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A 36-year-old man received a 12-month jail sentence in Singapore after pleading guilty to burning his childhood friend in 2019 and assaulting his girlfriend while on bail in 2025.
Malaysia's government is examining plans to create a Domestic Violence Offenders Registry to track repeat perpetrators, with three agencies coordinating the initiative alongside shelter upgrades and expanded victim protection services.
A Shanghai court has ruled that a father's repeated posts about family conflicts in his son's school chat groups constitute domestic violence, issuing a personal protection order. The decision reflects evolving legal recognition of psychological harm in family disputes across China.
An Uttarakhand teacher died by suicide eight months after her marriage. Police arrested her husband and sister-in-law following allegations of harassment from her family, with authorities widening their investigation.
A Kampong Cham Provincial Court has handed down a life sentence to Soben Minea for the premeditated murder of nine family members in a horrific November 2025 attack involving decapitation and arson in Cambodia's Kampong Cham province.
A 47-year-old Singapore man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting his girlfriend. The attack, captured on video at Lucky Plaza mall, involved pushing, kicking and punching. He had previously attacked her at a hotel in Bugis.
Prosecutors in Seoul have taken custody of a nonagenarian accused of strangling his wife following a dispute rooted in suspicions of her infidelity. The incident occurred in eastern Seoul on July 21.
An Indonesian maid has received a life sentence in Singapore for suffocating her employer's 73-year-old father with a pillow in 2022. The killing followed accusations of theft and mounting financial pressures from scams.
A Queensland police officer was shot in the leg while responding to a domestic violence incident in Yengarie on Friday evening. The 45-year-old suspect was later found dead during a property search.
A 32-year-old delivery rider in Melaka faces charges of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter and threatening two police officers and a family member across two separate court proceedings.
Police in Perth, Western Australia have arrested a teenage boy after his mother was fatally stabbed and his 12-year-old sister seriously injured in what authorities are treating as a suspected family violence homicide.
A man has been arrested by police in Jitra, Kedah on suspicion of deliberately setting fire to his mother's residence following a heated family quarrel. The incident highlights ongoing concerns about domestic violence in Malaysian households.
Japanese police have arrested a 49-year-old woman on suspicion of assault after she allegedly stitched shut the lips of her 42-year-old female roommate in Ibaraki Prefecture, causing severe injury.
Police in India's Telangana state have arrested a 32-year-old nurse accused of murdering her husband by injecting toilet cleaner into his veins. The killing allegedly followed a failed attempt to push him from a rooftop.