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People gather around four American educators from an Iowa university, who were reportedly stabbed in a public park in Jilin, China, in this still image taken from video released on Monday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Jun 11, 2024

Four U.S. educators stabbed in park in northeast China

The group had been visiting a temple in Beishan Park when they were attacked by a man with a knife. There were no reports of a motive.

Wang YunHe's residence in Singapore, overlooking the country's premier shopping belt.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Jun 1, 2024

Singapore wealth flows face new scrutiny in superhacker case

By Bernadette Toh, Low De Wei and Ambereen Choudhury

The case is a reminder of the difficult balancing act faced by Singapore and other financial hubs as they push to attract the world’s ultra rich.

Simon Cheng, a pro-democracy activist from Hong Kong now living in Britain, at the offices of an organization he founded to aid new Hong Kong arrivals, in London on May 20. Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers have resettled in the United Kingdom since 2021, including prominent pro-democracy activists — and China has not forgotten them.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

May 27, 2024

Spying arrests send chill through Britain’s thriving Hong Kong community

By Megan Specia

The arrests have cast a spotlight on activists’ concerns about China's surveillance of its critics abroad.

Official data indicates at least 17,000 South Korean residents have been hit by real estate fraud in recent years, and around 70% of victims are in their 20s and 30s.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

May 27, 2024

Debt, suicide, fraud: South Koreans hit by real estate scams

By Claire Lee

Authorities draw flak for not doing enough to help victims or punish fraudsters who capitalize on the country's unique jeonse system in which tenants pay huge deposits.

Lee Dong-hyun and her son, 19-month-old Choi Hee-woo, pose at a playground on May 17, ahead of the final public hearing at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday of a climate lawsuit against the South Korean government, for which Hee-woo is the youngest plaintiff.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

May 22, 2024

Embryo activist: Baby's lawsuit takes on South Korea climate inaction

By Hieun SHIN

South Korea is the G20's second-highest carbon emitter per capita.

Matthew Trickett leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on May 13.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

May 22, 2024

Former U.K. marine in Hong Kong spy case found dead: police

Matthew Trickett was one of three men accused in the recent Hong Kong spy case.

Patty Ortega, widow of slain Philippine environmental activist and radio host Gerry Ortega, points to old photographs of her late husband at their home in Puerto Princesa in Palawan.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

May 15, 2024

A 13-year fight for justice in Philippine activist's murder

By Allison JACKSON

Environmental activist and radio host Gerry Ortega was shot in a clothes shop along a busy road in the Palawan capital of Puerto Princesa in 2011.

A person walks among the giant columns supporting the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel in Saitama Prefecture.

Tokyo underground: The city beneath our feet

Tour guide and history buff Rory Dent left his job at a U.K.-based tour operator to move to Japan and start his own business.

Guiding Japan through the challenges of overtourism

By Alex K.T. Martin

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