A university student who launched a cyber attack on a bank's website at the height of the Occupy protests in 2014 has avoided a jail term after a Fanling magistrates' court sentenced him to 15 months ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-26
A former Wall Street investment banker faces trial in Manhattan for insider trading, the first since a US appeals court curtailed the ability federal prosecutors to pursue such cases. Sean Stewart, an ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
Southeast Asian nations failed to agree on maritime disputes in the South China Sea after Cambodia blocked any mention to an international court ruling against Beijing in their statement, Reuters repo ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
... rnational Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) both have established procedures concerning the withdrawal of a previous ruling, only if there is some irrefuta ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
Three prominent student leaders who were declared guilty by a local court Thursday in connection with charges related to the 2014 Occupy protests have said that they don't regret their actions. Joshua ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-22
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague may not be as prestigious as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) but its decisions should not be underestimated. This is because the tribunal ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... appear in court on Friday. Fung faces charges of criminal intimidation, criminal damage and attempted forcible entry, stemming from his role in the Jan. 26 siege which held up vice chancellor Peter M ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... a federal court referred to "Malaysian Official 1" in the complaint, a reference believed to be of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who had overseen the state fund. The Justice Department said U ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... bitration court in The Hague that invalidated its vast territorial claims in the South China Sea. It refused to take part in the proceedings brought by the Philippines. China has repeatedly blamed the ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... a federal court in New York. The move came in the wake of an investigation by the US Justice Department into foreign-exchange rigging at global banks. HSBC said it cooperating in the US probe. Prosecu ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-21
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that China’s claims of sovereignty over most of the South China Sea have no legal basis and that Beijing had violated the Philippines’ sovereign right ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
The Philippines is refusing to negotiate with China over their South China Sea dispute because of Beijing's insistence that a court ruling that nullified most of its claims be left off the table. Phil ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
Two years ago, in my article on the South China Sea arbitration case, I stressed that it was the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), rather than the much more well-known International Court of Justi ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-20
... rnational Court of Justice in The Hague against his own country, the United States. The ICJ held that the US violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicarag ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... district court on Monday, Apple Daily reports. Chan was born in mainland China and migrated to Hong Kong in 1997. He and the lady met through instant messaging app WeChat at the start of the year, an ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague censured Beijing’s efforts to build man-made islands in the disputed seas and ruled that there was no historical basis for its claim to 85 percent of the wa ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... s hall. A court remanded 26 generals and admirals in custody on Monday, Turkish media said. Nearly 20,000 members of the police, civil service, judiciary and army have been detained or suspended since ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-19
... Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, not a court of law, provided clerical support as an organizer of the tribunal. Beijing decided against naming a judge to the panel and did not ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... rnational court into delivering an adverse ruling against Beijing, "patriotic" Chinese shunned restaurant chains such as KFC, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. Showing ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
... in making court rulings. More generally we have seen a swathe of acts of retaliation against pro-democracy figures ranging from the absurd attempt at censorship by a cosmetics company to the more subs ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-18
