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| Hong Kong student leader banned from Mong Kok protest site | |  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong was banned from a large area in Mong Kok as a condition of bail on Thursday after he was arrested during scuffles with police as they cleared one of the largest protest sites that have choked the city for weeks. Wong and activist lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, who RTHK radio said was also banned from Mong Kok, were charged with obstructing court bailiffs and did not enter a plea. They are due to appear again in court on Jan. 14. Wong, Leung and Lester Shum were among more than 100 people arrested in Mong Kok over the past two days. ...
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| Malaysia to retain and prop up Sedition Act, says PM | |  KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday bolstered a law protecting the sanctity of Islam and the country's traditional rulers, the sultans, in an about-turn to scrap a law banning criticism of the government. Najib pledged in 2012 to repeal the Sedition Act - a relic of the British colonial era intended to keep a tight lid on racial tensions and social unrest in the multi-ethnic country - as part of a raft of liberal reforms to promote openness. Rights groups and lawyers have criticised the Sedition Act, saying it inhibits freedom of speech. ...
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| Thai election pushed back to 2016 - deputy PM | |  BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai general election planned for next year will be delayed until 2016, a deputy prime minister said on Thursday, pushing back the promised return to democracy. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led a military coup in May, had previously hinted at a delay to polls promised for late 2015. Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, who is also defence minister, said elections will take place in 2016, citing groups opposed to the junta, or National Council for Peace and Order, as it is formally known, as one reason for the delay. ...
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| Streets of Ferguson quiet after two nights of racial unrest | |  By Ellen Wulfhorst, Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, were mostly quiet on Wednesday after two nights of racially charged unrest following a U.S. grand jury decision to clear a white policeman over the killing of an unarmed black teenager. A couple of dozen protesters huddled in the falling snow outside police headquarters in the St. Louis suburb, in sharp contrast to the hundreds who took the streets on Monday in a night of arson, looting, sporadic gunfire and clashes with police that ended in more than 60 arrests. ...
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| China takes "zero tolerance" approach to regional polluters: Cabinet | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China will take a "zero tolerance" approach to a wide range of environmental violations and has promised stronger action against regional governments that protect polluters or hinder inspections, according to a Cabinet document. Authorities across China have been ordered to take part in a comprehensive inspection programme to be completed by the end of 2015, said the policy document that was released on the official government website (www.gov.cn) late on Wednesday. ...
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| U.S. top law enforcer promises strong Ferguson police probe - activists | |  By Julia Edwards and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told civil rights activists the Justice Department would aggressively investigate police practices in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury declined to indict a white officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager, two of the activists said on Wednesday. ...
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| Angry outbursts in Ferguson overwhelm organized protests | |  By Ellen Wulfhorst and Carey Gillam FERGUSON/KANSAS CITY, MO. (Reuters) - Angry over the shooting of Michael Brown, thousands of people in August took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, with the hope the policeman who shot the unarmed black teenager would be charged. This week, the protests have become more violent and less organized as that hope has soured into bitterness over a grand jury's decision not to indict the policeman, Darren Wilson. ...
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