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| China says U.S. has "ulterior motives" in award to rights lawyer | | | China said on Thursday the United States has "ulterior motives" in giving a bravery award to a disabled Chinese rights lawyer who said she was not allowed to travel to the United States to receive it. Ni Yulan, who is known for defending people evicted from their homes, was chosen as one of 14 women to receive the State Department's International Women of Courage Award, which the department says is given to female advocates of human rights, justice and gender equality. Ni told Radio Free Asia and other media this week that she was unable to travel to receive her prize because authorities refused to issue her a passport, saying she was under a travel ban because of her contact with other rights lawyers. |
| U.N. envoy says Cambodia tensions near 'dangerous' tipping point | |  A U.N. human rights envoy on Thursday urged Cambodia to ensure judicial fairness and prevent threats and violence as political tension moves the country closer to a "dangerous tipping point". Rhona Smith, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, said political rivalry had led to violence against opposition party members and disproportionate use of judicial mechanisms as attention turns towards a 2018 election. "All laws must be applied equally ... to all political parties and their members to ensure protection of the democratic space in the run up to elections," Smith told a news conference in Phnom Penh.
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| Unpaid Chinese investors descend on offices of martial arts movie backer | | | By Jake Spring SHANGHAI (Reuters) - More than 100 Chinese investors descended on the Shanghai offices of Jinlu Financial Advisors on Thursday demanding their money back from investments, including those tied to a martial arts film whose box office figures were inflated. According to the investors and Chinese media reports, those movies include Ip Man 3, whose distributor admitted last week to buying 56 million yuan ($8.66 million) in tickets to bump up sales. The Chinese film industry has been "blighted" by cinemas and distributors cheating to inflate box office figures through accounting ploys or other tricks, such as claiming ticket sales that exceed an auditorium's capacity, state-owned Xinhua news agency said in its report on the Ip Man 3 fraud last week. |
| Israel sees tourism growth from China, India | |  Israel is looking east to China and India to help drive tourism, as visits to the country have yet to fully recover from the 2014 Gaza war, Tourism Ministry Director-General Amir Halevi said. In 2015, tourism grew 43 percent from China to some 50,000 visitors and the ministry sees that doubling by 2018. It will be helped by the start of nonstop flights next month by Hainan Airlines from Beijing to Tel Aviv that will add 35,000 extra seats to Israel a year.
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| U.N. tribunal acquits Serbian firebrand Seselj of war crimes | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges acquitted Serbian nationalist firebrand Vojislav Seselj of war crimes and crimes against humanity on Thursday, a shock verdict that delivered a boost to his anti-EU Serbian Radical Party ahead of April elections. Prosecutors had accused Seselj of stoking murderous ethnic hatred with his fiery rhetoric at the outset of the 1990s wars that followed the collapse of federal Yugoslavia into seven successor states, a conflict that cost 130,000 lives. On one occasion, Seselj gave a speech to Serbian troops, telling them: "Not a single Ustasha must leave Vukovar alive," using a derogatory term for Croats in 1991 in the eastern Croatian city on the Danube River border with Serbia.
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| South Africa's top court orders Zuma to reimburse state | |  By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's constitutional court ordered President Jacob Zuma on Thursday to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home, a stinging rebuke that hits the scandal-plagued leader financially and politically. The unanimous ruling by the 11-judge court, a central pillar of the democracy established at the end of apartheid, said Zuma had failed to "uphold, defend and respect" the constitution by ignoring the Public Protector's findings on his sprawling rural residence at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2014, the constitutionally mandated anti-corruption watchdog identified a swimming pool, cattle enclosure, chicken run, amphitheatre and visitor centre as non-security items that Zuma must pay for.
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| Congo starts trial of soldiers accused of sexual abuse in Central African Republic | | | Twenty soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo went on trial this week for alleged rape and other crimes committed while serving as U.N. peacekeepers in neighbouring Central African Republic, the Congolese government said on Thursday. The soldiers have been in jail since returning to Congo in December and January following investigations conducted in Central African Republic by military investigators, said Jeanine Mabunda, President Joseph Kabila's adviser on sexual violence. The U.N. mission in Central African Republic has been beset by accusations of sexual abuse since taking over control from an African Union mission in September 2014. |
| Islamic State urges attacks on German chancellery, Bonn airport - SITE group | | | Islamic State posted pictures on the Internet calling on German Muslims to carry out Brussels-style attacks in Germany, singling out Chancellor Angela Merkel's offices and the Cologne-Bonn airport as targets, the SITE intelligence group reported. Western Europe is on high security alert after last week's Islamic State suicide bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people at its airport and in a metro station. The Islamic State images and graphics, widely published by German media on Thursday, included slogans in German inciting Muslims to commit violence against the "enemy of Allah." Germany's BKA federal police, who monitor suspected militants with German passports returning from stints fighting in Syria and Iraq, said it knew of the images but that their publication did not necessitate extra security measures. |
| South Korea prostitutes decry court ruling, demand right to work | |  By Jee Heun Kahng SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean activist prostitutes said on Thursday they would appeal to the United Nations to win back their right to work after the Constitutional Court rejected a petition to overturn a law that punishes sex workers. Prostitution is illegal in South Korea but was generally tolerated in the conservative, Confucian country until a 2004 law set out punishments for both prostitutes and customers of up to a year in jail or a fine of up to 3 million won ($2,600). "We are people and workers just the same," Chang Se-hee, a member of a prostitutes' activist group, told a news conference after the court's decision.
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| Turkish military accuses media of damaging morale, launches legal action | | | The Turkish military said on Thursday it had launched legal action against unspecified media outlets over reports it said were damaging morale, as Turkey faces an almost unprecedented combination of national security threats. Turkey's military has a long history of intervening in politics, pressuring an Islamist-led government out of power as recently as 1997. "The administrative and legal mechanisms of the Turkish Armed Forces, which take their strength from the deep love and trust of the people and express their adherence to democracy at every opportunity, are employed constantly and effectively." It said legal action had been initiated against those writing news "with other motives" who "had gone too far". |
| One dead, dozens wounded in wave of bombs in south Thailand | | | Several bombs have gone off in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south killing one person and wounding dozens in a new wave of violence, the military said on Thursday. The blasts were in Pattani, one of three Muslim-majority provinces in largely Buddhist Thailand, near the Malaysian border, on Wednesday and Thursday. More than 6,500 people, including Buddhist monks, teachers, troops and separatist insurgents have been killed since then. |
| Myanmar's NLD seeks to bolster Suu Kyi's dominant cabinet role | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's majority National League for Democracy (NLD) moved on Thursday to consolidate the dominant role of Aung San Suu Kyi in the new cabinet, underscoring the divide between the party and the powerful army over the junta-drafted constitution. The NLD tabled a special bill, mentioning Nobel peace laureate by name, that would create the post of a National Presidential Adviser, giving her freedom to coordinate intra-ministerial affairs and help influence the executive. The position would likely allow Suu Kyi, who will also oversee ministries of education, energy and electric power, foreign affairs and the president's office, to formally circumvent the constitution barring her from the presidency and allow her to rule "above the president", as she has planned.
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| Italy police arrest suspected "hospital ward" serial killer | | | A woman suspected of murdering 13 patients in a Tuscan hospital in 2014 and 2015 has been arrested, Italian police said in a statement on Thursday. Called "the hospital ward killer", the woman allegedly committed multiple homicides while working as a nurse in the intensive care and anaesthesia ward of a hospital in Piombino, a city on the Tuscan coast. Italy's para-military police, the Carabinieri, detained the woman late on Wednesday. |
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