For the past few years, U.S. intelligence agencies have been warning about the threat of Chinese espionage. Recently, the administration apparently expelled two Chinese Embassy officials in secret after they drove onto a military base in the state of Virginia. The last time Chinese officials were expelled by the American government was in 1987. The ...
The government of Pakistan is reportedly silencing an investigation on the sale of poor women to Chinese men as brides. China is one of the biggest lenders in the Islamic country. As such, the administration has decided to turn a blind eye to the issue rather than risk losing access to future funds. Selling ...
Last September, a CCTV journalist was arrested for slapping an activist from the UK’s conservative party. The CCTV journalist, 49-year-old Linlin Kong, was recently declared guilty by a British magistrate court. She has been working as a CCTV journalist for about 26 years. Pronounced guilty Linlin assaulted Tory delegate Enoch Lieu, accusing him of “trying ...
It was recently revealed that Beijing tried to install a pro-China politician in Australia’s Federal parliament. Thirty-two-year-old luxury car dealer Nick Zhao from Melbourne was approached by a Chinese agent who offered him a million dollars in exchange for his loyalty to Beijing. Zhao informed the Australian spy agency ASIO about the contact and was ...
In many Shinto and Buddhist shrines, you’ll find racks of emas — small wooden boards that are decorated with beautiful illustrations. When people visit these shrines, they write down their wishes on them, hoping that the gods will fulfill their desires. Of late, several pro-Hong Kong people had hung emas on various shrines. But many ...
A former officer with the CIA, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison on charges of spying and conspiring with China against the United States. The 55-year-old pleaded guilty to his crime. His defense lawyers sought jail time of less than 10 years, while prosecutors wanted him to be in ...
A 12-year-old boy has become the youngest person to be convicted in the ongoing Hong Kong protests. Charged with vandalizing a police station and a railway interchange in October, the defendant pleaded guilty. The name of the boy has been withheld for legal reasons. Crime and conviction “A police officer in plain clothing saw the ...
A National Security Survey conducted by the Swedish Council for Crime Prevention (BRA) shows that sexual crimes in the country rose substantially between 2014 and 2018. Rising sexual crimes According to the report, just 2 percent of the Swedish population reported sexual assaults in 2014. By 2017 and 2018, this percentage grew three times to ...
Edward Peng, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested by the police in late September on charges of espionage for the Chinese government. A resident of Hayward, California, Peng has a background in traditional Chinese medicine and mechanical engineering. Caught in espionage After arriving in the U.S. in 2001, Peng worked as an acupuncturist during the ...
A United States court recently ruled that the police officers who were accused of stealing over US$225,000 during a search warrant cannot be considered guilty. The reason — the officers are protected by qualified immunity and can therefore not be sued. Theft and immunity In 2013, officers from the Fresno Police Department carried out a ...
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