Category: Law

Coast guard and fishery officials from the Philippines, United States, Vietnam, and Indonesia practiced vessel boarding and arrest techniques at a joint maritime law enforcement training, the U.S. Embassy in Manila said Monday. The two-week course on the Philippines' southern island ...

Officials from China, Thailand, and Myanmar agreed jointly to target a notorious telecom scam hub in the Burmese city of Myawaddy, reports China’s state media. Officials from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos also attended the meeting in Kunming, Yunnan province. The initiative aims to use the Lancang-Mekong cross-border law ...

Three Chinese nationals have been sentenced to seven years in prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo's east after being arrested in possession of gold bars and large sums of cash. The court sentenced the men late Tuesday for the illegal ...

Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they had detained a man wanted in China over allegations he helped defraud tens of thousands of people out of about $14 billion. The man, who had been wanted by China since 2020, was detained on ...

By Juan José Rodríguez Panamanian border police arrested 15 people Wednesday connected to a criminal organization that helped smuggle Chinese migrants across the Darien jungle via a "VIP route" with fewer challenges to traverse. The ...

By Enrique Ortiz When Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the Galapagos Islands in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached fish, many of them threatened species like hammerhead and thresher sharks.

Ecuador said Tuesday it would soon begin temporarily requiring visas for Chinese citizens after it noted a "worrying increase" in the number who overstay their authorized time in the country. Starting July 1, Quito will suspend the bilateral agreement that had ...

Nearly two dozen Angolan police officers raided a suspected Chinese bitcoin mining operation outside of Luanda on Tuesday, violently forcing their way past security guards to enter the premises. Once inside, the police were confronted by the Chinese factory managers who ...

China said Tuesday it hoped the International Criminal Court would uphold an "objective" position after a prosecutor requested arrest warrants for leaders from Israel, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Islamist movement Hamas. The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Karim Khan ...

Beijing's military on Friday said it had tailed and issued a warning to a U.S. Navy ship in the disputed South China Sea, just days after the same vessel sparked China's ire by sailing through the Taiwan Strait. Beijing claims almost ...

Several gold mines in northern Niger managed by a Chinese company were ordered to temporarily close after dozens of animals died from drinking wastewater, local authorities told AFP on Sunday. Herders around the town of Tabelot had pointed to Sahara SARL's ...

Nigerian consumer protection authorities shuttered a Chinese supermarket in the capital Abuja in response to a video that went viral over the weekend. The video seemingly shows the store refusing entry to Black customers. The Royal Choice supermarket is located inside the ...