Seoul court orders Japan to compensate 12 Korean sex slaves
The Seoul Central District Court ruled the Japanese government must give 100 million won ($91,360) each to the 12 women who filed the lawsuits in 2013.
Fri Jan 08 2021
Documents Ghislaine Maxwell fought to keep secret slated for release Thursday
Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 to engage in illegal sexual acts.
Thu Oct 22 2020
Seagram's heir sentenced to prison in branded sex slave case
The hearing lasted more than three hours, featuring emotional statements from several victims gathered in a courtroom.
Thu Oct 01 2020
Siblings become sex slaves to father, uncles and grandfather
The suspects, who are farmers, and aged between 26 and 57, have been arrested.
Fri Aug 11 2017
South Korea to build museum for wartime sex slavery victims
Chung Hyun-back visited the House of Sharing for her first official activity, vowing to set up the museum to remember "comfort women" victims.
Mon Jul 10 2017
17 Uzbekistan women rescued from sex slavery
Without divulging the age of the 17 victims, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed the incident in his official Twitter account today.
Tue Nov 08 2016
Police nab man who made 12-year-old girl his sex slave
The 24-year-old suspect was arrested at his house in Taman Setia Jaya in Alor Setar, Kedah.
Tue Oct 11 2016
Man makes 12-year-old girl his sex slave
A standard six pupil became a sex slave to a 24-year-old man, after meeting him through messaging application, WeChat.
Mon Oct 10 2016
Bacha bazi: Afghan subculture of child sex slaves
The subculture of keeping boys for personal servitude and sexual pleasure is a centuries-old practice in Afghanistan.
Thu Jun 16 2016
'Bacha Bazi': Taliban use child sex slaves to kill Afghan police
The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of paedophilic boy play known as "bacha bazi".
Thu Jun 16 2016
Daish militants appear to be hawking sex slaves online
Social-media sites used by Islamic State militants in recent months have included numerous accounts of the buying and selling of sex slaves.
Sun May 29 2016
Police arrest man for allegedly making maid a sex slave
Police have arrested a 69-year-old man, whose wife is in coma, for allegedly having made a sex slave of one of two Indonesian maids at their home in Subang Jaya here.
Tue May 03 2016
Cash-strapped ISIS offers $50 a month to fighters - but more if they own sex slaves
Salary details and other minutiae of life in the Islamic State are contained in a series of unusual documents released on Friday by a scholarly journal.
Sat Apr 23 2016
7 foreign women rescued from 'sex slavery'
The police rescued seven foreign women allegedly forced into sex slavery during a raid at an entertainment centre in Jalan Imbi on Saturday.
Sun Mar 06 2016
The Islamic State's horrifying practice of sex slavery, explained
Violence against women has been embedded in the Islamic State's worldview and strategic operations.
Fri Aug 21 2015
'No one will win a trade war,' China says after Trump tariff threat
Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.
Tue Nov 26 2024
What has caused Pakistan's deadly clashes between police and supporters of Imran Khan?
Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.
Tue Nov 26 2024
One woman or girl killed every 10 minutes by intimate partner or family member - UN
The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".
Tue Nov 26 2024
Sweden urges Chinese ship to return for undersea cable investigation
Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.
Tue Nov 26 2024
[COLUMNIST] Building more highways won’t solve traffic congestion - reducing demand will
It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Hyundai to invest RM2.16 bil in Malaysia through strategic partnership with INOKOM
This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.
Tue Nov 26 2024
‘C4Cinta’ sets record as highest-grossing Malaysian Tamil film
'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Man charged with mother's murder, storing body in freezer
The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Abolition of examination in schools to reduce pressure on pupils - Fadhlina
The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Google, Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children
Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.
Tue Nov 26 2024