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| China charges state-owned shipyard ex-head with taking bribes |
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| SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The former chairman of Chinese state-run shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has been charged with taking bribes, prosecutors said on Friday, the latest official to be swept up in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption crackdown. The Supreme People's Procuratorate said in a notice on its website that Gu Tiquan, former board chairman of the Shanghai-based shipyard, would be prosecuted. It did not give details. Hudong-Zhonghua is a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp , one of the largest shipbuilding conglomerates in the country. ... |
| Indonesia's Aceh introduces whipping as punishment for gay sex |
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| BANDA ACEH Indonesia (Reuters) - The Indonesian province of Aceh on Saturday approved an anti-homosexuality law that can punish anyone caught having gay sex with 100 lashes, a lawmaker said. After a three-decade-old separatist movement, a peace agreement signed in 2005 granted special autonomy to Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra, on condition that it remained part of the sprawling archipelago. As part of that deal, Aceh won the right to be the only Indonesian province to use Islamic sharia law as its legal code. ... |
| Japanese swimmer charged with stealing camera at Asiad |
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 INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - A Japanese athlete at the Asian Games has been charged by police after admitting to stealing a camera from a South Korean journalist, police said on Saturday. The Japanese Olympic Committee said in a statement the athlete was swimmer Naoya Tomita, a gold medallist from Guangzhou in 2010 but who finished out of the medals in Incheon. Incheon police told Reuters the athlete had been booked without detention and barred from leaving the country. ...
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| China's top prosecutor body launches campaign to chase economic fugitives - Xinhua |
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| SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's top prosecuting body has launched a six-month campaign targeting corruption suspects, especially those who have fled overseas, as Xi Jinping's government ramps up its crackdown on graft, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. The Supreme People's Protectorate (SPP) said it would use China's confiscation rules more vigorously to prevent corrupt officials from benefiting from their gains and urged prosecutors to collaborate with other departments such as the police and courts to improve the system's efficiency. ... |
| China pledges "harshest penalties" for food-safety violations |
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| SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has vowed to hand out the "harshest penalties" to food safety violators and to further reform the food and drug safety administration, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Vice-Premier Wang Yang made the comment during an inspection tour of Beijing's food safety monitoring centre on Friday, the news agency said. Food safety is a highly emotive issue in China where there have been numerous scandals from photos of food oil being scooped from drains to tales of phoney eggs and melamine-tainted milk powder. ... |
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