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| Chinese state media accuse detained labour activists of incitement | | | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media have accused seven detained labour activists of "inciting workers to go on strike", accepting foreign funding and "disturbing social order", sparking criticism from rights groups. Earlier this month, police in Guangzhou detained Zeng Feiyang, the director of the Guangzhou-based Panyu Migrant Workers Centre, on a charge of "disturbing social order", said Zeng's lawyer, Cheng Zhunqiang. The more detailed accusations listed by state news agency Xinhua late on Tuesday follow a string of "confessions" made by high-profile suspects on state television and articles used to discredit detained rights lawyers. |
| Australian police arrest two more men over alleged attack plot | | | By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Wednesday they had arrested two more men in Sydney as part of an operation that thwarted a potential attack by home-grown Islamist militants last year on targets that included a navy base. The arrests of the men, aged 24 and 20, brings to 13 the number of people arrested in the operation, New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters. Earlier this month, police charged five people including a 15-year-old boy over the same alleged plot to attack potential targets that included the headquarters of the Australian Federal Police in Sydney and a navy base in the same city. |
| China says in advanced talks with U.S. on five graft suspects | | | The Chinese government is in advanced talks with the United States on repatriating five of China's most wanted corruption suspects and will hand over whatever evidence is needed by its U.S. counterparts, the state-run China Daily said on Wednesday. In April, China published a list of 100 of its most wanted corruption suspects who have been targeted with an Interpol red notice, many living in the United States, Canada and Australia. China's efforts have long been hampered by Western nations that balk at signing extradition deals, partly out of concern about its judicial system. |
| One man pulled alive from landslide in China's Shenzhen | |  By Paul Carsten SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - A man was pulled alive from rubble in a southern Chinese city on Wednesday, more than 60 hours after a waste heap collapsed and buried dozens of buildings in mud and construction debris, state media said. Tian Zeming, who was found at 3:30 a.m. (1930 GMT Tuesday), was in a coherent state but his legs had been crushed in Sunday's landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, a boomtown near Hong Kong. "He told the soldiers who rescued him, there is another survivor close by," state news agency Xinhua said, although it later reported rescuers had found another body rather than a survivor.
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| Thai junta reaffirms will hand back power in 2017, entering second phase of reforms | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai prime minister and junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha gave a sweeping year-end speech on Wednesday in which he reiterated that the junta will hand back power in 2017 and that it was entering "phase two" of its reform plan. The junta, or National Council for Peace and Order, seized control in May 2014 and overthrew an elected government, putting an end to protests in Bangkok led by the middle classes and elites who wanted to get rid of the civilian government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Since then, it has busied itself with drafting a new constitution and reforms which critics say are designed to limit the powers of political parties and neutralize those seen as loyal to controversial former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck's brother who was ousted in 2006.
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| Hong Kong police charge five over legislature blast | | | Hong Kong police on Wednesday charged five men with conspiracy to arson over a small blast outside the legislature earlier this month. The men aged 18-24 years would appear in court later on Wednesday, a police spokesman said. |
| French forces 'neutralise' 10 militants in Mali operation | | | French forces in Mali "neutralised" around 10 fighters in a weekend operation against the al Mourabitoun Islamist group, which claimed responsibility for an attack on a luxury hotel in the capital last month, France's defence ministry said on Tuesday. Nineteen victims and two gunmen died in the Nov. 20 assault on Bamako's Radisson Blu hotel. A statement released by the defence ministry said fighting during the night from Dec. 19 to Dec. 20 lasted nearly four hours. |
| San Bernardino killer denied militancy in U.S. entry papers | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik denied having any militant sympathies or intentions when she was asked in an application form for a U.S. visa two years ago, documents described to Reuters on Tuesday showed. The papers also showed that statements by Malik and her husband and fellow shooter Syed Rizwan Farook did not raise any alarms among authorities that they were potential Islamic State militants. U.S.-born Farook said they first met in person and became engaged during the October 2013 Haj pilgrimage to Mecca with their respective families, according to other documents released by a congressman on Tuesday.
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| Bahamian arrested in U.S. for hacking celebrities' emails | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Bahamian man has been arrested for hacking celebrities' email accounts to steal movie and TV scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos that he peddled to an undercover agent, federal prosecutors in New York said on Tuesday. Alonzo Knowles, 23, was held without bail after an appearance in Manhattan federal court on criminal copyright infringement and identity theft charges. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the case had the elements of the type of blockbuster scripts Knowles is alleged to have stolen.
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| Insight - Savers in dark over Sahara's latest shadow banking schemes | |  By Sumeet Chatterjee PATNA, India (Reuters) - In 2004, Khitish Kumar Pandey took 10,000 rupees ($150) out of his pension and put it into a savings plan run by India's embattled Sahara conglomerate. The Sahara agent told him his money would triple in 10 years. Sahara India Pariwar (family) had become one of India's most successful companies over the past three decades with this kind of financial alchemy, turning tiny deposits into dreams for small farmers, rickshaw pullers and food vendors with little financial knowledge.
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| Factbox: Money laundering probe into Sahara | |  Although it has businesses ranging from finance and property to media and Formula One motor racing, India's troubled Sahara has never been very transparent on the source and use of the billions of dollars it has raised from mostly small investors. Suspicions have swirled for years that many of Sahara's millions of investors are fictitious names. A team of officials from the Enforcement Directorate, which is responsible for fighting economic crime, last month visited Sahara headquarters in Lucknow to gather data as part of a probe into possible money laundering, said two department officials.
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