With virtual bodyguards, panic buttons and maps to pinpoint harassment blackspots, women in urban India are using their smartphones for protection after a notorious gang-rape in New Delhi.
- Mon
- Mar 4, 2013
- Updated: 6:34pm
Trending topics
1 Mar 2013
Two US sailors who raped a Japanese woman in Okinawa last October were jailed on Friday for a crime that reignited long-smouldering anger against the American military in Japan.
27 Feb 2013
Two US sailors yesterday admitted raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa, in a case that has generated huge anti-American anger in Japan.
25 Feb 2013
The mother of a British teenager who was raped and left to die on a Goa beach five years ago has blasted India's "rubbish" legal system over the stalled trial into her daughter's death.
24 Feb 2013
The majority of sex-crime victims never tell the police. Only about half of such reports result in a case going to court. And, in all but one of the past 12 years, the majority of rape cases that...
An unemployed man was sentenced to eight years in jail on Wednesday for raping a mentally handicapped woman in Ap Lei Chau.
Pan-democrat lawmakers move a Legislative Council motion demanding an investigation into claims by a former ally of Leung Chun-ying about the chief executive's conduct.
Tomorrow, on Valentine's Day, countless couples will celebrate romance by candlelight. On the same day, one billion women and men worldwide will stand up to shine a light on the darker side of...
Two teenagers yesterday appeared in Tuen Mun Court on a joint charge of arson for allegedly setting fire to umbrellas and other items at a Tin Shui Wai estate on Friday.
A new virus from the same family as Sars that sparked a global alert last September has been found in another patient in Britain.
China has called on the Indian government to ensure the safety of its nationals after a Chinese woman was allegedly raped in New Delhi.
The Chinese embassy in New Delhi said it reacted with...
In Case You Missed It
Login
SCMP.com Account
or
Log in using a partner site
Log in using your Facebook account. What's this?
Don't have an SCMP.com account? Subscribe Now!