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| Turkey's nationalists sees 'significant progress' on constitution bill, leader says | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's nationalist opposition has made "significant progress" in talks with the ruling AK Party on its planned constitutional reform bill, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Devlet Bahceli also said he believed the bill - which would pave the way for the executive presidency long sought by President Tayyip Erdogan - could be sent to the constitutional commission once "one or two" issues are overcome. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Daren Butler) |
| South Korea's Park asks parliament to decide how she can quit, opposition cries foul | |  By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to decide how and when she can give up power over an influence-peddling scandal, taking the country's political crisis deeper into uncharted terrain. The main opposition Democratic Party rejected Park's offer, calling it a ploy to escape being impeached, and said it would continue efforts to bring an impeachment motion in parliament, which they have sought to do as soon as Friday. No South Korean president has failed to complete a single five-year term since the current democratic system was implemented in 1987.
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| Trump looks to Obamacare critic, Indiana expert to overhaul health care | |  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump will announce on Tuesday he has chosen a vociferous Obamacare critic and an Indiana policy expert to help him overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, a transition official told Reuters. Trump is set to name Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, as his Health and Human Services secretary, and consultant Seema Verma to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a powerful agency that oversees government health programs and insurance standards. The 2010 law triggered a long and bitter political battle between the Obama White House and Republicans in the U.S. Congress who said it created unwarranted government intervention in personal healthcare and private industry.
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| Turkey's ruling party set to submit constitution bill within two weeks | | | Turkey's ruling AK Party will submit to parliament within two weeks a draft constitution reform law that will expand presidential powers, the head of the assembly's constitutional commission said on Monday. Dogan news agency cited the AKP's Mustafa Sentop as saying Turkey's constitution and parliamentary system needed to be changed for the sake of Turkey's progress. |
| South Africa's Zuma survives no-confidence motion by own party - newspaper | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma has survived a motion of no confidence by his own party, Beeld, an Afrikaans-language daily reported on Tuesday without naming its sources. No formal vote took place at the three-day long conference of the ANC's national executive committee meeting in Pretoria that ended late on Monday, the paper said. The ANC will hold a media briefing at 1200 GMT on Tuesday. (Reporting by TJ Strydom; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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| Thailand's parliament to invite crown prince to become new king | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Parliament will invite Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to become the new king following the death of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej last month, the president of the legislative body said on Tuesday. Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, president of the National Legislative Assembly, said in a televised session the prince would be invited to ascend the throne after the cabinet earlier on Tuesday formally asked parliament to begin the process of installing a new monarch. Members of the assembly stood up during a short parliamentary session and shouted: "Long live the king!" The prince will have to accept parliament's invitation in order for him to be proclaimed king, according to established procedure.
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| Insight: Fewer North Korean workers come to China as border trade tightens | |  By Sue-Lin Wong DANDONG, China (Reuters) - A labour agent sat in his bus on a recent frigid morning, waiting to cross the "Friendship Bridge" at China's main border post with North Korea. "I used to bring at least 40-50 North Korean factory workers and waiters across at least once a month but it's less frequent now," said Liu, the labour agent, who did not want to give his full name. "I don't think China wants them to come and work here anymore." Their numbers have, indeed, been dropping of late, said Lu Chao, Director of the Border Study Institute at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, a Chinese government think-tank.
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