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Rioters in standoff with police outside of Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, China, November 17, 2019. (Photo: Xinhua)A Hong Kong court has sentenced seven defendants to terms of imprisonment ranging from 38 to 40 months and two to a correctional institution for young offenders for riot[More]
A protester stands in the water during a demonstration calling for the government to resign over the oil spill after a cargo ship ran aground in July, in Mahebourg, on September 12, 2020. (Photo: AFP)The captain and first mate of a freighter that crashed into a coral reef off Mauritius, causing the [More]
HONG KONG, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, an instigator of Hong Kong riots, was sentenced to 13-month imprisonment on Monday for taking part in an unauthorized assembly in Hong Kongs Victoria Park last year.Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai (2nd left) arrives at the Court of Final Appeal in[More]
Yuan Renguo, former chairman of Chinas leading liquor maker Kweichow Moutai Group, was sentenced on Thursday to life imprisonment for taking bribes.Yuan Renguo, ex-chairman of Chinese liquor tycoon Kweichow Moutai. (Photo: IC)[More]
Maria Kolesnikova, the last remaining protest leader still in Belarus, gestures inside the defendants cage at the opening of her trial on charges of undermining national security, conspiring to seize power and creating an extremist group, in Minsk on August 4, 2021. (File photo: AFP)A court in Belar[More]
A Japanese court yesterday sentenced a 90-year-old former senior government official to five years in prison for a 2019 car accident which killed a 3-year-old girl and her mother.[More]
Xu Guoli stands trial on murder charge at the Hangzhou Intermediate Peoples Court in Zhejiang province, on May 14, 2021. (Photo: CCTV News)A man who admitted killing his 53-year-old wife, Lai Huili, was sentenced to death by the Hangzhou Intermediate Peoples Court in Zhejiang province on Monday.Xu G[More]
In Sichuan province, three men convicted of stealing 6 million yuan in virtual currency were sentenced recently to imprisonment of seven and a half to 10 years.A court in Leshan classified the 29 Bitcoins and 1,258 Ethereum coins as personal property in its legal analysis.The head of the group, sur[More]
