong’s new end-of-life law affect patients and medical staff?

Crime

Legal Tales | Could you identify a criminal? It’s harder than you think

Malaysia

Malaysia clamps down on social media-fuelled hiking risks

The rescue burden of searching for hikers in remote terrain often requires specialist teams, aircraft and days of searching.

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Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia is mulling checks for high-altitude illness and acute mountain sickness, particularly for climbers attempting Mount Kinabalu. Photo: Shutterstock
Crime in Hong Kong

Letters | Law reform ought not overlook long-term child sexual abuse

Readers discuss the necessity of a new offence for persistent child sexual abuse, and why the Iran war is unpopular among Nato countries.

Hong Kong courts

Editorial | Retirement of Hong Kong judge over plagiarism is in judiciary’s interest

The chief justice helped secure public confidence in the judiciary and honoured judges’ security of tenure by requesting rather than demanding that the judge step down.

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Malaysia

Malaysian police raid online scam centres in Johor, arrest 335 people

Those arrested include 309 Chinese nationals, 19 Indonesians and ⁠three Malaysians, with assets worth about US$245,000 also seized.

An aerial view of the Forest City development in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in December 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE
United States

As I see it | America declares international law for thee but not for me

While the US is seeking to dismantle the International Criminal Court, it has signed a statement upholding the Hague tribunal’s South China Sea ruling.

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Britain

UK funeral director faces jail over bodies left ‘on racks’

Police searched his premises and found 31 bodies in a cold storage area that should have been cremated months earlier.

Singapore

Singapore detains 3 ‘self-radicalised’ teens over planned attacks

The teens, aged 14 to 19, were held under the Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial.

People ride bikes past the skyline of the central business district in Singapore. Singapore detained three teenagers over separate plots to carry out shooting, stabbing and bomb attacks. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong High Court judge Wilson Chan told to retire over repeated plagiarism

Chief Justice Andrew Cheung says Chan’s repeated judicial plagiarism has undermined public confidence in his ability to discharge his duties.

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Justice Wilson Chan will retire at the end of the month. Photo: Jasmine Siu
Crime

Were the German courts too soft on Chinese members of drug rape network?

The sentencing of four men to up to 14 years in prison has highlighted a very different approach to justice compared with China.

Malaysia

Malaysian police receive report against Sanusi over race-linked campaign remarks

The Kedah chief minister says Malaysian Chinese and Indians have other homelands whereas the Malays have only Malaysia.

South Korea

SK Group chief ordered to pay US$644 million in South Korea’s biggest divorce

If finalised, the High Court ruling means Chey Tae-won’s break from Roh Soh-yeong will be South Korea’s most expensive divorce ever.

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won attends a retrial regarding the division of assets with his former wife, Roh Soh-yeong, on June 26. Photo: Yonhap/AFP
Hong Kong courts

Editorial | Plagiarism should have no place in Hong Kong’s judiciary

The case of a judge being found for a second time to have extensively plagiarised submissions from lawyers when writing judgments raises concern.

People outside the High Court in Admiralty in May 2024. Wilson Chan Ka-shun, who has served as a judge for 13 years, will face a “serious reprimand” from both the chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal and chief judge of the High Court. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
South Korea

Guilty verdict leaves South Korea’s top conservative ‘a wounded lame duck’

A campaign finance conviction threatens to end Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon’s presidential ambitions, just weeks after winning a fifth term.

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The Philippines

Philippines’ impeachment trial: court ruling heightens stakes for VP Sara

Ruling allowing access to key financial records could give prosecutors a clearer route to show she amassed ill-gotten wealth, analysts say.

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Cambodia

Asia-Pacific cyberscam victims lost up to US$114 billion last year: UN

The losses from online scams, mostly investment fraud, are at least triple that from 2023, reflecting a ‘dramatic scaling’, the report says.

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A Thai soldier walks near small booths lined with acoustic foam used to make scam calls inside a compound in Cambodia’s O’Smach border town on February 2. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Trump turns to China in renewed US birthright citizenship push

After losing in court, administration targets alleged Chinese ‘birth tourism’ with prosecutions and new legislative efforts.

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Malaysia

Malaysian court acquits BN politician’s widow Zizie Izette after 7-year legal battle

The former actress had been accused of abetting her late husband, BN politician Bung Moktar Radin, in an alleged US$685,000 bribery case.

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Hong Kong society

9 tickets, 110 warnings issued after construction site smoking ban takes effect

Authorities have inspected over 200 construction sites since the ban began on Friday last week, labour commissioner says.

Workers put their cigarettes and lighters inside designated lockers before entering a construction site in To Kwa Kwan. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Committee pushes reforms, thanks fire survivors as hearing ends – as it happened

Legal counsel for independent panel investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades delivers closing remarks at final public inquiry session.

Last November’s fire at Wang Fuk Court killed 168 people. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Deceitful firms mostly to blame for deadly Tai Po blaze, government counsel says

Jenkin Suen attributes Wang Fuk Court inferno to ‘deceit, inaction and deliberate omission’ of contractors who exploited regulatory regimes.

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Italy

Ex-Italian highway chief jailed for 12 years over Genoa bridge disaster

Giovanni Castellucci was convicted of vehicle homicide and negligence after a bridge in Genoa collapsed in 2018, killing 43 people.

Germany

German far-right activist sent to men’s prison despite gender change

Liebich, who was sentenced as a man, legally changed gender after Germany’s Self-Determination Act came into effect in 2024.

Marla-Svenja Liebich, a convicted German far-right extremist formerly known as Sven Liebich, is escorted by Czech prison service to the regional court on May 18. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy

Tai Po fire: 5 ‘key weaknesses’ flagged in government regulations – as it happened

Witness says the system itself does not have fundamental flaws, but it lacks a mechanism to target unscrupulous collusion.

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Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong Bar Association (HKBA)

Legal Tales | Everything you never wanted to know about hosting the World Cup

Why lawyers have to keep their eye on the ball when nations become eager to host the next Fifa World Cup.

Thailand

Thai police arrest boxing camp manager for trafficking underage boys for sex

The suspect was captured after undercover officers posed as clients seeking sexual services from three boys aged 13, 15 and 16.

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