Hong Kong court quashes fraud conviction of ex-media mogul Jimmy Lai
The ruling would slightly reduce Lai’s total prison time.
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Accused killer Greg Lynn seeks bail to live with son as lawyers apply for permanent stay in case
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US to allow Venezuelan oil sales to Cuba as alarm grows in the Caribbean
US eases oil embargo on Cuba as Caribbean neighbours warn worsening humanitarian crisis could destabilise region.
South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program.
The father of a US-based Hong Kong activist is sentenced to 8 months under national security law
A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought against the relative of a pro-democracy activist wanted by the city’s authorities under a national security law.
Southeast Asia’s Grab Finally Turns a Profit
Under mounting pressure from shareholders, the app finally broke into the black for the first time last year.
Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K+ downloads since its release (Reece Rogers/Wired)
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Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K+ downloads since its release — An open source project called Scrapling is gainin…
Orban steps up oil accusations against Ukraine after vetoing EU loan to Kyiv – BBC
Orban steps up oil accusations against Ukraine after vetoing EU loan to Kyiv BBCHungary accuses Ukraine of ‘oil blockade,’ deploys soldiers to key energy facilities CNBCFrance and Czech SAFE defence loan plans cleared, sources say…
Orban steps up oil accusations against Ukraine after vetoing EU loan to Kyiv
Hungary’s prime minister accuses Ukraine of imposing an “oil blockade” after Kyiv says a critical pipeline was closed following Russian strikes.
Park Chan-wook will lead the Cannes Film Festival jury, will be the 1st Korean in the role
Park Chan-wook, the Korean filmmaker of “Oldboy” and “No Other Choice,” will head the jury at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers announced Thursday.