This article is more than 2 months oldThis article is more than 2 months oldTheary Seng receives six-year sentence in ongoing mass trial of government critics in Phnom Penh Global development is supported byLast modified on Thu 16 Jun 2022 12.00 EDTA prominent Cambodian-American lawyer has been sentenced to six years in jail for treason in an against critics of the ruling party.Theary Seng and dozens of activists, many of whom are members of the dissolved opposition group the (CNRP), were found guilty at Phnom Penh municipal court on Tuesday. The trial is one of four covering nearly 130...…This article is more than 2 months oldThis article is more than 2 months oldTheary Seng receives six-year sentence in ongoing mass trial of government critics in Phnom Penh Global development is supported byLast modified on Thu 16 Jun 2022 12.00 EDTA prominent Cambodian-American lawyer has been sentenced to six years in jail for treason in an against critics of the ruling party.Theary Seng and dozens of activists, many of whom are members of the dissolved opposition group the (CNRP), were found guilty at Phnom Penh municipal court on Tuesday. The trial is one of four covering nearly 130...WW…

HAYWARD — Alameda County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man early Saturday in unincorporated Hayward after he opened fire at police, grazing a deputy’s head, the sheriff’s office said.The shooting occurred at about 4 a.m. on the 24900 block of Second Street, Sgt. Ray Kelly said in a brief news release hours later.A sheriff news release identified the man only as a 26-year-old “with an extensive and violent criminal history for shootings, assaults, robbery, weapons, burglary and auto theft.” His name has not yet been released.Kelly said that the office received calls that a man was...…HAYWARD — Alameda County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man early Saturday in unincorporated Hayward after he opened fire at police, grazing a deputy’s head, the sheriff’s office said.The shooting occurred at about 4 a.m. on the 24900 block of Second Street, Sgt. Ray Kelly said in a brief news release hours later.A sheriff news release identified the man only as a 26-year-old “with an extensive and violent criminal history for shootings, assaults, robbery, weapons, burglary and auto theft.” His name has not yet been released.Kelly said that the office received calls that a man was...WW…

By and | Bay Area News GroupCalifornia crossed a major threshold last week: For the first time, state officials moved to adopt a policy that that would give residents who are vaccinated access to different events and activities than those who aren’t.New requirements for a “vaccine passport” — showing proof of vaccination to attend gatherings like weddings, conferences, concerts or theater shows — set California apart from states looking to ban such requirements and raise questions surrounding vaccine access and privilege in a region that has its most vulnerable populations.Starting April...…By and | Bay Area News GroupCalifornia crossed a major threshold last week: For the first time, state officials moved to adopt a policy that that would give residents who are vaccinated access to different events and activities than those who aren’t.New requirements for a “vaccine passport” — showing proof of vaccination to attend gatherings like weddings, conferences, concerts or theater shows — set California apart from states looking to ban such requirements and raise questions surrounding vaccine access and privilege in a region that has its most vulnerable populations.Starting April...WW…

By | Bay Area News GroupChristina Leung was riding Muni near San Francisco’s Chinatown last year when she heard the bus driver talking loudly with a White passenger.A group of Asian American residents had just boarded, and the conductor was complaining about the behavior of “Chinese” customers, thinking they couldn’t understand her, said Leung, a self-described senior citizen who has lived in the Sunset district for more than 30 years after emigrating from Hong Kong.Leung plucked up her courage and told the driver her behavior was improper, she recalled. But over the past year, as former...…By | Bay Area News GroupChristina Leung was riding Muni near San Francisco’s Chinatown last year when she heard the bus driver talking loudly with a White passenger.A group of Asian American residents had just boarded, and the conductor was complaining about the behavior of “Chinese” customers, thinking they couldn’t understand her, said Leung, a self-described senior citizen who has lived in the Sunset district for more than 30 years after emigrating from Hong Kong.Leung plucked up her courage and told the driver her behavior was improper, she recalled. But over the past year, as former...WW…

By | Bay Area News GroupAbout half of the Santa Clara County Sheriff Office employees have declined to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, meaning that dozens of staffers are working in jails unvaccinated, according to the office.Although 861 of the department’s more than 1,800 employees have received both doses of the vaccine, almost 800 more have declined to take the COVID-19 vaccine, sheriff’s officials reported Thursday during the county’s Public Safety and Justice Committee meeting. Another 200 or so employees do not yet qualify to receive it.The high number of refusals left county...…By | Bay Area News GroupAbout half of the Santa Clara County Sheriff Office employees have declined to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, meaning that dozens of staffers are working in jails unvaccinated, according to the office.Although 861 of the department’s more than 1,800 employees have received both doses of the vaccine, almost 800 more have declined to take the COVID-19 vaccine, sheriff’s officials reported Thursday during the county’s Public Safety and Justice Committee meeting. Another 200 or so employees do not yet qualify to receive it.The high number of refusals left county...WW…

By | Bay Area News GroupSanta Clara County has provided excess vaccine doses over the past month to a top county official and dozens of other non-health care workers, raising new questions about providers’ discretion to vaccinate lower-priority people amid a chaotic statewide rollout.While Santa Clara County is not the only provider to encounter the issue, its choices are raising eyebrows in part because the county has simultaneously taken a hard-line stance against other providers who deviate from normal protocols, recently cutting off vaccine to Good Samaritan Hospital because it...…By | Bay Area News GroupSanta Clara County has provided excess vaccine doses over the past month to a top county official and dozens of other non-health care workers, raising new questions about providers’ discretion to vaccinate lower-priority people amid a chaotic statewide rollout.While Santa Clara County is not the only provider to encounter the issue, its choices are raising eyebrows in part because the county has simultaneously taken a hard-line stance against other providers who deviate from normal protocols, recently cutting off vaccine to Good Samaritan Hospital because it...WW…

By | Bay Area News GroupSanta Clara County released new COVID-19 restrictions in light of its rising caseload Saturday, including a three-week ban on all professional, collegiate and high school sports, a mandatory quarantine for those traveling into the region from more than 150 miles away and new capacity limits for indoor businesses.The new restrictions arrive as California experiences its worst COVID-19 surge yet and within hours of a rollback from San Francisco and San Mateo counties, which both announced curfews as they were placed into the state’s most restrictive “purple” reopening...…By | Bay Area News GroupSanta Clara County released new COVID-19 restrictions in light of its rising caseload Saturday, including a three-week ban on all professional, collegiate and high school sports, a mandatory quarantine for those traveling into the region from more than 150 miles away and new capacity limits for indoor businesses.The new restrictions arrive as California experiences its worst COVID-19 surge yet and within hours of a rollback from San Francisco and San Mateo counties, which both announced curfews as they were placed into the state’s most restrictive “purple” reopening...WW…

By | Bay Area News GroupSanta Clara County released new COVID-19 restrictions in light of its rising caseload Saturday, including a three-week ban on all professional, collegiate and high school sports, a mandatory quarantine for those traveling into the region from more than 150 miles away and new capacity limits for indoor businesses.The new restrictions arrive as California experiences its worst COVID-19 surge yet and within hours of a rollback from San Francisco and San Mateo counties, which both announced curfews as they were placed into the state’s most restrictive “purple” reopening...…By | Bay Area News GroupSanta Clara County released new COVID-19 restrictions in light of its rising caseload Saturday, including a three-week ban on all professional, collegiate and high school sports, a mandatory quarantine for those traveling into the region from more than 150 miles away and new capacity limits for indoor businesses.The new restrictions arrive as California experiences its worst COVID-19 surge yet and within hours of a rollback from San Francisco and San Mateo counties, which both announced curfews as they were placed into the state’s most restrictive “purple” reopening...WW…

By | Bay Area News GroupA top Bay Area health official warned Tuesday against repeating the “mistake” of reopening too quickly, even as back for in-person instruction and California’s positivity rate so far in the pandemic.Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday evening that the state’s new coronavirus guidelines — which allow at a faster clip — remain too lenient when it comes to activities like indoor dining, potentially giving way for a repeat of the summer’s wave of cases.Instead, Cody plans to monitor fallout from schools reopening and...…By | Bay Area News GroupA top Bay Area health official warned Tuesday against repeating the “mistake” of reopening too quickly, even as back for in-person instruction and California’s positivity rate so far in the pandemic.Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday evening that the state’s new coronavirus guidelines — which allow at a faster clip — remain too lenient when it comes to activities like indoor dining, potentially giving way for a repeat of the summer’s wave of cases.Instead, Cody plans to monitor fallout from schools reopening and...WW…

By and | Bay Area News GroupA video has surfaced of a couple getting tased, beaten with batons and shot with a less-lethal riot gun after a noise complaint at a San Jose hotel last spring in an incident that ultimately led them to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and multiple police officers.The incident unfolded in May 2019, when San Jose Police Department officers responded to a noise complaint at a Holiday Inn on North First Street, according to the January lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of Northern California. Marissa Santa Cruz and Paea Tukuafu were...…By and | Bay Area News GroupA video has surfaced of a couple getting tased, beaten with batons and shot with a less-lethal riot gun after a noise complaint at a San Jose hotel last spring in an incident that ultimately led them to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and multiple police officers.The incident unfolded in May 2019, when San Jose Police Department officers responded to a noise complaint at a Holiday Inn on North First Street, according to the January lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of Northern California. Marissa Santa Cruz and Paea Tukuafu were...WW…