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Dentist accused of mutilating patients gets 8 years in prison Philippe Sotto and Catherine Gaschka, The Associated Press First posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 08:52 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 01:12 PM EDT Dutch dentist, Jacobus Van Nierop, is pictured in his dental office in...

Boy falls to death after being locked indoors by mother CRI, April 22, 2016 A 6-year-old boy fell to his death from the 21st floor of a residential building in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Thursday morning, after his mother locked him inside and left for the night. Residents...

Chinese mother threw six-year-old daughter into lake because she didn’t want to go to school Child had to be rescued by passing pensioner in Jiangsu province PUBLISHED : Thursday, 21 April, 2016, 11:51am UPDATED : Thursday, 21 April, 2016, 12:01pm Celine Ge [email protected] A mother from...

Malaysia deports Taiwanese to Taiwan 'despite China request' AFP on April 16, 2016, 12:44 am Taipei (AFP) - Malaysia Friday deported 20 Taiwanese implicated in fraud back to Taiwan despite Beijing seeking to have them sent to mainland China, Taipei said, in a new bout of diplomatic sparring...

80% of groundwater in China’s major river basins is ‘unsafe’ for humans: study PUBLISHED : Monday, 11 April, 2016, 10:12pm UPDATED : Monday, 11 April, 2016, 10:57pm Li Jing About 80 per cent of groundwater in the mainland’s major river basins is unsafe for human contact, a survey by the...

Myanmar court frees student activists after Suu Kyi pledge AFP on April 9, 2016, 2:17 am Tharrawaddy (Myanmar) (AFP) - A Myanmar court on Friday freed dozens of jailed students, in the first wave of detainee releases after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to make freeing activists and political...

Outrage as Chinese woman tells of police, hotel staff’s inaction after dramatic near-abduction in Beijing hotel According to Wanwan, hotel employee watched on as she was attacked outside her room and police said matter wasn’t under their purview PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 06 April, 2016, 1:04pm...

Singapore to hang Malaysian man for killing Chinese worker in robbery gone wrong PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 05 April, 2016, 8:24pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 05 April, 2016, 8:24pm Agence France-Presse Singapore’s highest court on Tuesday quashed a final appeal by a Malaysian murder convict, setting the...

Death by overwork on rise in Japan AAP on April 3, 2016, 4:59 pm Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or "karoshi", a phenomenon previously associated with the long-suffering "salary man" that is increasingly afflicting young and female...

Shanghai-born Chetham violin teacher cleared of raping pupil Three years after being arrested on suspicion of sex crimes committed against a 13-year-old pupil at Chetham’s School of Music, Li Wen Zhou was found not guilty after the prosecution formally offered no evidence against him PUBLISHED...

Chinese officials raid gang smuggling 108 Vietnamese over border to work as cheap factory labourers PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 30 March, 2016, 11:27am UPDATED : Wednesday, 30 March, 2016, 11:33am Mimi Lau [email protected] Mainland public security raided a human smuggling ring run by nine...

Vaccine scandal highlights public’s lack of trust in the Chinese government PUBLISHED : Sunday, 27 March, 2016, 11:37pm UPDATED : Monday, 28 March, 2016, 12:06am Wang Xiangwei [email protected] It started as a piece of good news on February 23 when Xinhua reported that police in...

‘All involved in China’s massive vaccine scandal must be caught’: China’s top prosecutor vows in-depth probe At least 300 dealers in 24 provinces allegedly bought or sold the expired or improperly stored vaccines; over 130 people have been detained so far PUBLISHED : Saturday, 26 March, 2016...

Who are the five Hong Kong booksellers? A brief look at the men who disappeared and captivated Hong Kong and the world PUBLISHED : Friday, 25 March, 2016, 11:30pm UPDATED : Saturday, 26 March, 2016, 12:27am Phila Siu [email protected] Lee Po, 65 ■ Causeway Bay Books co-owner ■...

Over 300 people detained, thousands of black bikes seized in Shenzhen police crackdown on illegal taxi services A total of 322 people were detained and 3,406 motorbikes or electric bicycles were confiscated on Tuesday, the first day of the crackdown in Shenzhen PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 23 March...

Australia police arrest teen girl suspected of funding Islamic State PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 March, 2016, 3:47pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 22 March, 2016, 3:55pm Reuters Australian police said on Tuesday they had arrested two people, including a 16-year-old girl, on suspicion of raising funds to...

Foreign students dead in Spain bus crash AAP on March 21, 2016, 8:08 am At least 13 people were killed when a bus carrying foreign university students crashed between the Spanish cities of Valencia and Barcelona, authorities say. The students were from at least 19 countries, including many...

Sky high fees and u get this ............ Singapore disciplines 16 senior staff after hepatitis C outbreak in public hospital PUBLISHED : Thursday, 17 March, 2016, 5:13pm UPDATED : Thursday, 17 March, 2016, 5:13pm Agence France-Presse in Singapore A committee that investigated the outbreak...