There can be few hells worse than spending years in penitentiary for a crime of which you are innocent. It must be like being buried alive. Any scream bounced off the bars must be nothing compared to the torment raging inside the head.

The leader of an anti-Asian crime march held in east Auckland over the weekend says engaging triad gangs for protection would be a last possible resort.

More than a dozen well-known Bay Area authors, politicians and civic leaders will give short tributes to Byrd and his family, leading the audience in a discussion about how racism affects each of us and our community during the 10th Anniversary Tribute to

Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State yesterday identified youth empowerment as the most strategic means of curbing social vices and crime in the society.

VANCOUVER - Chinese youth involved in crime often blame discrimination and a lack of opportunities as reasons they joined youth gangs, the co-author of a report on criminality in the ethnic community told a Vancouver audience Thursday.