China is readying a revision of its law on money laundering, signalling a hardening of penalties for financial crimes and a desire to keep practices in line with international standards.

Once the most powerful figure in the crypto industry, Zhao stepped down as Binance’s chief last November, when he and the exchange admitted to evading anti-money-laundering requirements.

Police in northern China have detained five people for allegedly colluding to steal about 10,000 tonnes of corn amid Beijing’s increasing focus on food security.

Xiaolei Wu, who was studying jazz at the Berklee College of Music, will be deported after serving his sentence in a US prison, a federal judge orders.

From Drake and Kendrick Lamar to Quavo and Chris Brown, rappers’ diss tracks are exposing the links between them like never before – so who is Karrueche Tran, who’s been referenced recently?

Acting secretary for transport and logistics Liu Chun-san says most vandalised amenities, which had HK$65 million repair bill, now fixed.

Theft was part of wider plan to detonate two bombs in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019, during lawful protest, prosecution says.

A grey Nissan Qashqai rented by Mitchell Ong was reportedly caught on CCTV in the same area where Audrey Fang’s body was found.

Criminals create deceptive web pages advertising lucrative offers for doorstep collection of used clothing, but to make booking, residents must install malicious app that gathers personal data, police say.

Gang assaults victim after he trips and falls when trying to flee, while his four friends escape unharmed.

Oo Saw Kee, 39, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for intentionally inflicting serious injury to the 33-year-old victim. The judge called her actions ‘cruel and inhumane’.

Pan apologised to a courtroom packed with family and friends of victim Kevin Jiang, saying he ‘fully accepted’ his punishment.

David Pecker testified that the National Enquirer paid for stories of Trump’s sexual misbehaviour but never published them, a practice known as ‘catch and kill’.

The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harbouring after other cats scratched his car.

Spanish police have sent a sample of the soil embedded in the soles of the Nike shoes for a lab analysis to determine if it matches the soil found on the body of Audrey Fang.

M Krishnan, 40, had a ‘propensity for abusing his domestic partners’, the court heard. He punched and kicked the victim to death after learning about her relationships with other men.

The 40-year-old proved he has auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a rare condition whereby the body produces alcohol, but no symptoms of intoxication.

New York prosecutors portrayed US$130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as a criminal effort to deceive voters when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behaviour.

Suspected cocaine, with an estimated street value of HK$15 million, found by hikers at Nam She Wan near shoreline on Sunday.

Three German nationals were arrested and two men in Britain were charged.

Three Hongkongers, eight Thai women and 40 mainland Chinese residents arrested after series of police raids over two weeks.

Six male defendants plead not guilty to charge of bombing, while one female suspect denies role in providing or collecting property to commit terrorist acts.

Ecuador’s fledgling president got a resounding victory in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiralling wave of violence.

Ecuador’s prisons agency did not give more details on the death of the prison director. Ecuadorans were voting in a referendum on proposed measures to fight surge in gang-related crime.

Scammers posed as staff members and told renovation and maintenance firms they represented schools that needed work done.

The killings have stunned many Australians, who are largely unaccustomed to such violent crime: ‘I feel like this has burst Australia’s bubble a bit’.

At least 39 dogs and two cats found after police and SPCA raid on flat in Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei

Islamist bombers hit three churches and three hotels in 2019, killing more than 279 people, but grieving families say they are still awaiting justice.