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| Chinese police charge British former GSK China head with bribery | |  By Megha Rajagopalan and Kazunori Takada BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese police on Wednesday said they had charged the British former China head of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC and other colleagues with corruption, after a probe found the firm made billions of yuan from bribing doctors and hospitals. Mark Reilly and two Chinese executives, Zhang Guowei and Zhao Hongyan, were also suspected of bribing officials in the industry and commerce departments of Beijing and Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency reported, quoting police in Hunan province. It is the biggest corruption scandal to hit a foreign company in China since the Rio Tinto affair in 2009, which resulted in four executives, including an Australian, being jailed for between seven and 14 years. The money involved was in the billions of yuan,\" a Ministry of Public Security official told a press conference in Beijing.
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| Pop singer Justin Bieber accused of attempted robbery: police | |  (Reuters) - Pop singer Justin Bieber has been accused of attempted robbery, a Los Angeles Police Department official said on Tuesday, following media reports that he had tried to snatch a young woman's mobile telephone. Bieber, 20, has not been arrested or questioned, said LAPD spokeswoman Rosario Herrera. A spokeswoman for Bieber did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The incident occurred at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles.
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| Vietnamese riot in industrial zones in anti-China protest | | | Rioting broke out at industrial zones in southern Vietnam during protests by thousands of workers angered by Chinese oil drilling in a contested area of the South China Sea, officials said on Wednesday. Workers smashed gates in the rioting on Tuesday and entered industrial parks housing factories in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces, which are central to Vietnam's sizable manufacturing interests. The destruction comes amid high tensions between China and Vietnam, which have close trade and political ties despite a history of incursions and territorial battles that are the source of deep resentment among Vietnamese. Vietnam's state-run newspapers and its television channels reported the rioting on Wednesday, but did not show photographs or any video footage. |
| Interim Thai PM to meet election body as coup fears mount | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's interim prime minister will meet the Election Commission on Wednesday, in the hope of fixing a date for polls that the government sees as the best way out of the country's protracted crisis but its opponents will probably reject. The crisis is the latest phase in nearly 10 years of hostility between the royalist establishment and Thaksin Shinawatra, a former telecommunications billionaire who won huge support among the rural and urban poor but angered the Bangkok-based elite and was deposed by the military in a 2006 coup. Last week, the Constitutional Court threw Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin's younger sister, and nine of her cabinet ministers out of office for abuse of power. But the remaining ministers selected a new premier and the caretaker government is hoping for a July 20 election that Yingluck's Puea Thai Party would probably win, given the enduring popularity of her brother.
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| Police say GlaxoSmithKline China head ordered bribery | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police said on Wednesday the former China head of British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC ordered his subordinates to commit bribery, bringing in "illegal revenue worth billions", the official Xinhua news agency reported. Mark Reilly, former head of China operations, and two other executives, Zhang Guowei and Zhao Hongyan, were also suspected of bribing officials in the industry and commerce departments of Beijing and Shanghai, Xinhua said. (Reporting by Kazunori Takada and John Ruwitch; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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