China pays 6 pounds a day to woman wrongly jailed
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China has awarded exactly 66,593.36 yuan (4,709 pounds) compensation to a woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her ex-husband and jailed for over two years, local media reported on Wednesday.
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CHINA&#39;S police ministry has handed out rewards of up to 2000 yaun ($330) to people who reported pornographic web sites. Some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 web sites shut down with the help of public
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Infamous for pirating everything from watches to software -- and Nike shoes -- China doesn&#39;t usually level copycat charges. But a Beijing court has ordered Nike to pay damages to a Chinese
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A senior civil servant was jailed for 18 months today after cheating London Underground's fare refund scheme
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Home Secretary David Blunkett said Thursday he plans to bar convicted felons from benefiting from financial windfalls while behind bars after a jailed rapist won 7 million pounds (US&#36;12.6 million) on the national lottery.
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SHAH ALAM: Two men and a woman were separately charged at two Sessions Courts yesterday with counterfeiting and possessing fake currency amounting to RM23,500.
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A Chinese villager has been jailed for 10 years for keeping 80,000 yuan ($11,000) in cash he found in a plastic bag at the scene of a car accident, local media reported on Tuesday.
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A businessman has been sentenced to life in prison and his wife to 14 years behind bars for stealing &#36;50 million in China's second-biggest bank fraud since the start of communist rule in 1949, a news report said.
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A Chinese woman was convicted Tuesday of spying on a major French car parts maker while on a student internship near Paris.
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A Singapore judge has been punished for mistakenly sentencing a prisoner to an extra three strokes of the cane, the Singapore government said on Tuesday.
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A council admits wrongly taking 9,500 payments from bank accounts following a "computer error".
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A woman could be jailed for abandoning her teenage daughter for six weeks to visit her lover abroad.
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A court gave a woman the right Wednesday to claim compensation from a man who sexually assaulted her and then went on to win a lottery jackpot whilst serving a prison sentence.
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A Chinese court has ordered a holiday resort and a crocodile keeper to pay almost 220,000 yuan ($30,600) in compensation to the parents of a nine-year-old boy who was devoured by the reptiles last year.
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Cost to British taxpayer of investigating claims that Diana, Princess of Wales, was murdered have reached an estimated Â£6m
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A Chinese court has awarded a Nanjing Massacre survivor $200,000 in compensation after ruling in her favor against two Japanese historians who claimed she fabricated her account of the atrocity, state media said Wednesday.
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A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for conning people out of 3 billion yuan ($387 million) in a giant scam to breed ants, local media said on Thursday.