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| China prosecutors investigate former investment boss for graft | | | Chinese prosecutors are investigating the former chairman of a top investment body in the southwestern province of Sichuan for corruption, state media reported on Tuesday, as the world's second-largest economy deepens its probe into deep-seated graft. Huang Shunfu, once the chairman of Sichuan Provincial Investment Group Co. Ltd., a state-owned investment firm under Sichuan's provincial government, is suspected of taking bribes, the official Xinhua news agency said via its microblog, citing judicial authorities in the province. Sichuan Provincial Investment Group is a key player in financing construction projects in the province, and has also been involved with energy firms. Sichuan was once a stronghold of disgraced security boss Zhou Yongkang, who was felled last year amid a sweeping anti-graft campaign by President Xi Jinping. |
| Second suspected human trafficking camp found in Thai south | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - A second suspected human trafficking camp has been discovered in southern Thailand, police said on Tuesday, following a search by authorities of a mountain where 26 bodies were found in shallow graves at the weekend. The 26 bodies are believed to be illegal migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh and were found at a suspected human trafficking camp hidden deep in the jungle in Thailand's southern Songkhla province near the Malaysian border. Every year, thousands arrive in Thailand, brought by smugglers. On Monday, Thai police announced charges including human trafficking and holding people for ransom against a Rohingya man and three local government administrators.
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| Execution of Pakistan death row convict stayed in dispute over age | |  Shafqat Hussain was due to be executed on Wednesday. In March, he was dressed in a white uniform ready for hanging and told to write his will before his execution was postponed while the Federal Investigation Agency looked into the question of his age. The agency, Pakistan's equivalent of the U.S. FBI, later determined he was not a juvenile at the time of the killing and a new execution date was set. "The judge has ruled that the FIA did not have the mandate to conduct the investigation into Shafqat's age and this should be done by a competent judicial forum," Shahab Siddiqui, of the Justice Project Pakistan, a legal aid group representing Hussain, told Reuters.
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| Suspected cattle rustlers kill 45 in northwest Kenya - administrator | | | Suspected cattle rustlers ambushed and killed at least 45 people in a village in northwest Kenya, then drove away hundreds of livestock, a regional administrator said. At least 14 people also died in a fight between two pastoralist communities on Monday, on the borders of Kenya's northern Samburu and Marsabit counties, the regional manager for the Kenya Red Cross, Mugambi Gitonga, said. |
| South Korean arrested by North says he is well, was just trying to help | | | By Sohee Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean college student arrested by North Korea for illegal entry said he was hoping for a "great event" to help strengthen relations between the diplomatic rivals and acknowledged he had broken the law, CNN reported on Tuesday. Joo Won-moon, 21, a student at New York University, was arrested on April 22 after crossing from the Chinese side of the Yalu river, the North's official KCNA news agency said. I've been fed well slept well and I've been very healthy." North Korea, heavily sanctioned by the United Nations for its missile and nuclear tests, is technically still at war with the South after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. New York University said Joo was a student at its Stern School of Business but not taking classes this semester. |
| Shanghai bans leaders' family members from business | | | The Shanghai government has introduced rules to restrain the families of senior city officials from running private businesses, in a pilot measure that will eventually go nationwide in China's sweeping campaign against corruption. The rules are among the most direct attempts to short-circuit the cycle of graft in China since President Xi Jinping launched an anti-corruption drive after coming to power more than two years ago. |
| Mohammad cartoonist says U.S. police killing of two gunmen 'justice' | | | Justice," artist Bosch Fawstin tweeted on Monday. Fawstin's winning entry depicts a sword-wielding Prophet in a turban shouting, "You can't draw me." In reply, a cartoon bubble portrays the artist, his hand grasping a pencil, as saying, "That's why I draw you." The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), sponsor of the Sunday night event, gave Fawstin, a Bronx, New York-born, former Muslim, $12,500 in prize money and introduced him to the crowd as a courageous and righteous man. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which includes AFDI on its annual list of U.S. hate groups, plans to add Fawstin to its 2016 report, Heidi Beirich, director of the tracking effort, told Reuters on Monday. |
| 'Django Unchained' actress to apologize to police | | | An actress who accused Los Angeles police of mistreating her due to her race during an arrest last year pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace over the incident on Monday and was ordered to write an apology letter to the officers, officials said. Daniele Watts, best known for her role in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 slavery western "Django Unchained", made headlines last September when she said she had been accosted by police largely because she is black and her boyfriend is white. Watts and her boyfriend, Brian James Lucas, each pleaded no contest to a count of disturbing the peace by loudness in a Los Angeles court, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office spokesman Rob Wilcox said. |
| Obama says inequality facing minority men behind unrest in Baltimore, Ferguson | |  Following a week of racially charged protests in Baltimore, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said that the residual effects of racism have built up over time and created inequality. Speaking on one of the final episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman, Obama said the effects of slavery, Jim Crowe laws and discrimination in American history have left minority communities at a disadvantage. Earlier in the day, Obama spoke at Lehman College in the Bronx where he announced the launch of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, a nonprofit organization that is a spinoff of a White House initiative to increase opportunities for young minority men. Obama said black and Latino men feel disadvantaged, and he credited their sense of frustration about their lives and opportunities for the intensity of recent protests around the country.
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