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| Corrected - With climate deal, activists seek land rights for native people | | Friday, April 22, 2016 2:20 AM | |
|  (Corrects the grammatical error in the headline) By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With world leaders converging in New York to sign a landmark climate deal, activists along with actor Alec Baldwin called on Thursday for a halt to deforestation, a contributor to global warming, by giving indigenous people rights to their land. Keeping indigenous tribes from being pushed off their land would help protect forests that absorb planet-warming greenhouse gasses, they told reporters in New York City.
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| Singapore central bank probing several firms over possible securities act breaches | | Friday, April 22, 2016 1:14 AM | |
| | Singapore's central bank and white collar crime police have obtained documents and items from several broking firms and trading representatives as part of an investigation into possible breaches of the securities act, the central bank said on Friday. The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore police are jointly investigating possible contraventions of the Securities and Futures Act, it said in a statement. |
| Analysis - Three years after Rana Plaza disaster, has anything changed? | | Friday, April 22, 2016 12:45 AM | |
|  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Three years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 factory workers, the rights and safety of workers are in greater focus, but progress in fixing problems in the supply chain is slow, experts and activists say. There has also been legislation to ensure greater supply-chain transparency. "You have about 200 brands working together, and there's definitely more transparency, more attention to the issue of human rights in the global supply chain," Sarah Labowitz, co-director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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| Trump advisers urge Republican leaders to unify ahead of election | |  By Steve Holland and Amanda Becker HOLLYWOOD, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top advisers to Donald Trump pledged to Republican Party leaders on Thursday that the New York billionaire would adopt a more presidential demeanour after weeks of bashing the party, and urged them to unify behind the political outsider. Trump's representatives, including newly recruited senior advisers Paul Manafort and Rick Wiley, met with leaders of the Republican National Committee behind closed doors at a conference room at an oceanside resort hotel where the party is holding a three-day meeting. Over shrimp, crab legs and an open bar, the advisers expressed confidence that Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination without the party having to resort to a contested convention in Cleveland in July, according to three attendees.
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| In-flight music company willfully violated UMG copyrights - U.S. judge | | | In-flight entertainment provider Global Eagle Entertainment Inc willfully infringed the copyrights of thousands of Universal Music Group songs, a U.S. judge has ruled, potentially exposing the company to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. U.S. District Judge George Wu in Los Angeles said on Wednesday the record company, a unit of Vivendi SA , showed that Global Eagle and its subsidiary, Inflight Productions Ltd, were "repeatedly making the business decision to continue its unauthorised use" of the songs. The performers included Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and other popular artists. |
| Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers by cheap switches, no firewall - police | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network, an investigator into one of the world's biggest cyber heists said. The shortcomings made it easier for hackers to break into the Bangladesh Bank system earlier this year and attempt to siphon off nearly $1 billion using the bank's SWIFT credentials, said Mohammad Shah Alam, head of the Forensic Training Institute of the Bangladesh police's criminal investigation department. The lack of sophisticated switches, which can cost several hundred dollars or more, also means it is difficult for investigators to figure out what the hackers did and where they might have been based, he added.
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| China blames Taiwan criminals for surge in telephone scams | |  By Michael Martina and J.R. Wu BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China is battling an explosion of telecoms fraud that has cost billions of dollars in financial losses and driven some victims to suicide, according to authorities in Beijing who say criminal gangs based in rival Taiwan are behind many of the scams. Chinese state media has blamed weak punishments in the self-ruled island, and reported that Chinese-speaking fraudsters recruited in Taiwan were increasingly setting up operations in East Africa or Southeast Asia. Despite political tensions, the two sides have in recent years cooperated on investigating such scams, but Taiwan says mainland authorities sometimes do not provide enough evidence for them to do anything.
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