The website “Welcome to Video”, originating in South Korea featured over 200,000 videos child sex abuse. Based on Bitcoin transactions, the marketplace received over 7,300 payments from viewers and earning hundred of thousands of dollars. The website creator, Jong Woo Son, is currently serving eighteen months in South Korea for child pornography chargers. He has also been charged on nine… Read more »
The primary cause of the haze covering Singapore has been caused by illegal agricultural fires, set off by farmers taking advantage of Indonesia’s dry season. The burning tends to peak from July to October, due to farmers taking advantage of the weather conditions. Farmers will use what is called the slash-and-burn method, which entails the clearing of forests with any… Read more »
In Australia, the Prime Minister’s office sent confidential topics to news media all around the country. It was meant to be sent to their own Liberal-National Party to prepare them for the resumption of Parliament. In the document, it talked about Syrian refugees flying into Australia, taxation, asylum seekers, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the agreement with Paris. One of… Read more »
Sydney: The Australian Prime Minister’s office sent confidential talking points to the media by mistake, instead of sending the document to its own coalition’s members of parliament (MPs). The idea behind the document was to prepare the Australian government’s Liberal-National Party coalition members for Monday’s resumption of Parliament. Instead of sending confidential talking points to their own members of parliament… Read more »
For Kurds, a zilgit is traditionally a call to celebration. On Saturday, for hundreds of protesters, it was a call to action. Australia’s Kurdish community rallied in Melbourne to protest Turkish aggression in northern Syria, known as Rojava, days after the US pulled back troops from the region. Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society in Australia spokesman, Heval Herki, said protesters… Read more »
A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan’s worst in six decades made landfall southwest of Tokyo, with streets, beaches and train stations deserted.ADVERTISING Store shelves were bare after people stocked up on water and food ahead of Typhoon Hagibis. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of dangerously… Read more »
China threatened unspecified “strong countermeasures” if the United States Congress enacts legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters, in a sign of the deepening strain between the world’s two largest economies as they attempt to seal a trade deal. China’s Foreign Ministry issued the warning yesterday after the House of Representatives passed a package of measures backing a pro-democracy movement that has… Read more »
More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world’s “largest dark web child porn marketplaces”, investigators said. The site had more than 200,000 videos which had collectively been downloaded more than a million times. It was shut down last year after a UK investigation into a child sex offender uncovered its existence. But on… Read more »
How Vietnamese drug kingpins run Britain’s lucrative marijuana trade worth US$3.2 billion a yearSIGN IN/UPSoutheast Asia How Vietnamese drug kingpins run Britain’s lucrative marijuana trade worth US$3.2 billion a year Thousands of migrants are tricked and trafficked to work for Vietnamese bosses who have become major players in the UK weed game Police have busted cannabis farms in dog kennels,… Read more »
The stepfather of a 5-year-old girl admitted to assault and neglect leading to the child’s death last year during his first court hearing Tuesday at the Tokyo District Court. Yudai Funato, 34, said, “That is correct,” when Presiding Judge Minoru Morishita asked about his indictment over the fatal abuse of his stepdaughter Yua, who was assaulted and deprived of food… Read more »