Child Abduction

Police dismiss report that 200,000 children abducted in China yearly

3 Jun 2013

A senior police official dismissed a state media report that some 200,000 children disappear in China every year.

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Ex-abattoir worker jailed for life over murder of 5-year-old

31 May 2013

A former slaughterhouse worker was jailed for life yesterday for abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones, whose disappearance in Wales last year sparked the biggest search in British...

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Japan to join child abduction treaty

23 May 2013

Japan's parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers...

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Kidnapped child returns home after 23 years with aid of Google Maps

18 May 2013

A Sichuan man, abducted and taken to Fujian province at the age of five, has finally found his way home after spending years trying to work out where he came from.

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Hainan province teacher, city official arrested over sex assault of six girls

14 May 2013

A schoolmaster and a government official in Hainan province have been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of six primary school girls, local authorities said yesterday.

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Abduction scare at Ho Man Tin primary school

13 Mar 2013

A middle-aged woman is being sought by police after a four-year-old girl was allegedly abducted near her school in Ho Man Tin on Monday.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Briefs, January 20, 2013

Japan's foreign minister said his country's new government would join a treaty on child abductions, addressing one of the few rifts in relations with its main ally, the United States. Japan has...

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City Digest, January 9, 2013

TV actor Oscar Leung Lit-wai has asked a court to strike out a lawsuit filed by restaurant boss Kenny Wee Ho in which Wee alleged that Leung had made defamatory remarks.

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China arrests 90 over child abductions

Police have arrested 90 gang suspects across China and freed 28 children who were allegedly kidnapped from the far west and taken to various cities to steal, a report said on Thursday.

9:44PM

IRAQ

Basra in fear after rape and murder of girls, 4 and 5

The brutal crimes struck a nerve, even in a country that has seen a horrific amount of bloodshed in the past decade: young Iraqi girls kidnapped, repeatedly raped and then bludgeoned to death in...

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Alarming reaction to child reports

Hong Kong is such a safe city that even the merest suggestion that matters are not as usual drives parents into a frenzy.

10:17AM

Child beggars targeted in abduction crackdown

Mainland police have embarked on a nationwide background search of suspected child abductees as part of a crackdown on child trafficking.

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