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| Analysis - Three years after Rana Plaza disaster, has anything changed? | | Friday, April 22, 2016 12:17 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. |
| VW forges U.S. deal arising from diesel emissions scandal | |  By Alexandria Sage and David Shepardson SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG, driving to move beyond a scandal that has disrupted its global business and sullied its reputation, announced a sweeping U.S. deal on Thursday to buy back or potentially fix about a half million polluting diesel cars and set up environmental and consumer compensation funds. The settlement, which sources and analysts said could cost VW at least $10 billion, is not likely to end the Dieselgate controversy that began last September when the world's No. 2 automaker admitted using sophisticated secret software in its cars to cheat exhaust emissions tests. Despite the potentially big price tag, Volkswagen shares rose 6 percent on Thursday after rising nearly 7 percent on Wednesday on news of the agreement, which must be finalised by June 21.
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| Mapuche group claims responsibility for Chile arson attacks | | | A resistance group formed by the indigenous Mapuche people claimed responsibility on Thursday for arson attacks in southern Chile that have once again cast the country's long-simmering Mapuche conflict into public view. The group, calling itself 'Weichan Auka Mapu' in the Mapudungun tongue, which means 'Fight of the Rebel Territory,' said it had burned five churches since March 1. The Weichan Auka Mapu group has said it is attempting to regain land lost during Chile's nineteenth century expansion southward into Mapuche-held territory. |
| Guantanamo shrinking but Obama goal of closing prison still elusive | |  By Matt Spetalnick GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Observed from behind a one-way mirror and heavy chain-link fence, a handful of bearded detainees in baggy t-shirts mill around inside a communal cellblock at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, vastly outnumbered by U.S. troops guarding them. This is the shrinking world of America's notorious offshore prison, a scene that underscores how U.S. President Barack Obama is running out of time - and options - to meet his pledge to close the compound before he leaves office in January. Obama has whittled down the number of prisoners to 80, the lowest since shortly after his predecessor George W. Bush opened the facility to hold terrorism suspects rounded up overseas following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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| European drivers bristle as VW reaches U.S. diesel deal | |  By Edward Taylor and Kirstin Ridley FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - European owners of Volkswagen cars read the details of a deal to compensate U.S. drivers for the diesel emissions scandal with frustration as their wait for settlement enters its eighth month. European lawyers say their clients deserve a similar offer to the one that was announced by a U.S. judge on Thursday and includes buybacks or possible fixes at an estimated cost to VW of more than $10 billion. VW has said about 11 million cars worldwide were fitted with software to cheat diesel emissions tests that are designed to limit car fumes blamed for respiratory diseases and global pollution.
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| Legal hurdles remain for Volkswagen in U.S. clean-diesel cases | |  By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG faces further legal fights on several fronts in the United States despite its announcement on Thursday it reached a preliminary deal to resolve consumers' and regulators' claims over vehicles outfitted with software to cheat on diesel-emissions tests. The U.S. Department of Justice said its criminal investigation into the conduct of Volkswagen remained ongoing, and a multi-state probe into consumer and environmental violations will continue, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office is among those leading the investigation. It also remains unclear whether the consumers behind the 600 class actions filed over the scandal will ultimately accept Volkswagen's offer, or choose to keep litigating.
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| Journalists will not share Panama Papers with U.S. Justice Department | |  By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The media group that coordinated the Panama Papers investigation into offshore companies said on Thursday it would not participate in a criminal probe by the U.S. Department of Justice. Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, wrote to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists seeking additional information from the group to aid his investigation into tax avoidance claims, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. "ICIJ, and its parent organisation the Center for Public Integrity, are media organizations shielded by the First Amendment and other legal protections from becoming an arm of law enforcement," said Gerard Ryle, director of the consortium, in a press release on the group's website.
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