Taiwanese actress says she misses Thailand after four ex-cops jailed for extorting her
She also said that she believed there are more good than bad cops in the kingdom.
Crime
Tracking Singapore’s online black market for pets
Every day, underground marketplaces on Telegram hawk live animals to people in Singapore who want them as pets.
Man lured to work in Myanmar scam compounds was beaten, electrocuted
The UN said in a report published in August that hundreds of thousands of people are being forced by criminal gangs to work in scam and illegal gambling centres in South-east Asia.
Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission names deputy law minister suspect in bribery case
Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, who was inaugurated as the deputy law minister in December 2020, is the latest minister in President Joko Widodo’s cabinet to be implicated in a…
Bangladesh’s rights record go under UN scrutiny
The government's national report named victims of enforced disappearances and claims that they are actually not victims of enforced disappearances, but rather voluntary…
Indonesia’s ex-communications minister gets 15 years in prison for corruption
The panel of three judges concluded that former minister Johnny G. Plate had received at least Rp 11.5 billion in kickbacks from the ministry’s Telecommunications and…
Serving others’ jail term for just Tk 3,000
The Chattogram Prison authorities identified a total of 13 such incidents in the prison this year.
Move Forward expels MP for revealing identity of abuse victims
The party removed Chaiyamparwaan Manpianjit, after determining that he had violated the terms that had saved him from being expelled last week.
Former National Search and Rescue Agency chief admits taking bribes, says it’s common practice in agency
Air Marshal Henri Alfiandi also admitted to receiving the bribes through the agency’s former administrative coordinator, Lt. Col. Afri Budi Cahyanto.
‘Justice will prevail’: G-Dragon insists no drug use, tests negative
The singer, also a member of now-defunct group Big Bang, was booked without detention around two weeks ago for breaching the Narcotics Control Act.