This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

November 10, 2024-November 16, 2024

Chinese police detain a man who they say drove his car into a group of people exercising at a sports center, killing 35; a Hong Kong reporter files a wrongful dismissal claim against the Wall Street Journal for firing her weeks after her election as the leader of the city’s largest press group; a South Korean court convicts opposition leader Lee Jae-myung of making false statements during his presidential campaign and gives him a suspended prison sentence; Japan’s prime minister keeps his job and vows to crack down on misuse of political funds; lawyers in Taiwan plan to protest against proposed legislation that could paralyze the Constitutional Court.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China revises its Anti-Money Laundering Law to address new forms of money laundering; the Hong Kong Law Society sends warning letters to sixteen lawyers associated with a fund that supported legal aid for 2019 protesters; Japanese opposition parties agree that the law governing political funds needs revision but not how to revise it; South Korea' fines Meta $15 million for collecting and sensitive user data and sharing it with advertisers; Taiwan's Ministry of Justice withdraws a proposal to increase the fines for various abortion-related illegal acts following an outcry from women's rights groups.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China announces policies intended to boost births; a Hong Kong court upholds a new rule blocking defendants in national security cases from calling overseas witness to testify virtually; a second Japanese high court rules that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional; a South Korean court orders the state to compensate the family of a murder victim because police failed to identify and punish his killer; a Taiwan court extends the detentions of Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je and other suspects in a high stakes bribery investigation.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China issues new export controls for dual-use goods; a Hong Kong court hears the first legal challenge to the new Safeguarding National Security Ordinance; a Japanese police chief apologizes to an exonerated man who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate; a South Korean court hears arguments about the abortion of 36-week fetus; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court deems unconstitutional key portions of legislation that would have significantly increased the power of the legislature over the executive branch.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate says it will stop using unreasonable performance evaluation indicators for prosecutors; Hong Kong’s stock market regulator announces streamlined procedures for vetting new listings in hopes of boosting the number of IPOs; US lawmakers urge Japan to strengthen restrictions on sales of chip-making equipment to China; a South Korean court orders the government to compensate an 82-year-old man for his wrongful conviction and imprisonment on spy charges more than five decades ago; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court prepares to issue a much-anticipated decision about controversial amendments passed by the legislature in May that give the legislature broad investigative powers and the authority to hold executive branch officials in contempt.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China releases a draft Private Economy Promotion Law for public comment, after several difficult years for the country's private sector; Hong Kong's top court hears arguments over whether same-sex couples should enjoy the same inheritance rights as heterosexual married couples.; Japan enacts a law that offers an apology and compensation to victims of forced sterilization; a South Korean woman sues the government and others for facilitating the overseas adoption of her kidnapped daughter; China detains four Taiwanese employees of Foxconn.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China's national legislature seeks public comments on six bills; another foreign judge announces his departure from Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeals; South Korean prosecutors decline to bring criminal charges against the president's wife for accepting an expensive gift handbag; Japan's legislature elects the new head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Shigeru Ishiba, as prime minister; following a court ruling that limits use of the death penalty, Taiwan's justice minister says death row inmates will remain in prison unless the top prosecutor's office files an extraordinary appeal on their behalf.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China's Supreme People's Court releases an interpretation of tort law; Hong Kong sentences two journalists to prison for sedition; a Japanese court exonerates a man who spent 48 years on death row; South Korea's legislature approves a law that would punish knowingly possessing or viewing deepfake pornography; Taiwan's opposition parties express dissatisfaction with the executive's nominees for the Constitutional Court.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

A 10-year-old Japanese boy is fatally stabbed in China while walking to school on the anniversary of the outbreak of war between Japan and China in 1931; a Hong Kong court sentences one man to 14 months in prison and another to 10 months for displaying or writing a protest slogan; former Nissan Motor Corp. executive vice president Greg Kelly appeals his conviction for under-reporting the compensation of his boss, Carlos Ghosn; Taiwan's Constitutional Court upholds the death penalty punishment but restricts its use to the most serious crimes.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China's legislature approves an increase in the official retirement ages for men and women for the first time in 70 years; the Beijing and Hong Kong governments criticize a move by the US House of Representatives that could result in closing Hong Kong's trade offices in the United States; a Japanese court grants Japanese nationality to a child born in Japan to Afghan refugees; South Korea's Supreme Court upholds a life sentence for a man who stabbed strangers at a Seoul subway station; lawyers for former Taiwan presidential candidate Ko Wen-je say he will not appeal his detention without bail in a corruption investigation.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

Chinese police detain well-known artist Gao Zhen because of his irreverent depictions of the late Chairman Mao Zedong; Hong Kong police move to quash memorials at an MTR station on the fifth anniversary of police attacks on protesters there in 2019; Japanese prosecutors indict a former lawmaker for using public funds to pay a fictitious employee; the social media company Telegram apologizes to South Korean authorities for allowing deepfake pornographic material to be shared on its messaging app; a Taiwan court orders former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je to be detained incommunicado on suspicion of corruption.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights urges China to investigate and correct alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang; a Hong Kong court convicts two former Stand News editors and its parent company of sedition for publishing 11 articles critical of the government during the 2019 protests; Japanese prosecutors indict a former lawmaker on charges of misusing political funds; South Korea's Constitutional Court orders the government and legislature to rewrite the country's climate change law to include more concrete measures; anti-corruption investigators in Taiwan raid the home and office of former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je, leader of the Taiwan People's Party, in connection with a mall development project while he was Taipei mayor.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

Chinese prosecutors formally charge a Japanese businessman with espionage in a case that has chilled the Japanese business community; a Hong Kong court sentences a man to eight weeks in prison for covering his ears and remaining seated while the national anthem was played at a sports event; Japan's Liberal Democratic Party schedules its party leadership election for September 27 - an event that will determine who is Japan's next prime minister; a South Korean court refuses to hand down the death penalty to the man convicted of killing two persons and injuring twelve in a random attack at a department store; a Taiwan court convicts eight active-duty military officers of spying for China and sentences them to up to 13 years in prison.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

China's Ministry of Civil Affairs proposes to make marriage registration more convenient; Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal upholds the convictions of seven pro-democracy activists for participating in a peaceful march in 2019; Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announces he will step down as head of his party and therefore as prime minister; South Korea's government says it will help medical schools cope with an ordered surge in new admissions; Taiwanese law enforcement agencies conduct a series of raids in response to financial crimes.

This Week in Asian Law

This Week in Asian Law

An unmarried Chinese woman loses her five-year legal battle to be allowed to freeze her eggs; a Hong Kong citizen challenges the Environmental Protection Agency’s green light to build a 600-hectare tech hub adjoining Shenzhen; a Japanese court convicts a local police officer of leaking confidential information from more than 100 cases to a journalist; South Korean authorities indict the founder of the tech giant Kakao on charges of stock price manipulation; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court hears oral arguments in a challenge to a set of legislative amendments that significantly expand the power of the Legislative Yuan.

USALI Research Scholar Chi Yin Explains Trump's Criminal Conviction for Chinese Readers

U.S.-Asia Law Institute Research Scholar Chi Yin published an article, “People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump: The Trial and Conviction of a Former U.S. President,” on Wolters Kluwer’s Chinese language website. She and her co-author, Arthur Chiu of Cyan Law Firm, analyze the former president’s conviction in the hush-money case to clarify common misunderstandings in China about the US criminal justice system and its relationship to the political system. Read more.