A UK court has convicted 14 people of plotting to steal rhino horns and Chinese artifacts worth nearly US$80 million from museums across the country. The accused were senior members of an internationa ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
... Hong Kong court recently found some villagers in the New Territories guilty of a fraud againstthe Lands Department for selling their "small house" rights to a developer. The kuk expressed its concern ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
... istrates' court heard. Court documents showed he had been under stress from a coming exam. The judge ordered him to pay the government HK$6,000 in damages and undergo psychological counseling. He is u ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
A 71-year-old man accused of attacking a student activist during the Occupy Movement in 2014, walked free on Tuesday after the High Court overturned his earlier conviction, Apple Daily reports. Man Ho ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
Brazilian police arrested a senior Facebook Inc. executive Tuesday over a court's demand that the firm provide data from its WhatsApp messaging service to help in a drug-trafficking investigation, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
... son, the court heard. The boy, now 13, did not tell his parents until last year, worried he might have gotten the woman pregnant, according to court documents. The parents filed a police report short ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... tion, the court heard. Judge Frankie Yiu took just three minutes to sum up his ruling after throwing out the defense argument that the ICAC investigation was inappropriate, Apple Daily reports. Yiu co ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
A court in southern China has jailed 24 people for fraudulently raising nearly 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) in one of the country's biggest financial scams. The group was convicted of illegally ra ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... istrates’ court, Apple Daily reported. Wong and Law were charged with inciting others to join and taking part in an unlawful assembly, while Wong and Chow were charged with taking part in an unlawful ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... ering the court of final appeal Saturday. "It is Ho," one lawmaker, who asked not to be identified, was quoted as saying. "I am not surprised, as in 2015 he was not seen in Macau for many months and i ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
Barristers said recent harsh comments about court rulings regarding people arrested after protesters clashed with police on the night of Feb. 8 in Mong Kok were deeply regrettable, Apple Daily reporte ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
... military court on Feb. 16 to hear the 10 charges against them, including murder and illegal possession of explosives. Both men say they are innocent. A record 7.9 million Chinese visited Thailand in ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
... appear in court for defaulting on his student loan. Ignoring a court order – about anything – is a serious mistake. However, the case drew attention to the scale of America’s student debt problem. Abo ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
... s, citing court documents. The video clip was played in evidence in court in connection with indecent assault and common assault charges brought by the woman against her employer. The defendant, surna ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
... rred to a court decision to allow Hong Kong Indigenous spokesperson Ray Wong Toi-yeung to go on bail after the activist was arrested by police on suspicion of riot charges. Kwok wrote in his article t ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
The Philippines is still seeking to recover about US$1 billion worth of assets accumulated by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos through 100 court cases at home and overseas, a government official sai ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
... istrate's court on Tuesday, Wong was ordered released on a bail of HK$100,000 (US$12,873) in cash and another HK$100,000 cash surety from his mother, Ming Pao Daily reported on Wednesday. The magistra ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-24
... s Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the Jats were not a backward community. As jobs have dried up in the private sector and farming incomes have declined, the community has demanded the reinstatement o ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... his first court appearance on 16 charges including six of murder that can bring life in prison, Reuters reported. The case raises questions on how the car service vets its drivers, the news agency sai ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... from the courthouse where Peter Liang was convicted earlier this month in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. They chanted, “No scapegoat! No scapegoat!” and carried signs bearing the same me ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
