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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Singapore’s attorney-general on Friday issued a stern warning to an independent filmmaker over online videos in which two Chinese bus drivers accused police in the city-state of assaulting them. Lee Seng Lynn had released videos of her interviews with He Jun Ling, 32, and Liu Xiang Ying, 33, in January. The two were among four Chinese nationals subsequently sentenced to jail terms of up to seven weeks for organising Singapore’s first industrial strike in nearly three decades. They were out on bail when the videos were posted on Lee’s blog. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — Bailed-out UK lender Royal Bank of Scotland says CEO Stephen Hester to leave by end of year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, on June 12th, 2013 New York regulators say life insurers are putting policyholders at risk and could cause another taxpayer bailout.
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The case of an Occupy Central volunteer arrested for her role in a demonstration two years ago was adjourned on Friday as alternative ways to resolve the controversial case were being sought by the defence. Melody Chan Yuk-fung, 26, who faces one charge of organising a public meeting against the Public Order Ordinance and one charge of taking part in an unauthorised assembly on July 1, 2011, appeared in Eastern Court on Friday morning to answer the charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> One of the men charged with the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in London last month made a rambling appearance at the Old Bailey central criminal court in London, declaring he was also “a soldier” and complaining about being repeatedly strip-searched. Michael Adebolajo, now listed on court documents as Mujaahid Abu Hamza, made a series of outbursts during the bail hearing on Wednesday in which his defence team successfully made a rare application for all court reporting restrictions to be lifted. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The investigation into the deaths of eight Lantau cows believed to have been killed by a hit-and-run driver was under way on Thursday as speculation mounted that more than one vehicle could have been involved. Government officials, forensic and traffic accident experts will be involved in the investigation which will try to establish how the incident happened and how so many cows could be killed at one time. The eight cows were found dead or dying by the roadside close to Tong Fuk Village early on Wednesday morning at a spot where they were known to sleep. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNIE LOWREY, on June 6th, 2013 The International Monetary Fund released an internal report that sharply criticizes its first bailout program for Greece, saying it seriously underestimated the severity of the country’s downturn.
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By , on June 4th, 2013
Plans to cut the annual criminal case legal aid budget in England and Wales by £220m would put its “world-renowned” justice system at risk, barristers say.
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By , on June 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Singer Chow Kai-seng, 52, has been arrested on suspicion of leaving his 13-year-old son home alone in his Happy Valley apartment. He was arrested in his first-floor flat in Shing Wo Road just after midnight when he returned from the mainland. Neighbours called police when Chow’s son was found wandering around outside and they feared for his safety. Police found the boy alone in the flat. When he got home, Chow was arrested on suspicion of ill treating his son. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Michael Adebolajo, 28, has been charged with the murder of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby as well as the attempted murder of two police officers and possession of a firearm, London’s Metropolitan Police said <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A New Zealand judge on Friday ordered police to return any digital material seized in an armed raid on internet mogul Kim Dotcom’s mansion last year not directly related to the prosecution against him. The decision by High Court chief judge Helen Winkelmann follows a ruling last year that the raid in January last year on Dotcom’s Auckland mansion was illegal because the search warrants used were too broad to be considered reasonable. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013
Michael Adebowale appears at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with murdering soldier Lee Rigby in south-east London.
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police arrested a sixth suspect on Thursday as part of an investigaion into the collapse of former executive councillor Barry Cheung Chun-yuen’s Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013
A man is to appear in court after being charged with the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, last week.
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By , on May 29th, 2013
A suspect in the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich remains in custody after being discharged from hospital.
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By , on May 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police investigating the grisly murder of a soldier in London by two Islamists made another arrest on Monday, as 1,000 far-right protesters demonstrated near Prime Minister David Cameron’s office. A 50-year-old man, held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, becomes the 10th person arrested over the hacking to death of 25-year-old Lee Rigby near a barracks in Woolwich on Wednesday. This includes the two prime suspects, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, who remain under armed guard in separate London hospitals after being shot by police at the murder scene. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 27th, 2013
More than 50 people are killed in a series of car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say, as a spate of violence continues.
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By , on May 27th, 2013
A tenth suspect is arrested in connection with the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich.
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By , on May 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In 2010, Michael Adebolajo was arrested with five others near Kenya’s border with Somalia, Kenya’s anti-terrorism police unit chief Boniface Mwaniki said. Police believed Adebolajo was going to work with Somali militant group al-Shabab. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The latest development came as Barry Cheung resigned from his positions in major businesses – as a board member of Russian aluminium producer United Co Rusal and as an independent non-executive director of AIA Group Limited. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Singapore warns filmmaker over bus striker videos
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Singapore’s attorney-general on Friday issued a stern warning to an independent filmmaker over online videos in which two Chinese bus drivers accused police in the city-state of assaulting them. Lee Seng Lynn had released videos of her interviews with He Jun Ling, 32, and Liu Xiang Ying, 33, in January. The two were among four Chinese nationals subsequently sentenced to jail terms of up to seven weeks for organising Singapore’s first industrial strike in nearly three decades. They were out on bail when the videos were posted on Lee’s blog. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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