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| Crime gangs launder $140 billion through sports betting - report | | | Criminals are using betting on sports events to launder $140 billion each year, a report said on Thursday, exposing a lack of effective regulation that allows match-fixing to spread. \"The rapid evolution of the global sports betting market has seen an increased risk of infiltration by organised crime and money laundering,\" said Chris Eaton of the Qatar-based International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS). The report, compiled by the ICSS and the Sorbonne in Paris, said that 80 percent of global sports betting was being carried out on illegal markets, placing it beyond the reach of regulators and investigators. |
| More than 20 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam | |  More than 20 people were killed in Vietnam and a huge foreign steel project set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and company officials said on Thursday. A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,\" the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone. Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's biggest investor in Vietnam, said its upcoming steel plant in Ha Tinh was set on fire after fighting between its Vietnamese and Chinese workers.
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| Jail, lawsuits cast shadow over Myanmar media freedom | |  By Paul Mooney YANGON (Reuters) - Two years after Myanmar scrapped censorship in one of its boldest reforms, its journalists are again living in fear of jail and are convinced a state-sponsored crackdown is under way to limit press freedom. \"The hardliners in the government think (media freedom) has now gone too far,\" says Thiha Saw, chief editor of the English-language Myanma Freedom. The arrests evoke memories of the country's oppressive past, with detention of members of the media a hallmark of the previous military government, said London-based Amnesty International in a recent statement. Toe Zaw Latt, bureau chief for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), has felt the brunt of the crackdown.
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| Elusive Muscovite with three names takes control of Ukraine rebels | |  In a leaflet distributed this week in the rebel Donetsk region, \"Colonel Igor Strelkov\" assumed command of all rebel forces there and called for Russian army help to ward off what he calls the threat from the Kiev \"junta\" and from NATO. To Kiev and its Western allies, Strelkov is living proof that Moscow is behind the uprising in eastern Ukraine, despite its denials, and trying to replay the scenario that saw it seize the Crimea province in March. Kiev says he is actually an agent of Russia's GRU military intelligence.
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| Japan PM eyes landmark change in limits on military combat abroad | |  By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Advisers to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Thursday for a landmark change in security policy, urging the government to lift a ban that has kept Japan from fighting abroad since its defeat in World War Two. Citing an increasingly tough security environment, the private advisers called in a report for a change to a long-standing interpretation of the post-war, pacifist constitution that says Japan has the right to defend itself with the minimum force necessary, but that combat abroad exceeds that limit. A lifting of the ban on \"collective self-defence\" would be welcome to Japan's ally the United States, but would draw criticism from China, ties with which have been damaged by a territorial row and the legacy of Japan's past aggression. Previous governments have said Japan has the right of collective self-defence under international law, but that the constitution's pacifist Article 9 prohibited taking such action.
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| Hundreds of Chinese enter Cambodia, fleeing Vietnam violence - police | | | Hundreds of Chinese nationals have fled to Cambodia to escape anti-China riots in Vietnam in which at least 20 people are reported to have been killed, Cambodian police said on Thursday. \"Yesterday more than 600 Chinese people from Vietnam crossed at Bavet international checkpoint into Cambodia,\" National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith told Reuters. \"They are at guest houses and hotels in Phnom Penh, with around 100 people staying in Bavet town,\" he added. \"After the situation calms down, they may go back to Vietnam or to other places.\" Bavet is on a highway stretching from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial centre, to Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh. |
| Thai protesters force PM to flee meeting after three killed in Bangkok | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters seeking to oust Thailand's government broke into the grounds of an air force compound on Thursday where the acting prime minister was meeting the Election Commission to fix a date for new polls, forcing him to flee. The disruption of acting Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan's efforts to organise an election came hours after gunmen attacked anti-government protesters, killing three. The turmoil comes as the government loyal to ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra squares off with opponents backed by the royalist establishment over who should be prime minister, in the latest phase of nearly a decade of rivalry. Hundreds of protesters converged outside an air force school in north Bangkok after word spread that Niwatthamrong was meeting commission officials there.
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| Amid protests, U.S. FCC to vote on new 'net neutrality' proposal | |  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. telecommunications regulators will vote on Thursday on whether to formally propose new \"net neutrality\" rules that may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to users. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has come under fire from consumer advocates and technology companies for proposing to allow some \"commercially reasonable\" deals where content companies could pay broadband providers to prioritize traffic on their networks. Critics worry the rules would create \"fast lanes\" for companies that pay up and mean slower traffic for others, although Wheeler has pledged to prevent \"acts to divide the Internet between 'haves' and 'have nots.'\" Some 200 activists have said they plan to protest at the FCC on Thursday, joining a few hard core critics who have camped outside the agency for a week. Consumer advocates were also mobilizing Internet users to protest online on blogs and through social media.
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| South Korea indicts four ferry crew for homicide | |  By Ju-min Park MOKPO South Korea (Reuters) - The captain and three senior crew members of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 280 passengers, many of them school children, were indicted for homicide on Thursday, a senior prosecutor said. Prosecutors also indicted the 11 other surviving crew members of the ferry Sewol on negligence charges. The crew has been under criminal investigation after they were believed to have escaped the sinking vessel before many passengers.
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