HONG KONG (AFP) – Golf’s Taiwan Masters was cancelled on Wednesday (July 15) because of the coronavirus pandemic, casting doubt over the planned September resumption of the Asian Tour season. The long-standing, US$950,000 (S$1.32 million) tournament was scheduled to tee off at the Taiwan Golf and Country Club from Sept 17-20, the same week as
A FIVE-year-old boy is said to have been gang raped by a group of kids all under the age of 13. The brutal attack is claimed to have taken place on a remote beach in northern Queensland, Australia. 3 The savage attack is thought to have taken place on a remote beach at Napranum, Cape
A man has been shot dead by police after they received reports he was seriously assaulting a woman in a park in Melbourne’s north-west. Key points: A man who was attacking an older woman in a Melbourne park has been shot dead by police The man was known to police but did not have a
Last week (9th July), the ICO announced that it would join forces with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) to investigate the use of personal information, including biometric data, by Clearview AI, Inc. (Clearview). Limited information is available so far, but given the focus of the investigation, this is an important step in
JAKARTA (JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Riau Islands police have arrested a supervisor of a Chinese fishing vessel in connection with the death of an Indonesian crew member. Riau Islands police general crimes director Sr. Comr. Arie Darmanto said that the supervisor, a 50-year-old Chinese national named Mr Song Chuan Yun, was suspected of physically
SINGAPORE – People’s feelings about Covid-19 around the world have shifted from fear to anger and joy as the pandemic developed, according to a study led by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) that analysed 20 million tweets on Twitter from January to April. The team’s findings released on Wednesday (July 15) showed that fear was the
Hi all, In today’s bulletin: US & Australia affirm their positions on South China Sea, Washington considers a travel ban on Chinese Communist Party officials, gruesome killing of Bangladeshi tech entrepreneur in Manhattan shocks New York, China’s GDP growth surges but remains fragile, India faces a key challenge in battling Covid-19, and more. Reading this on the
A former Sydney lawyer will spend nearly four years in jail for his role in a plot to retrieve more than $700,000 in drug money seized by police at the Hilton Hotel. Michael Anthony Croke tried for years to “hoodwink” NSW Police into handing over the cash belonging to American criminal Owen Hanson Jr, steering
BADUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) – An Australian woman sentenced to four years imprisonment over the death of a policeman on the Indonesian island of Bali was given early release on Thursday, and was keen to be reunited with family, her lawyer said. Sara Connor, 49, was jailed in March 2017 together with British man David Taylor
Australia: Commercial Crime Update: July 2020 16 July 2020 Johnson Winter & Slattery To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Despite the COVID-19 conditions that exist around the world, activities in the commercial crime space continue along. Australia inches ever
Recent Comments