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| GM recalls 2.7 million vehicles in U.S., to take charge of up to $200 million | |  General Motors Co said on Thursday it has issued five more recalls, covering about 2.7 million vehicles in the United States and as a result is expected to take a charge of up to $200 million. GM did not have figures immediately for how many vehicles outside of the United States were affected by the recalls, but said the new actions were a result of the higher focus the company has put on safety issues following the recall of 2.6 million vehicles for the faulty ignition switch. "We have redoubled our efforts to expedite and resolve current reviews in process and also have identified and analyzed recent vehicle issues which require action,\" GM's global vehicle safety chief Jeff Boyer said in a statement. In the first quarter, GM took a charge of $1.3 billion mostly related to the ignition switch recall.
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| Interview - Betting fraud, not match fixing, is main enemy: expert | |  Commenting on an International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) report that says criminals are using sports betting to launder $140 billion per year, Sport Integrity director Chris Eaton said the target has to change. \"Match fixing is a facilitating crime for sport betting, not the reverse, so the important causing crime here is betting fraud,\" said Eaton in an interview at the Sorbonne University where a Sport Integrity Forum was being held on Thursday. \"The Indian betting market is even more opaque than the Chinese market, it operates in a wholly different way than the Chinese betting market.\" Sports betting in India is confined to horse racing and gambling is legal in only a couple of states.
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| GSK executive caught off-guard by China graft charges: sources | |  By Adam Jourdan and Kazunori Takada SHANGHAI (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc executive Mark Reilly had little inkling he would be charged with leading a network of corruption in China's pharmaceutical industry, two sources with ties to the businessman and knowledge of the investigation said. The allegations against the Briton, who as GSK's China head was the firm's legal representative in the country, are the most serious charges ever laid against a foreign national for corporate corruption in China, lawyers said.
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| Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam | |  More than 20 people were killed in Vietnam and a huge foreign steel project set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and company officials said on Thursday. A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979. Local media has, however, said only person was killed, while China's state news agency Xinhua reported that at least two Chinese nationals had died and more than 100 hospitalised. The Planning and Investment Ministry blamed the clashes on \"extremists\" and warned that they could seriously affect the investment environment in Vietnam.
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| Japan PM eyes landmark change on limits to military combat abroad | |  By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a review of legal limits on the military's ability to fight overseas on Thursday, signalling a potential landmark change in a security policy long constrained by a pacifist, post-war constitution. Seeking to address concerns among Asian neighbours such as rival China as well as wary Japanese voters, the conservative Japanese leader also pledged that Japan would stick to a peaceful path and not again become a \"country that wages war\". \"Japan has walked the path of a peaceful country for nearly 70 years since the end of World War Two. Pointing to growing tensions due to China's increasing assertiveness and North Korea's nuclear threat, Abe called for a review of a decades-old interpretation of the constitution that has banned Japan from exercising its right of collective self-defence, that is deploying its military to aid friendly countries under attack.
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| Thai July election unlikely as renewed unrest grips Bangkok | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai general election is unlikely to go ahead in July after renewed unrest, officials said on Thursday, as the acting prime minister was forced by protesters to flee a meeting with electoral officers and gunmen killed three people in Bangkok. The turmoil comes as a government loyal to ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra squares off with opponents backed by the royalist establishment over who should be prime minister in the latest phase of nearly a decade of rivalry. Anti-government protesters broke into the grounds of an air force compound where acting Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan was meeting the Election Commission to fix a date for new polls, which had been tentatively set for July 20. Commission member Somchai Srisutthiyakorn later told Reuters that date now looked improbable.
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| Text of Sisi interview with Reuters | |  The challenges present in Egypt are so many. Programmes available in Western countries, the situations are much more stable in all fields compared to the reality in Egypt. I believe that within two years of serious, continuous work we can achieve the type of improvement Egyptians are looking for. Q: Is there a leader in the past in Egypt or anywhere around the world who you are trying to model yourself after?
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| Egypt's Sisi asks for U.S. help in fighting terrorism | |  By STEPHEN ADLER RICHARD MABLY CAIRO (Reuters) - Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted an elected Islamist president and is set to become Egypt's next head of state, called on the United States to help fight jihadi terrorism to avoid the creation of new Afghanistans in the Middle East. In his first interview with an international news organisation in the run-up to the May 26-27 vote, Sisi called for the resumption of U.S. military aid, worth $1.3 billion a year, which was partially frozen after a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Asked what message he has for U.S. President Barack Obama, Sisi said: \"We are fighting a war against terrorism.\" \"The Egyptian army is undertaking major operations in the Sinai so it is not transformed into a base for terrorism that will threaten its neighbours and make Egypt unstable. If Egypt is unstable then the entire region is unstable," said a quietly spoken Sisi, wearing a dark civilian suit.
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| Crime gangs launder $140 billion through sports betting - report | | | Criminals are using betting on sports events to launder $140 billion each year, a report said on Thursday, exposing a lack of effective regulation that allows match-fixing to spread. \"The rapid evolution of the global sports betting market has seen an increased risk of infiltration by organised crime and money laundering,\" said Chris Eaton of the Qatar-based International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS). The report, compiled by the ICSS think-tank and the Sorbonne university in Paris, said that 80 percent of global sports betting was being carried out on illegal markets, placing it beyond the reach of regulators and investigators. |
| Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row | | | By Fiona Ortiz REUTERS - Non-fiction writer Rene Denfeld draws on her work as a death penalty investigator in her first novel, \"The Enchanted\", the story of a prisoner who invents a horrible, liberating beauty deep underground. As a licensed investigator since 2008 Denfeld has interviewed prisoners, on and off death row, and traveled to \"the worst parts of the country and the worst streets and homes\" to find friends, relatives and teachers who might help her clients avoid or overturn a death sentence. \"The Enchanted\" comes after Denfeld's non-fiction books including \"The New Victorians\", about victimism in the women's movement, and female aggression and violence in \"Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall\". I had written non-fiction books and started doing this work as an investigator. |
| More than 20 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam | |  More than 20 people were killed in Vietnam and a huge foreign steel project set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and company officials said on Thursday. A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,\" the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone. Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's biggest investor in Vietnam, said its upcoming steel plant in Ha Tinh was set on fire after fighting between its Vietnamese and Chinese workers.
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| Jail, lawsuits cast shadow over Myanmar media freedom | |  By Paul Mooney YANGON (Reuters) - Two years after Myanmar scrapped censorship in one of its boldest reforms, its journalists are again living in fear of jail and are convinced a state-sponsored crackdown is under way to limit press freedom. \"The hardliners in the government think (media freedom) has now gone too far,\" says Thiha Saw, chief editor of the English-language Myanma Freedom. The arrests evoke memories of the country's oppressive past, with detention of members of the media a hallmark of the previous military government, said London-based Amnesty International in a recent statement. Toe Zaw Latt, bureau chief for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), has felt the brunt of the crackdown.
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