A total of 31,527 prisoners, most of whom were juveniles when they committed their crimes, have been released thanks to an amnesty deal, according to an official statement on Monday.
An official pardon is being considered for prisoners who meet a certain criteria, according to a draft decision submitted to China's top legislature on Monday.
Police arrested 267,000 suspects involved in 372,000 cases during the first three months this year in its "Chunlei" (spring thunder) campaign, authorities said Tuesday.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal convicted two aging former top leaders of the Democratic Kampuchea, also known as Khmer Rouge, of atrocity crimes against humanity and sentenced them to life in prison, according to a verdict pronounced by the tribunal's president Nil Nonn on Thursday.
The sentence of 50 years imprisonment for former Liberian President Charles Taylor was upheld by the appeals chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Thursday in Leidschendam, near The Hague.
Further cooperation between ASEAN member nations and with dialogue partners are necessary in combating trans-national crimes involving drug and human trafficking, terrorism and high technologies for the sake of peace, stability and development in the region.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) listed the crimes of detained American Pae Jun Ho on Thursday, accusing him of conducting hostile acts, the official news agency KCNA reported.
China will punish the production and sale of unsafe food products more harshly to combat increasingly severe food scandals, judicial authorities said on Friday.
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