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Crime news including the latest on murder cases, the hunt for serial killers, triads, court cases and trials, shootings, burglary, armed robbery and corruption.
Tourists walk through a shopping area in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia. Photo: EPA
Indonesia

How a major Bali bust is putting Indonesia’s tourist visa in the spotlight

The case also underscores Indonesia’s struggle against online gambling, which continues to flourish despite repeated crackdowns.

Canada

Canada school shooter was 18-year-old with mental health issues

United States

Man questioned about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance says he was released

Mainland China

Video | Nanjing Museum accused of selling donated art to collectors

Museum admits to ‘systemic problems’, pledges reform after ‘severe’ damage caused to image of cultural and museum industry.

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Hong Kong's national security law

Hong Kong fugitive’s father guilty of trying to cash out her insurance policy

Kwok Yin-sang tried to deal with financial assets of US-based Anna Kwok, despite knowing daughter is wanted activist with HK$1 million bounty.

The Philippines

Philippines vows aid for Filipino assaulted in Singapore shopping centre

‘It’s assault, physical assault. It’s a crime anywhere in the world, especially in Singapore,’ said a Philippine labour official.

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Australia

Australia demands answers from Laos over methanol poisoning ‘injustice’

While 10 were convicted of destroying evidence, not a single person has been charged in connection with the deaths of two Melbourne teens.

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Bianca Jones (left) and Holly Morton-Bowles were among six tourists who died after drinking tainted cocktails in Laos in 2024. Photo: Handout
United States

Person detained in Guthrie case following release of masked man video

A ‘subject’ was detained during a traffic stop in Arizona, marking a turning point in the search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.

Canada

Shootings at school and home in Canadian town leave 10 dead, many injured

Police say a suspect is among the dead and more than 25 people are injured in the remote British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge.

Singapore

Singaporean gets 11 years’ jail for posing as teen online and raping girl

The offender was 22 when he matched with the 13-year-old victim on a Telegram bot and asked her to be his girlfriend.

Singapore’s skyline. A man in the city state was jailed for grooming two underage girls online. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

Yaoning Sun gets 4 years in prison for acting as Beijing’s agent in California

The case was filed at a time of rising concern that the China was seeking to influence local polls and install Beijing-friendly politicians.

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Yaoning “Mike” Sun after pleaded guilty last year to acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the People’s Republic of China from 2022 to 2024 without notifying the US attorney general as required by law. Photo illustration: AFP
United States

FBI releases images of masked, armed person at Nancy Guthrie’s door

In the footage, the individual appears to tamper with a camera at the home of TV host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother.

Britain

‘Strong and united’: UK’s Starmer defiant as Epstein fallout dogs leadership

Senior ministers shore up Keir Starmer’s position as indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal threatens the British prime minister.

Hong Kong courts

Opinion | Collusion is a serious offence. Let Jimmy Lai’s case be an example

Critics of the former media boss’ sentencing should remember that he was not on trial for his beliefs, but rather for a clearly defined crime against national security.

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Crime in China

China’s Nanjing Museum scandal probe uncovers historic mismanagement, corruption

Museum admits to ‘systemic problems’, pledges reform after ‘severe’ damage caused to image of cultural and museum industry.

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Investigators looking into practices at Nanjing Museum in eastern Jiangsu province carried out 1,100 interviews and reviewed 65,000 archival documents. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Southeast Asia forced-labour scams

Easier, faster, cheaper: how AI is revolutionising Southeast Asia’s scam hubs

Technology is enabling gangs to target more victims efficiently and expand operations as governments struggle to tackle evolving cybercrime.

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Hong Kong courts

Retiree who left urine-spiked drinks in Hong Kong supermarkets spared prison

Court considers defendant’s psychological health and accepts Social Welfare Department’s recommendation to place him on probation for one year.

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Fame and celebrity

Mystery deepens in Guthrie case as purported ransom deadline passes

The FBI says it still has no suspects as ‘Today’ show co-host again appeals for the public’s help to find her mother.

‘Today’ host Savannah Guthrie with her siblings Annie and Camron, in a video message on Friday. Photo: Savannah Guthrie via Instagram
Scams and swindles

Opinion | Cambodia is in a frontline battle against transnational scam syndicates

Targeted due to geography, Cambodia is on the front foot now, dismantling scam compounds, rescuing victims and prosecuting criminals.

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Mexico

Mexico says 5 of 10 workers kidnapped from Canadian miner found dead

The workers were kidnapped on January 23 from a silver mining project in Mexico’s violence-plagued Sinaloa state.

Ghislaine Maxwell

Maxwell seeks clemency from Trump before publicly giving ‘unfiltered truth’

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer links agreeing to any public testimony to a deal from the White House.

Ghislaine Maxwell in a video deposition on Monday. Photo: GOP Oversight via Reuters
Britain

Defiant Starmer rejects calls to quit as crisis deepens over Epstein fallout

Despite losing two top aides in 48 hours and a demand to resign from the Scottish Labour leader, Britain’s prime minister vows to fight on for his ‘mandate’.

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gets in his car to leave 10 Downing Street in London on Monday. Photo: AP
Jeffrey Epstein

UK king to ‘support’ police assessing Andrew’s Epstein communications

King Charles has ‘profound concern’ as British police assess if his brother passed sensitive reports to Jeffrey Epstein.

Crime in Hong Kong

Wife alleged to have attacked man with pan in Hong Kong murder case

Wife, 51, suspected to have hit victim with a stainless steel pan, investigators say.

Myanmar

Video | Scam centre members apologise in broadcast confession

Core members of the Myanmar-based telecoms fraud syndicate Ming Zhenzhen and Bai Yingcang apologised for causing harm to Chinese citizens.

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Japan

Is Japan’s labour shortage to blame for surge in police crime, ‘lax discipline’?

National Police Agency figures showed that 337 personnel had to be disciplined last year, the highest in a decade.

Police officers stand guard near the Horyuji Temple in Ikaruga, Nara prefecture on January 14. Photo: Kyodo/AP
Jeffrey Epstein

Norwegian ambassador resigns over Epstein links as scandal widens

Ambassador Mona Juul’s contact with Jeffrey Epstein revealed a ‘serious lapse in judgment’, foreign minister says.

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Banking & finance

Farmers’ son banker Xu Yiding under probe by China’s anti-corruption watchdog

The Agricultural Development Bank of China vice-president was once held up as a model figure for finance-driven poverty reduction.

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