Arrest

Stun gun used on man with knife outside Buckingham Palace

5 Feb 2013

Scotland Yard said the man, thought to be in his 50s, was spotted carrying two knives outside the central gate of the London landmark late on Sunday morning. He was ranting and pressing one of the...

League of Social Democrats' Avery Ng arrested for July 1 antics

23 Dec 2012

The vice-chairman of the League of Social Democrats was arrested yesterday for throwing his T-shirt off a footbridge to catch the attention of President Hu Jintao during his visit on July 1.

British police arrest ex-Credit Suisse CDO chief Kareem Serageldin

28 Sep 2012

Kareem Serageldin, the former global head of Credit Suisse Group's collateralised debt obligations business charged in a bonus-boosting fraud tied to a US$5.35 billion trading book, was arrested...

Citizens are still a long way from enjoying true justice

5 Jan 2012

With only meagre improvements in the second draft of amendments to the Criminal Procedure Law, it appears the mainland's criminal justice system is still a long way from placing citizens' rights...

Criminal-law changes disappoint

1 Jan 2012

A second set of draft amendments to the Criminal Procedure Law, tabled last week in the nation's legislature, answer some concerns raised by the public but fall short of expectations overall,...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Defence says more arrests possible for acid attack

More people may be arrested and prosecuted in the case of six men who pleaded guilty to being involved in an acid attack against a prosecutor, a court heard yesterday.

Paedophile admits abusing 6 boys

Six boys aged as young as 11 were given cash by a 37-year-old man after engaging in sexual acts with him, a court was told yesterday.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Starring: Gregory Peck
Director: Robert Mulligan
Year of original release: 1962

Set-up

Call for reassessment of Sun Yat-sen from 'pioneer' to 'father of the nation'

Beijing is implementing many of the ideas of Dr Sun Yat-sen and should hang his image, instead of that of Mao Zedong, over Tiananmen Square in Beijing as the founder of a republican China.

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Activists charged and ousted as noose on dissent tightens

The crackdown on mainland activists appears to be intensifying with the formal arrest of an outspoken writer, and the ousting of a prominent opinion writer and an editor at two publications.

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The worst system corrupts its best officials

For centuries, West Lake, in the centre of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, has been universally recognised as one of China's most iconic spots, famous not only for its picturesque landscape but also for its...