Former President Fidel V. Ramos is on a mission to rekindle friendly relations with China strained by an international court ruling over disputed waters in the South China Sea in favor of the Philippi ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-09
... the main court complex in Quetta, senior police official Nadeem Shah told Reuters. Police cordoned off the hospital following the blast, restricting access to the area. Targeted killings have become ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
Solicitor Mary Jean Reimer is said to be filing a lawsuit with the High Court on Monday against Sik Chi-ding, the Buddhist nun accused of stealing money from Ting Wai Monastery in Tai Po last October. ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... reaking a court order more than a year ago, the island's state-owned Central News Agency said. Liu was fined NT$1,000 (US$31.7) for using a mobile phone while riding a scooter and was later handed ov ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... about the court rulings afterwards, hence the charges of “treason” against the professor. In fact, Chiang was only an innocent victim of an ongoing political conflict between the ruling Democratic Pro ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
... an at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland, sport's highest court. "It is prejudice and politicization ... There will be a legal appeal to CAS," Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
Iran has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist detained in 2010 when he returned home from the United States, after a court convicted him of spying for Washington, Reuters reports, citing a spokesman ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-08
Hu Shigen (胡石根), a veteran Chinese democracy activist, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison by a Tianjin court Wednesday on charges of subverting state power. After graduating from Peking ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-05
... al of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), said when asked if there was enough time for other athletes to have their ban overturned. "It's a first step," he said, referring to the Thursday's ruli ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-05
... filed in court on July 20. Goldman Sachs, which earned close to US$600 million to arrange and underwrite the 1MDB bonds, was not accused of any wrongdoing in the lawsuits. But they allege investors w ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-05
... to seek a court ruling on the disqualification of certain candidates due to their political views, several pro-Beijing legal experts are sending signals that the National People's Congress could preem ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-04
A court in the Chinese city of Tianjin on Wednesday sentenced a democracy and religious freedom advocate to seven-and-a-half years in prison. Hu Shigen (胡石根), 61, was handed the jail term after he was ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-04
... that the court would rule in favor of Leung in his petition and that could result in his election. Leong said Beijing, which he believes is behind the new election requirement, is only helping the ca ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-03
... People's Court, following a half-day trial, also ordered that Zhai be strippped of his political rights for four years, the report said. Zhai was among 300 lawyers and activists arrested since July l ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-03
... rime by a court of law. As such, there is no reason for the government to block a candidate with a political stance that is different from that subscribed to by the administration. It is now quite cle ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
... istrate's court on Tuesday, charged with theft. A police spokesman said Cheung's arrest came after the Hong Kong police learned from their Guangdong counterparts that Cheung was about to return to Hon ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-02
... waiting a court hearing. Police did not give a motive for the alleged attack. Apple Daily, citing Chinese media reports, says Liang was preparing to board a China Eastern flight to Shanghai with her f ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-01
China's leadership is resisting pressure from elements within the military for a stronger response to an international court's ruling over South China Sea claims, Reuters reported, citing sources. War ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-01
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled on July 12 that China’s claims of sovereignty over most of the South China Sea have no legal basis and that Beijing had violated the Philippines’ sove ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
... ions in a court in a bid to get the new electoral rule quashed, but a judge ruled Wednesday that there is no need for an urgent hearing. Following the setback, independence-leaning candidates were fa ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
