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| China's Xi says China's anti-corruption battle must go deeper - Xinhua | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China's president said on Friday a battle against corruption "must go deeper", the official Xinhua news agency reported. President Xi Jinping also called on the Communist Party to be governed "systematically, creatively and efficiently", Xinhua said. (Reporting by Sue-Lin Wong; Editing by Robert Birsel) |
| South Korea court convicts ex-Reckitt Benckiser unit chief in sterilizer case | | | A South Korean court convicted on Friday a former head of the local unit of British consumer goods maker Reckitt Benckiser over the sale of humidifier sterilizers linked to deadly lung injuries, sentencing him to seven years in prison, Yonhap news agency reported. The Seoul Central District Court found the former executive, Shin Hyun-woo, guilty of criminal negligence for failing to inspect the safety of the product and allowing its sale, Yonhap said. The South Korean government said in 2015 that 92 people were believed to have died from causes related to humidifier sterilizer products, not all of them made by the Reckitt Benckiser unit. |
| Supreme Court bars Aircel from changing airwave ownership, potentially delaying merger | |  NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday barred Aircel Ltd from transferring the ownership of its airwaves while a corruption case centred on a past deal involving the mobile phone carrier was ongoing, potentially delaying an agreed merger. The court, led by Chief Justice J. S. Khehar, also said it would ask the government to cancel Aircel's airwave permits if two executives at Malaysian parent Maxis Bhd did not appear at a trial court within two weeks. The action comes as Aircel and the wireless network division of Reliance Communications Ltd work towards merging, with the resulting company shared equally between Reliance, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, and Maxis, controlled by tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan.
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| Turkey detains 18 people over Izmir attack, sees PKK responsible - minister | | | IZMIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 18 people in connection with Thursday's gun and bomb attack which killed two people in the city of Izmir and Ankara has no doubt Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were responsible, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Friday. The car bombing and gunfire outside the main courthouse in Turkey's third largest city, located on its western Aegean coast, highlighted the country's deteriorating security after a gunman killed 39 people in a New Year's Day mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub. ... |
| South Korean Volkswagen exec gets jail term in emissions scandal fallout | |  A South Korean court on Friday sentenced an executive of Volkswagen's local unit to one year and six months in prison for fabricating documents on emissions and noise-level tests to achieve certification for vehicles for import. This is the latest fallout from Volkswagen's emissions-test cheating scandal that last year resulted in a sales suspension in South Korea, a once fast-growing market for the German automaker. "Volkswagen has by itself undermined its credibility as a global brand as a result of this crime which has caused grave social and economic damages ...," the Seoul Central District Court said in a statement, referring to the suspension.
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| Clock running down on Pakistani military courts trying civilians on terror charges | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani law allowing secret military courts to try civilians on terrorism charges is set to expire on Saturday, but the government has been silent on its renewal, following criticism from lawyers that it led to abuse and curtailed human rights. At least 27 convicts filed appeals with civilian courts, alleging coercion of confessions and denial of access to lawyers and evidence, Reuters research and media reports show.
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| Mumbai hawker law's residency requirement targets migrants, vendors say | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mumbai has passed a law requiring street hawkers to have lived in the state for 15 years before they can apply for a licence, in a move vendors say unfairly targets poor migrants. Workers' organisations say many hawkers, who have migrated from rural areas to Mumbai to seek work and escape poverty, cannot afford property in Mumbai, India's financial and commercial capital. This is the state's way of pushing out these migrant workers without explicitly asking them to leave," said Salma Sheikh of the Azad Hawkers' Union.
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| Bangladesh police kill prime suspect in July cafe attack | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi police shot dead two Islamist militants on Friday in a gunfight in Dhaka, including a prime suspect in the killing of 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, in a cafe in the capital last year. Nurul Islam Marjan, 30, a commander of a splinter group of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), was killed along with another suspected militant, Saddam Hossain, 35, the chief of Dhaka's counter-terrorism police, Monirul Islam, said.
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| U.S. envoys appointed by Obama asked to quit by Inauguration Day | |  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has issued a blanket mandate requiring politically appointed ambassadors installed by President Barack Obama to leave their posts by Inauguration Day, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand said on Friday. "I will be departing on January 20th," Ambassador Mark Gilbert said in a Twitter message to Reuters. The mandate was issued "without exceptions" through an order sent in a State Department cable on December 23, Gilbert said.
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| Japan to recall envoy from South Korea over 'comfort women' statue | |  By Kaori Kaneko and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said on Friday it was temporarily recalling its ambassador to South Korea over a statue commemorating Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two which it said violated an agreement to resolve the issue. The two nations agreed in 2015 that the issue of "comfort women", which has long plagued ties between the two Asian neighbours, would be "finally and irreversibly resolved" if all conditions of the accord - which included a Japanese apology and a fund to help the victims - were met. Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said the statue was "extremely regrettable" and that Japan was temporarily recalling its ambassador.
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| U.S. sues D-Link, alleges lax security in routers, cameras | |  By Diane Bartz and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against D-Link Corp on Thursday, accusing the Taiwan-based manufacturer of failing to take reasonable steps to protect its routers and internet-linked security cameras from hackers. The FTC brought the charges as part of a broader effort to improve security of internet-connected devices, including routers, webcams, digital video recorders and other widely used consumer electronics devices. Concerns about security of internet-connected devices, which are sometimes referred to collectively as the internet of things, or IoT, have surged since last year when hackers used armies of compromised routers, webcams and other electronic devices to launch a series of increasingly powerful attacks that severed access to some of the world's biggest websites.
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