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 »
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 »
A few days ago China celebrated it’s 70th anniversary of communist rule. In multiple cities across the Republic of China, protesters went out on the streets and violence escalated quickly. Two major cities had disruption, Beijing and Hong Kong, with Hong Kong having the most violent riots. The anger began due to proposed law that would accept the removal of… Read more »
Humanitarian group warns as many as 11 million Filipino children under five face a risk of death or disability.2 Oct 2019 The International Red Cross and its Philippine affiliate have warned of an “alarming comeback” of the polio virus in the country, prompting the government to declare a national outbreak. The humanitarian group said in a statement on Wednesday that it is… Read more »
Hong Kong police shot a pro-democracy protester at close range on Tuesday as the city was lashed by its worst unrest of the year, hours after China celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule with a massive military parade.ADVERTISING While President Xi Jinping took salutes from some 15,000 troops in the capital, pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong threw eggs at his portrait,… Read more »
Hong Kong police used pepper spray on Saturday to disperse anti-government protesters who blocked a key road next to a pro-democracy rally. Earlier, thousands had gathered peacefully to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2014 “Umbrella” movement. Hong Kong police used pepper spray on Saturday to try to disperse anti-government protesters who threw rocks and blocked a key road next… Read more »
The 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule in China was “one of Hong Kong’s most violent and chaotic days”, the city’s police chief has said. An 18-year-old protester was shot in the chest with a live bullet – one of six live rounds fired by police. Protesters – some armed with poles, petrol bombs and other projectiles – fought pitched… Read more »