Criminal

In February of last year, Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) mail systems, taking a trove of data that may have contained crucial information about the economies and politics of member nations. According to a vulnerability alert acquired by WIRED, hackers took over 30GB of data, including over 10,000 emails exchanged by member countries, by …

The US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted along party lines on March 1 to grant President Joe Biden the authority to prohibit the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok. This would be the most stringent US restriction on any social media app. By a vote of 24 to 16, lawmakers approved the legislation to allow the government new authority to ban …

On February 22, 2023, airport staff who allegedly stole cash from a Thai tourist while on duty at a security screening checkpoint at the Philippines’ primary airport, Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), will face criminal and administrative prosecution. “In addition to the administrative action that we filed, we wanted to pursue the criminal case since, for us, this is not …

The murder allegation against a student who was accused of killing a 13-year-old boy at River Valley High School in July 2021 has been changed to culpable homicide. The teenager, who turned eighteen in January, was charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The accusation states that he caused the death of a 13-year-old boy in a River Valley …

An official stated on Friday that Indonesia increased security in the town of Wamena in the easternmost part of Papua after 10 people were killed in a disturbance sparked by rumors that a child had been kidnapped. Police stated that more than 200 security officers, including police and the military, were deployed to calm the situation after more than 20 …

Concerns regarding TikTok’s acquisition, use, and disclosure of personal information have prompted Canada to begin a joint federal and provincial inquiry, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced on Thursday, February 23. The federal privacy regulator, together with provincial counterparts in Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta, will investigate whether TikTok’s methods comply with Canadian privacy rules, according to a statement from …

Wednesday, February 22, JPMorgan Chase & Co. stated that it should not be held accountable for a former executive’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein in a lawsuit alleging the largest US bank of aiding its former client’s sex trafficking organization. JPMorgan stated in a court statement in Manhattan that communications between former executive Jes Staley and Epstein did not support the …

Human rights groups have urged Malaysia to probe conditions at migrant detention centers following the government’s report that 150 foreigners, including seven children, perished at the facilities in 2014. Foreigners lacking proper licenses to remain in Malaysia, especially asylum seekers, are often detained. It is home to millions of unauthorized migrants and more than one hundred thousand Rohingya refugees. According …

In an effort to better confront North Korea’s threats, South Korea and the United States will conduct tabletop drills in Washington, D.C., the week after next, according to Seoul’s defense ministry on February 17. Nuclear-armed North Korea launched a record number of missiles in 2018, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of striking anyplace in the United States, and resumed …

Thursday, February 16 was the first time in six years that South Korea has referred to North Korea as its “enemy” and reported an increase in Pyongyang’s stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium. The yearly white paper provides a peek of the secretive North’s expanding nuclear and conventional military arsenals. The North Korean dictatorship and military were referred to as “our adversary” …