Criminal

A combined operation led by the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) on November 30 rescued a girl in Barangay Pasil, Cebu City, who had reportedly been subjected to months of online sexual exploitation and torture at the hands of her own mother. Officials from the NBI Cebu District Office, the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking, and the Department …

Three female teachers formerly employed at a nursery school in Susono, a city in central Japan near Mount Fuji, were detained on suspicion of routinely abusing toddlers in their care on Sunday. The teachers were detained hours after police searched the private school in response to the city’s Wednesday statement that they were engaged in 15 incidences of abuse between …

State Track of Thailand (SRT) officials said on Sunday that train travel on the railway connecting Thailand and Malaysia has been banned as officials investigate a bomb explosion that derailed a freight train early yesterday afternoon. The explosion derailed 11 of the cargo train’s 20 cars and seriously damaged rail tracks in the Sadao area of Songkhla province, according to …

This month, the Indonesian parliament is poised to enact a new criminal law that will punish sexual activity outside of marriage with up to a year in prison. Bambang Wuryanto, a lawmaker participating in the drafting process, stated that the code may be approved as early as the following week. If passed, the law will apply to both Indonesian nationals …

Even though Balenciaga has quit Twitter, the site’s users continue to analyze the luxury brand’s every move. On November 21, June Nicole Lapine, better known as @shoe0nhead, took to Elon Musk’s Twitter to indicate that the luxury fashion label is plotting to exploit youngsters. The YouTuber’s rationale made the claim even more absurd. She begins by showing a few images …

Monday, Hong Kong’s highest court ruled that a British attorney can defend pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai in a national security trial, rejecting a government appeal to prohibit foreign counsel from such cases. Hong Kong’s Department of Justice made repeated attempts to prevent British attorney Timothy Owen from representing Lai, arguably Hong Kong’s most outspoken opponent of Chinese Communist Party leaders …

A Japanese filmmaker who was imprisoned for over four months in Myanmar described parts of his captivity there as “hell” and urged Tokyo to take a harder stance against human rights violations in the military-controlled country. Since the military ousted an elected government in Southeast Asia a year ago, the nation has been in disarray. In an effort to stifle …

The government of South Korea planned to meet with the country’s striking truckers’ union on Monday (Nov 28) for the first time since a statewide strike began five days ago, as supply chain problems deteriorated and construction sites experienced concrete shortages. The government has upgraded its warning of cargo transport disruptions caused by the strike to “severe,” the highest rating …

The Biden administration has prohibited the certification of Huawei Technologies and ZTE’s new telecommunications equipment because they represent “an intolerable danger” to US national security. The US Federal Communications Commission said on November 25 that it has adopted the final regulations, which prohibit the sale or import of surveillance equipment manufactured by Chinese companies Dahua Technology Co, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital …

Microsoft is set to face an EU antitrust probe as authorities deepen their scrutiny of the company’s tactics in a case sparked by Salesforce.com’s workplace messaging software Slack, according to individuals familiar with the situation. The previous year, Slack filed a complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Microsoft improperly merged its workplace chat and video service Teams into its …