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| China recruits "guardian angels" to protect embattled doctors | | | China's capital Beijing is taking a novel approach to protecting doctors from growing levels of violence from angry patients: volunteer "guardian angels". The campaign will recruit students, medical workers and other patients to act as middlemen between doctors and those in their care to defuse disagreements and smooth over tensions, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. Doctors in China have come under increasing threat as the country's healthcare system struggles to cope with low doctor numbers, poor levels of training and rampant corruption inflating the price of care. This has seen a number of fatal attacks by patients on doctors in the past year. |
| China sacks another ally of former security chief in graft probe | | | A former aide to China's retired domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang was sacked on Wednesday after authorities opened a corruption probe, the latest move targeting associates of Zhou, who is also under investigation for graft. Guo Yongxiang has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and stripped of his public office for "serious law and discipline violations", the party's anti-graft watchdog said in an announcement on its website (www.ccdi.gov.cn). Guo worked together with Zhou for at least 12 years, according to both their official resumes, including in the southwestern province of Sichuan where Zhou was party boss. |
| Blast kills 23 in market on edge of Pakistani capital | |  By Syed Raza Hassan and Eissa Saeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at a vegetable market on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday, killing 23 people and injuring at least 39, police and hospital officials said. The early morning blast, as traders assembled for fruit auctions, left severed body parts and bloodstained clothes scattered throughout stalls at the market on the border between the capital Islamabad and its twin city of Rawalpindi. Police said the bomb had been hidden in a box of guava fruit. Shopkeeper Gohar Khan said that he had seen around 15 bodies.
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| Dejected rape victim takes poison at Akhilesh's rally | | | Lucknow, April 9 (IANS) A rape victim, tormented because her attackers have not been arrested days after she lodged a police complaint, consumed poison at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's Tuesday election rally venue. |
| Indonesians vote for new parliament, stage set for presidential poll | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesians voted for a new parliament on Wednesday in a poll expected to be dominated by the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P), boosting the chances of its popular candidate in a presidential election three months from now. Already, the star of the election is Jakarta governor Joko Widodo, widely known as Jokowi, whom opinion polls suggest will almost certainly be the next president of Southeast Asia's biggest economy. One early exit poll, issued by CSIS-Cyrus two hours before voting had closed and based on 6,000 voters, showed PDI-P well ahead with 19.85 percent, already close to the threshhold which would allow it to nominate its presidential candidate. My party will do very well," Jokowi said in English after voting with his wife in central Jakarta, according to local news website, Detik.com.
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| Ukraine says separatists hold hostages; activists deny charge | |  By Thomas Grove LUHANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - More than 50 people left a state security service building overnight that had been seized by pro-Russia activists in eastern Ukraine, following negotiations between protesters and officials, Ukraine's state security service (SBU) said early on Wednesday. The SBU said on Tuesday that the protesters who seized the local headquarters of state security in Luhansk on Sunday had wired it with explosives and were holding 60 people hostage, though this was denied by the protesters themselves.
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| Violence in Kanpur over procession route injures many | | | Lucknow, April 9 (IANS) Violence broke out in Kanpur town of Uttar Pradesh late Tuesday over the route of a religious procession, officials said Wednesday. The incident was triggered when the district administration did not allow some people to take out a Ram Navami procession through a certain route in Sundernagar area of Kalyanpur, 120 km from here. Angry at being denied permission, the mob started pelting stones in which many district officials, policemen, women and children were injured. |
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