28 January 2025 :

Two men were sentenced to death on January 24, 2025 for separate deadly stabbings in China.
The first man was sentenced to death for killing a Japanese boy, Japan's Kyodo news agency has reported, citing Japanese ambassador to China, Kenji Kanasugi.
The boy, a 10-year-old Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, was stabbed on his way to school on a morning in September last year. He died the following day.
The assailant, identified by Chinese authorities as a 44-year-old man surnamed Zhong, was formally arrested in late November on suspicion of murder, Kyodo had reported.
The attack took place on the anniversary of an incident in 1931 that triggered war between China and Japan, a sensitive date at a time when diplomatic relations are in danger of deteriorating.
The incident in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen last year sparked debate about the country's patriotic education practises.
Kyodo said on January 24 Chinese authorities described the case as an accidental and isolated incident, without giving motives.
It was second such incident near Japanese educational centres in China last year.
In June, a man attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in the eastern city of Suzhou, resulting in the death of a Chinese national who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from the assailant.
A court in Suzhou sentenced that assailant to death on January 24, Kyodo reported.