Law & Justice

CNN Parent Company Sued for $50 Million By Chinese Billionaire Claiming Defamation

Ashley Cullins reports: A Chinese billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member is suing WarnerMedia over a CNN segment that he claims falsely implies he committed espionage and was on the verge of being deported. Guo Wengui, who’s known as Miles Kwok in [...]

Net Neutrality Comment Fraud Will Finally Be Investigated By The Government

Chris Mills reports: During the Federal Communication Commission’s open period of comment on its net neutrality repeal plan, the commission was flooded with over 22 million comments about net neutrality. Reports at the time, and subsequent [...]

[VIDEO] The Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

When NYU professor Scott Galloway began The Four, his book on Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook, he thought it was a love letter. Now he says it’s time to break up the companies. Why it matters: In a year where the biggest tech companies have [...]

Shinzo Abe Calls for Japan’s ‘Rebirth’ in 2020 Along with Constitutional Revision

Tomohiro Osaki reports: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday reiterated calls for rebooting long-stalled parliamentary debate on the revision of Japan’s post-war Constitution, saying he wants to see a “significant rebirth” of the nation in [...]

Jailed for a Text: China’s Censors Are Spying on Mobile Chat Groups

Authorities scour private chats on messaging apps for blacklisted words, sensitive images. PUYANG, China—Eva Dou reports: One night this September, construction supervisor Chen Shouli fired off a joke in a chat group. “Haha,” he typed on his [...]

Foreign Tourists to Benefit from Revised Consumption-Tax Exemption

Senior members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s tax panel agreed on Wednesday to overhaul the current consumption tax exemption program for foreign visitors, in order to boost tourism-related spending in the country. Foreign visitors are [...]

Restrepo-Schild and her team developed a two-layered artificial retina they say works much like the real thing (Credit: peshkova/Depositphotos)

AI Can Be Made Legally Accountable for Its Decisions

Computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars say AI systems should be able to explain their decisions without revealing all their secrets. By Emerging Technology from the arXiv Artificial intelligence is set to play a significantly [...]

Japan’s First ‘Regulatory Sandboxes’ Could Open Next Spring

Suspending rules in selected zones aims to free innovators and entrepreneurs. TOKYO — Japan is looking to create so-called regulatory sandboxes in three locales as soon as next spring to test technologies such as self-driving cars and [...]

Thailand: Fugitive Yingluck Shinawatra Gets 5-Year Jail Term

BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand’s Supreme Court sentenced former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars. Yingluck fled [...]

ANOTHER REASON TO QUESTION AUTHORITY: Sex Doll Sharing Service Shut Down by Chinese Authorities

Would you pay to share a love doll with strangers? Oona McGee reports: These days, you can rent just about anything: whether you need a bicycle for a couple of hours to run errands or a middle-aged man to hang out with for the day, there’s a [...]

Jury Orders John Steinbeck’s Daughter-in-Law to Pay $13 Million

Gene Maddaus writes: A federal jury on Tuesday ordered John Steinbeck’s daughter-in-law to pay $13 million for interfering in efforts to produce film versions of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden.” The verdict is a huge victory for [...]

Apple will build its first Chinese data center in the southern province of Guizhou.Photo: Wang Gang/Zuma Press

Apple to Build China Data Center to Meet New Cybersecurity Law

Apple’s compliance comes as it faces increasing regulatory headwinds in China. BEIJING — Eva Dou reports: To comply with tough new cybersecurity rules, Apple will for the first time begin storing data for its customers in China with a [...]

Japan’s Terrible Anti-Terror Law Just Made ‘The Minority Report’ Reality

Abe government makes even pondering crimes cause for arrest, with a U.N.-condemned ‘anti-terrorism’ law that hits mushroom-hunters and music teachers, but not actual terrorists. TOKYO — Jake Adelstein reports: On Thursday morning, Japan’s [...]

[VIDEO] What is the Basic Law of Hong Kong?

“One country, two systems” was the catch-phrase coined by China’s president Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s, when China and Britain held negotiations on the future of Hong Kong. The two countries signed the Joint Declaration in 1984, setting out [...]

U.S. Defense Contractor and Former State Department Security Officer Arrested for Spying for China

Mallory, 60, is a fluent Mandarin speaker who had served in the US army, then as a special agent for the security service of the State Department, before becoming a contractor to various government agencies. A US defense contractor and former State [...]

China’s New Cybersecurity Law Leaves Foreign Firms Guessing

点击查看本文中文版 BEIJING — Sui-Lee Wee reports: As China moves to start enforcing a new cybersecurity law, foreign companies face a major problem: They know very little about it. The law — which was rubber-stamped by the country’s [...]

A baby chimpanzee clings to a zookeeper in the Netherlands. A US court has ruled apes do not have the same legal rights as humans. Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP

Chimpanzees Do Not Have Same Legal Rights as Humans, US Appeals Court Rules

Court in New York rules in case of caged adult male chimps Tommy and Kiko that there is no precedent for apes being considered people. Two chimpanzees that were caged at a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary don’t have the legal rights of [...]

In China, iPhone users’ information is highly prized on the black market because of the belief they are more affluent. PHOTO: WANG GANG/ZUMA PRESS

Apple iPhone Data Theft Tests China’s New Cybersecurity Law

Foreign technology companies said they were uncertain how the new law would affect their operations. BEIJING—A week after China’s first cybersecurity law took effect, an investigation over the alleged theft and sale of iPhone users’ [...]

In this March 17, 2017, photo released by China Aid, Chen Guiqiu holds a “Welcome to America” sign with her daughters Xie Yajuan, 15, and Xie Yuchen, 4, at an airport in Texas.

China Lawyer’s Family Tell of Narrow Escape Aided by U.S.

BEIJING (AP) — Stuck in a Bangkok jail with a deportation order against her, Chen Guiqiu waited with dread over what seemed certain to come next. A Thai immigration official showed her surveillance video of the jail entrance, where more than a [...]

[VIDEO] Hong Kong: Former Lawyer Dons Boxing Gloves to Start a Social Enterprise

Anne Chen Wai-yui, a former lawyer gave up her stressful job and found an interest in Thai boxing. She’s now a boxing instructor and started a non-profit business to teach young people from the grassroots families. The activity has helped her [...]

Creator of the ‘Charging Bull’ Threatens Lawsuit Over ‘Fearless Girl’

JONATHAN TURLEY There is an interesting legal claim raised by Arturo Di Modica, the sculptor of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” statue. The bull has long been the cherished symbol of Wall Street. However, recently a small sculpture of [...]

Roman Polanski’s U.S. Return DOA; Judge Rejects Latest Attempt To Avoid Jail

‘Wealthy Celebrity’ Roman Polanski ‘Needs To Be Here,’ LA DA Tells Judge. Dominic Patten reports: Less than two weeks after a hearing that could have begun the process of Roman Polanski returning to the U.S. 39 years after [...]

Former Korean President Park Geun-hye is Arrested

Patrick Frater reports: Park Geun-hye, the former president of South Korea, has been arrested. She was taken into custody early on Friday morning local time after lengthy presentations to a court by prosecutors. Park was removed from office in [...]

Beijing Court Throws Out Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple

Yang Ge reports: A Beijing court has dismissed accusations by a Shenzhen firm that said Apple Inc.’s iPhone violated its external-design copyrights. The case is a victory for the U.S. tech giant as China tries to build up the capabilities of its [...]