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| China protests to Indonesia over seizure of fishing vessel | | | JAKARTA/BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it had lodged a "stern" protest with Indonesia after the Southeast Asian country's navy seized a Chinese vessel it suspected of fishing illegally in its waters. The dispute comes amid heightened tension over China's reclamation activities in the South China Sea and its claims on swathes of the key waterway, where several Southeast Asian nations have overlapping claims. The Indonesian military said it detained the vessel, Gui Bei Yu, last Friday, after it entered Indonesia's exclusive economic zone in the resource-rich Natuna Sea off the northwest coast of the island of Borneo. |
| Chinese worker wounded in Pakistani bomb attack | | | A Chinese worker and his driver were wounded in Pakistan on Monday in a bomb attack claimed by ethnic nationalists opposed to plans for extensive Chinese investment, police said. The attack is likely to raise concern about a planned China Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), involving $46 billion in Chinese investment in roads, power plants, railway lines and a new port in Pakistan. Pakistan, battling Islamist militants as well as separatist guerrillas in parts of the country, has promised to ensure security for the project. |
| Myanmar says record drug seizure has street value of $36 million | | | By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar seized roughly 21 million methamphetamine pills with a street value of around U.S.$35.5 million near the border with China, state-owned media said on Monday, the country's second largest haul of the contraband. Although better known for its opium production, Myanmar, a country with restive and porous borders, is a major producer and exporting hub of low-purity pills made primarily of caffeine and methamphetamine. The pills, which deliver a cheap high, are taken both by recreational users and labourers toiling for long hours who need to stay awake. |
| Erdogan: No Muslim family should engage in birth control | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - No Muslim family should engage in birth control or family planning, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, calling again on pious Muslims to have more children. "We will multiply our descendants. They talk about population planning, birth control. No Muslim family can have such an approach," he said in a speech in Istanbul broadcast live on television. "Nobody can interfere in God's work. The first duty here belongs to mothers," he said. ...
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| Bahrain lengthens Shi'ite leader's jail term to 9 years -opposition | | | A Bahraini appeals court on Monday lengthened the prison term imposed on Sheikh Ali Salman, leader of the main Shi'ite Muslim opposition movement, to nine years from four, his Wefaq group said. Bahrain's public prosecutor said the stiffer sentence related to "crimes of promoting change to the political system by force", according to the Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf Arab monarchy's state news agency BNA. Al-Wefaq denounced the decision against Salman, a Shi'ite cleric, as "provocative" and said it undermined any chance of resolving a political crisis in Bahrain tinged with sectarianism and bitter rivalries among regional powers. |
| China's anti-graft agency investigates Jiangsu province deputy governor | | | A deputy governor of the wealthy eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu is being investigated for suspected graft, the country's main corruption-fighting body said on Monday. Li Yunfeng is suspected of "serious discipline breaches", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a brief statement, using the usual euphemism for graft. Li, 59, has spent almost his entire working career in Jiangsu and assumed his current job in 2011, according to his official biography. |
| Mexico's Pulido, striker for Olympiakos, rescued after kidnap | |  Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido has been rescued a day after the striker for the Greek soccer team Olympiakos was kidnapped in the restive northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the state government said early on Monday. "The most important thing is that is he is here with us," Tamaulipas Governor Egidio Torre Cantu told reporters in footage broadcast on local television, flanked by Pulido. The Tamaulipas government said on its Twitter page that Pulido was undergoing a medical examination.
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| S.Korean cram school tutors deny wrongdoing in SAT leak case | | | By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Tutors at South Korean test preparation schools denied criminal wrongdoing during a court hearing on Monday involving leaked information that led to the cancellation of the U.S. SAT college entrance exam in South Korea in 2013. Nine of 22 defendants, including tutors and owners of private "test-prep" schools, appeared in a Seoul court for their first hearing, charged with illegally obtaining SAT college entrance exam test papers and offering them to pupils. The trial began after the test's administrator, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), provided documents to the court in March following Reuters inquiries to the company about what South Korean authorities said was a lack of cooperation. |
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