... round the court room while the judge explained the verdict. After the hearing, he shuffled out of court, hunched over a walking frame with his head bowed. He remains free until prosecutors decide whe ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... istrates’ Court found So Suet-ling, 65, guilty of one count of common assault and sentenced her to a 14-day prison term suspended for 12 months, while her husband Chan Nam-sing, 72, was fined HK$8,000 ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-15
... influence court rulings, Bloomberg News reported. The crackdown comes days after China’s parliament passed a sweeping national security law seeking to “defend the people’s democratic dictatorship” and ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
Grammy-winning rapper 50 Cent has filed for bankruptcy after losing a lawsuit over a 2008 sex tape. Curtis James Jackson III listed assets and debt of less than US$50 million each in a court filing in ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... S Supreme Court ruling in June allowing same-sex marriage nationwide and a call in May from the Boy Scouts president, former US defense secretary Robert Gates, who said the ban on gay leadership neede ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
Three men from China's Uygur Muslim minority have been jailed six years by a court in Indonesia for conspiring with militant Islamists. A panel of judges in the north Jakarta district court found Ahme ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... the High Court Monday, Justice Au Hing-cheung accepted Tsang's application for a judicial review, saying he had reasonably arguable points, RTHK reported. The judicial review will discuss whether the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
Chinese authorities have launched an anti-graft investigation into a judge of the nation's highest court, according to state media. Xi Xiaoming, vice president of the Supreme People's Court, is being ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
... lthough a court ruled last year that it is illegal for Uber to provide some of its services in the country, the company is now appealing the decision. Last Friday, Uber suspended its low-cost UberPop ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-11
A man charged with assaulting police during the Occupy protests walked free from court Thursday after a video clip led the magistrate to dismiss the testimony of a police officer, Apple Daily reported ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
Two men accused of throwing eggs at student leader Joshua Wong outside a Kowloon court in November last year have pleaded not guilty. Lee Wong, 26, and Cheung Ka-shing, 32, pleaded not guilty to charg ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
A woman who participated in a Mongkok "shopping" protest in January, in an extension of last year's Occupy campaign, has seen the charges against her dropped in a Hong Kong court on Wednesday. The wom ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
An Indian court has lifted a ban on Uber Technologies Inc. in New Delhi. The judge said Uber should be allowed to operate while it is seeking a license from the Delhi Transport Department, the Wall St ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
... s Supreme Court ruled that the law against gay sex, which dates back to the British colonial era, wasn't unconstitutional and could only be amended or repealed by legislation. The decision overturned ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
The Philippines argued at a closed hearing Tuesday that an international court should intervene in its dispute with China over rights to exploit natural resources and fish in the South China Sea, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... n federal court. The department’s Office for Civil Rights dismissed on June 3 the complaint filed in May by more than 60 Asian-American groups. “We are very disappointed, but we won’t stop the fight,” ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
Amazon.com Inc. must face a trademark lawsuit brought by a watchmaker, a US federal appeals court ruled. The suit says the online retailer's search results can cause confusion for potential customers, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... football court in Taichung. Last year, his dream finally came true, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. He first rented a site which used to be a bowling club. Then he sent applications to the re ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
A Singapore court has handed teenage blogger Amos Yee a four-week jail sentence after finding him guilty of insulting religious feelings and for uploading an obscene image. However, the sentence was b ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... S Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, which upheld key subsidies that underpin the reform and thus gave more certainty to healthcare insurers. The bigger the insurer, the more power it has negotiating ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
