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| China offers incentives for criminals overseas to give themselves up | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Corrupt Chinese officials who have fled abroad are being offered reduced sentences and other incentives to give themselves up and return home, state media said on Friday, as the government continues its sweeping campaign against deep-seated graft. Beijing has long grappled with the issue of so-called "naked officials" - government workers whose husbands, wives or children are all overseas - who use foreign family connections to illegally shift assets out of China or to avoid investigation. ...
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| Thai PM stands by investigation into murders of British tourists | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha defended a police investigation into the murder of two British tourists on Friday, amid criticism of shoddy forensic work and concern that two arrested Myanmar men may have admitted the crimes under duress. Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 21, were arrested last week for the murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24. The bodies were found on a beach on the southern island of Koh Tao, or Turtle Island, famous for its coral reefs and diving. ...
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| Anonymous threatens China, Hong Kong authorities with website blackout | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - Anonymous, the nebulous online activist group that uses hacking to further causes it supports, has threatened a major blackout of Chinese and Hong Kong government websites, and to leak tens of thousands of government email address details. The group, under the banner of 'Operation Hong Kong' or '#OpHongKong' and '#OpHK' on Twitter, said on Friday it will launch a mass effort against Chinese government servers to bring down their websites via Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Saturday. ...
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| Pakistan says war with India "not an option" | | | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Friday that war with India was not an option, but that it would respond with "full force" to any attempt to challenge its sovereignty. Fighting between India and Pakistan paused on Friday after days of heavy shelling and gun battles across their disputed Himalayan border in Kashmir, the worst skirmishes between the nuclear-armed rivals in more than a decade. Pakistan's National Security Committee "stressed the fact that both countries are aware of each other's capabilities. ... |
| Pakistan's Malala - idol to the world, outcast at home | |  By Maria Golovnina ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is hailed around the world as a champion of women's rights who stood up bravely against the Taliban to defend her beliefs. But in her deeply conservative homeland, many view her with suspicion as an outcast or even as a Western creation aimed at damaging Pakistan's image abroad. Malala, now aged 17, became globally known in 2012 when Taliban gunmen almost killed her for her passionate advocacy of women's right to education. ...
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| Anti-EU party wins first British parliament seat in landslide victory | |  By Andrew Osborn CLACTON-ON-SEA England (Reuters) - Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party won its first elected seat in parliament on Friday by a landslide and came a close second in another vote, proving it poses a threat to the country's two main parties in a national election next year. UKIP, which wants a British EU withdrawal and strict curbs on immigration, was expected to do well in both votes. But the unexpectedly wide margin of its victory in the seaside town of Clacton and its strong performance in an election in northern England, which it almost won too, came as a surprise. ...
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