Vietnam jails SKorean for setting up internet phone services
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A Vietnamese court has sentenced a South Korean businessman to 16 years' jail for illegally setting up internet-based telephone services in the communist country, a justice official said.
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China sentenced a man to life in jail  on Thursday for running what state media called the country's  biggest ever pirate film disc smuggling ring.
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Four students are arrested for distributing an internet sex video of a famous Vietnam actress.
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Vietnam has arrested seven ethnic  minority people in the past week for attempts to organize  unrest in the restive Central Highlands, state-run media said  Thursday.
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South Korea's president on Monday commuted the death sentences of six inmates on death row and pardoned the founder of the Daewoo conglomerate, convicted of fraud in one of the biggest corporate bankruptcies in history.
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A U.S. federal judge sentenced South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park to five years in prison on Thursday for money-laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Iraq in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal.
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South Korean businessman Tongsun Park, who was accused in the 1970s of trying to buy influence in Congress in the "Koreagate" scandal, was sentenced to five years in prison for accepting at least $2 million to work on Iraq's behalf to influence the U.N. oil-for-food program.
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Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and a US$15 million fine for fraud related to backdating of the storage networking company's stock options.
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SHANGHAI, China  -- Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.    The regulations were issued Sunday in a legal interpretation by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, or top prosecutors office, the official Xinhua News Agency reported...
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FARGO, N.D. - A man who damaged a cell phone store after complaining of bad phone service has been sentenced to 60 days in jail...
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A Hong Kong reporter was sentenced Thursday by a Chinese court to five years in prison on spying charges in a case that prompted outcries by press freedom groups.
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Vietnam's prime minister hosted the country's highest-level online chat Friday, answering questions about everything from corruption to his personal life &#151; a clear break from old-style communism in the rapidly changing country.
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Vietnam has suspended a popular news Web site for failing to obtain a government operating license, state-controlled media reported Wednesday.
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A 20-year-old man gets a modest fine for staging one of the denial-of-service attacks that had the Estonian government contemplating war on Russia. He lives in Estonia.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was   detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday   as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the   Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 22 -- South Korean businessman and influence peddler Tongsun Park was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for his role in the bribery scandal surrounding the United Nation's oil-for-food program for Iraq a decade ago.
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Former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar is given an eight-year jail term for his role in the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik.