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| China looking at deal with U.S. to recover dirty assets -report | |  BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China is looking at signing an agreement with the United States to target assets illegally taken out of China by corrupt officials, a state-run newspaper said on Monday, as the government tightens the screws in its anti-graft battle. China has vowed to pursue a search, dubbed Operation "Fox Hunt," beyond its borders for corrupt officials and business executives, and their assets. But Western countries have balked at extradition deals with China, partly out of concern about the integrity of its judicial system and treatment of prisoners. ...
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| Father of dismembered Chinese student calls Canadian killer 'worse than a beast' | |  By Nelson Wyatt MONTREAL (Reuters) - The Canadian man convicted of dismembering a Chinese student was "worse than a beast", the student's father said on Monday. Diran Lin, speaking for the first time since a jury last week found Luka Magnotta guilty of first degree murder, said the 2012 killing of his only son had crippled the Lin family. Magnotta, 32, had admitted to killing and dismembering engineering student Jun Lin, 33, but pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental illness. "He is a beast ... worse than a beast," Lin told reporters through a translator. ...
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| PM Modi says will change rules, laws for manufacturing | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday his government was ready to change rules and laws to speed up manufacturing under the "Make in India" programme, despite political opposition to reforms. India passed an emergency executive order earlier in the day to ease land acquisition rules that are partly blamed for delays in industrial projects worth up to $300 billion. "Need to change laws - we are ready. Need to change rules - we are ready. Need to speed up processes - we are ready," Modi said at the concluding session of a workshop on Make in India. ...
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| Egyptian court permanently bans Jewish festival on "moral" grounds | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court permanently banned a Jewish celebration that has taken place since the 1979 peace deal with Israel and asked the government to remove the tomb where it takes place from a list of official shrines, judicial sources said on Monday. The court said its decision was due to "moral offences" committed in previous years at the three-day festival celebrating the birth of Rabbi Jacob Abu Hasira. It did not elaborate on what the offences were. Jews, mostly from outside Egypt, have congregated every year at the 19th century tomb around Jan. ... |
| Thai PM vows to fight human trafficking in sex trade, fishing industry | |  By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has vowed to crackdown on human trafficking in the sex trade and fishing industry in 2015 and punish any public officials involved after international criticism of Thailand's failure to tackle the crime. Prayuth, an army general who took power in a coup in May, said he would implement a raft of measures to stop human trade in prostitution, child trafficking, forced begging and in the fishing industry. ...
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