HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court on Thursday ( Dec 12 ) convicted prominent former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting for rioting after he was attacked by a white-shirted mob in July 2019 at the height of that year’s pro-democracy protests. On the day of Jul 21, 2019, more than 100Continue Reading
A slightly modified edition of the well-known Feliz Navidad Christmas song by song Baek Ja, which has an impeachment-themed theme, also went viral last week.
” Christmas is joyful when Yoon Suk Yeol retires”, the song’s lyrics go.
Last Wednesday night, in front of the National Assembly building, protesters carrying signs that said” Arrest ( Yoon ) immediately” and” Impeach”, waved lit candles and cellphones as the singer performed the song.
South Koreans even have cranked up romantic music.
In the late 1970s, the government started offering exercise classes in schools, and many South Koreans who attended schools in the 1980s and 1990s are fond of the programs: simple, repetitive actions performed to cheerful music.
Since last week, activists have performed the routines to the common rhythm while singing:” Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol”.
Some people used padded coats and hats, armed with glow sticks, to fend off the cold weather.
The group boycotted the final vote, preventing a consensus. To indict Yoon, at least 200 votes are required. Since opposition parties have 192 chairs, they must have at least eight PPP people in order to meet. At least seven members of the party were expected to support a new senateContinue Reading
After pornography cases were reported in motel rooms and guesthouses across the country, China’s top prosecutor has pledged to bite down on illegal recordings and the sale of invisible recording equipment.  ,
The Supreme People’s Court provided details in a statement released on Wednesday ( Dec. 11 ) regarding four voyeurism cases, two of which occurred in hotels and guesthouses.
” In recent years, there have been instances of pornography from time to time, causing widespread problem in society”, the prosecutor said.  ,
Hidden devices were installed in a number of hotels and guesthouses between April 2021 and January 2022 to record customers engaging in sexual behavior in a situation involving five suspects.
The footage was sold through instant messaging apps and perpetrators made a” total profit” of more than 290, 000 yuan ( US$ 39, 930 ), the court said.  ,
One of the offenders, named Shi, was primarily in charge of installing the concealed cameras on the properties. Four individuals, who had bank accounts to collect money from online movie sales, assisted him.  ,
Shi even processed and sold the film, the prosecutor said.  ,
The Wuxing District Women’s Court in Huzhou, a town in eastern Zhejiang province, heard the case second. The suspects ‘ use of hidden cameras to secretly record sexual activity and then sell the images for profit, according to the prosecution,” constituted the violence of making and selling obscene materials for income.”  ,
Shi was the “principal offender” and “played a significant position,” according to the prosecution, while the other defendants were compliciters and deserve sentences that were less harsh or less severe.  ,
After being detained and “voluntarily pleaded guilty,” the court sentenced the five men to fixed jail sentences of up to 10 times and fines ranging from 10,000 to 300,000 yuan.
For some people, Yoon’s activities brought back memories of this revolution. The nation has a troubled social history, having been under authoritarian rule for almost three decades before a politics.
One Seoul citizen told CNA:” At second, I felt a bit nervous. I thought,’ Is this another piece of something like the Chun Doo-hwan era’?
” I wondered,’ Could they really get repeating what happened up then’?”
Another native called Yoon’s proceed” humilitating” and an affront to the South Asian people.  ,
More people have turned to Netflix to understand the upheaval, with the video 12.12: The Day, which features the events of the 1979 coup, currently ranked among the North Korean movie streaming services.
As the country moved towards politics, South Korea’s 1987 Constitution introduced some vital protection.
To stop a protracted concentration of power seen during autocratic regimes, the leader should be able to serve for a second five-year term.
A second guard is the ability to have parliamentary control over executive activities, such as the power to remove the president from office with a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly and to reject a military law order with a simple majority vote.
The Supreme Court of South Korea on Thursday ( Dec. 12 ) upheld a two-year jail term for prominent opposition leader Cho Kuk for falsifying academic records to get his children’s admission to prestigious universities. Following his brief but valiant enactment of military law next year, which plunged political SouthContinue Reading
SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol lashed out at his political opponents as “anti-state causes”, said North Korea perhaps had hacked the country’s votes, and defended next year’s short-lived martial law attempt as a legal move to defend democracy. His remarks on Thursday ( 12 December ) came asContinue Reading
BEIJING:  , A blast rocked a residential high-rise building in an affluent area of the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Wednesday ( Dec 11 ), state media reported. Shenzhen’s fire brigade said it sent 80 rescue personnel and 16 fire trucks to the scene after receiving a report ofContinue Reading
A senior prisons official reported on Wednesday ( Dec. 11 ) that South Korea’s former defense minister attempted suicide shortly before being formally detained over his role in this month’s martial law operation. Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, imposed martial law on December 3 and sent troops and helicopters toContinue Reading
Former defense secretary Kim Yong-hyun, who was detained on Tuesday, has been accused by criticism politicians of ordering strikes on locations where North Korea was launching garbage balloons. His subordinates officially objected to his reprimand. He reportedly also reportedly ordered drones to be flown to Pyongyang, the capital of NorthContinue Reading