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Authorities in Setiu have detained a man in connection with allegations of sexual abuse involving his teenage daughter. The arrest marks the beginning of a formal investigation into the serious matter.
A murder-suicide in northern Vietnam's Bac Ninh Province has claimed four lives, including two children, following a domestic dispute. A fifth person sustained injuries.
A 67-year-old retiree has received a 33-year prison sentence and 14 strokes of the cane from the Sessions Court in Muar after admitting to five counts of raping and sexually assaulting his two granddaughters.
Japanese authorities arrested a 35-year-old man in Mie Prefecture for confining his partner's five-year-old daughter inside a garbage can for approximately five minutes on May 12, describing the act as discipline.