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| China to investigate anti-Japan TV drama decried as vulgar | | | China's media watchdog will investigate an anti-Japan television serial that viewers have criticised as vulgar for a scene showing a woman making use of a grenade concealed in her crotch to kill Japanese soldiers, state media said on Thursday. Ties between the neighbours have been shadowed for years by what Beijing calls Japan's refusal to admit to wartime atrocities by its soldiers in China between 1937 and 1945. The 58-episode show featuring the offending scene is called "Fight the Devils Together", and started airing on May 7, but broadcasts have since halted, state news agency Xinhua said. |
| Activists alarmed about Indian laws curbing free speech amid charity crackdown | |  By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human rights activists have called on India to reform or repeal laws that threaten free expression in the world's largest democracy and muzzle charities such as environmental group Greenpeace. Some laws are not only silencing marginal voices but are also fuelling graft, a report by PEN International, a London-based group of writers promoting freedom of speech, and the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto said.
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| Greenpeace says Chinese vessels illegally fishing off Africa, Beijing disagrees | | | Chinese fishing boats have been illegally fishing off West Africa, Greenpeace said on Wednesday, adding that Chinese companies expanded operations in Africa from 13 vessels in 1985 to 462 vessels in 2013, but the government said they are within the law. One fifth of China's distant water fishing fleet now operated in Africa, Greenpeace said in a report, and was dominated by bottom trawlers, "one of the most destructive fishing gears in the modern fishing industry." Over a 10-year period, 183 illegal fishing cases involving 118 Chinese vessels were reported in six West African countries - Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone. |
| China passive, Washington paranoid in espionage case - state media | | | Beijing must respond in the face of U.S. espionage charges against six Chinese citizens, Chinese state media said on Thursday, calling Washington paranoid for accusing the group of stealing technology often used in military systems. The U.S. Justice Department announced the charges on Tuesday, the third time in as many years that U.S. authorities have made accusations of economic espionage conducted on behalf of China, an issue Washington has termed a top national security concern. China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it was checking the details of the case and that it was seriously concerned about the charges, a response that appeared to fall short for the Global Times, a nationalist tabloid run by the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper. |
| South Korea's Park names new PM after scandal strikes again | | | South Korean President Park Geun-hye nominated her justice minister as prime minister after the incumbent stood down amid scandal - her sixth choice for the job since taking office in 2013. Three of her nominees have stepped down before confirmation amid allegations of personal improprieties and two served, although the second also resigned amid scandal. Lee Wan-koo stepped down as premier in April amid allegations he accepted illegal campaign funds from a businessman who committed suicide after telling a newspaper that he had given money to prominent politicians. |
| Model Janice Dickinson sues comedian Bill Cosby for defamation | |  By Daina Beth Solomon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Model and television personality Janice Dickinson sued Bill Cosby for defamation on Wednesday, alleging the comedian falsely called her a liar after she publicly claimed that he sexually assaulted her 35 years ago. Dickinson is one of the most well known of the more than 40 women who have accused Cosby of sexual assault, and at least the second to file a defamation suit. In the complaint filed by attorney Lisa Bloom in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Dickinson alleges that Cosby, 77, intentionally inflicted "emotional distress" and destroyed her professional reputation.
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| About 120 guns found at scene of deadly Texas gang fight | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - About 120 guns and 160 knives were recovered from the scene of a deadly Sunday battle between rival motorcycle gangs in the Texas city of Waco that left nine people dead, police said on Wednesday as they sharply dropped their tally of weapons found. Gang members hid weapons in sacks of flour and bags of chips at the Twin Peaks restaurant, where they attacked each other in a fight that was likely set off by a smouldering turf battle, Waco Police said. Waco Police Sergeant Patrick Swanton told cable channel CNN: "These were vicious gang members that were in our city Sunday." The two main adversaries were motorcycle gangs the Bandidos, seen as the long-standing dominant gang in Texas and called a criminal organisation by the U.S. Justice Department, and the Cossacks, which have been challenging them for power in the state, according to experts on the gangs.
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