For several years now, she has prepared story after story for RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service and other media detailing corruption in the highest echelons of the country's government -- including the vast financial holdings of President Ilham Aliyev and his family.

Sydney's leafy streets are a world away from the opium-producing poppy fields of war-torn Afghanistan. But the rise of Iranian organised crime, flourishing internationally and entering Australia, is now reducing that gap.

The U.S. government entered the battle against Japanese organized crime, announcing a freeze on American-owned assets controlled by the largest yakuza syndicate, Yamaguchi-gumi, and the group's top two leaders.

Veteran comic's admission sheds light on ties

Japanese football is taking steps to keep organized crime out of the sport in order to avoid the fate of its South Korean counterpart.

The Environment Agency is looking into reports that 113 containers of toxic waste deriving from the UK and the Netherlands arrived at an Indonesian port last week.

Reports circulated widely Wednesday that one of the country's most famous crime fighters had tried to defect to the United States.

Two years ago, the authorities in this gritty rust-belt region declared war on the yakuza, Japan’s entrenched organized crime syndicates. And that is exactly what they got.

A court sentenced a former Cambodian drug czar to life in prison Thursday for committing the very crime he was hired to fight.

Undercover operation combating triad related activities is getting tougher because triad members have become more cautious, police said on Monday, following another large-scale anti-triad operation code named Nightstinger.