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| India's cash crunch making some in Modi's party anxious | |  By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Cash shortages weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to abolish large currency notes are making allies and members of his ruling party anxious, with some distancing themselves from the move ahead of a series of state elections. Modi removed 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, worth around $7.50 and $15 respectively, on Nov. 8, billing it as an attempt to root out corruption, end terror financing and move the country into the age of digital payments. Nearly 90 percent of transactions in India used to be in cash.
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| Indians line up at banks to deposit savings or see them disappear | |  Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month said 500 and 1,000 bank notes - worth a combined $256 billion and 86 percent of cash in circulation - would cease to be legal tender after Dec. 30, disrupting the lives of hundreds of millions. "I'm here to deposit a few old notes before the deadline expires," said Rakesh Kumar, queuing outside a bank in New Delhi. "But I expect the government and RBI (central bank) to quickly replenish banks and ATMs with new notes so that we can withdraw without any trouble." Only 35-40 percent of ATM machines were currently dispensing cash, according to Ramaswamy Venkatachalam, managing director, India and South Asia, Fidelity Information Services, a banking technology provider.
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| Myanmar says will take back 2,415 citizens from Bangladesh | |  By Shwe Yee Saw Myint YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar said on Friday it will take back 2,415 citizens from Bangladesh, only a tiny fraction of the 300,000 people who Bangladesh says are Myanmar citizens taking refuge there and should go home. Tension has been rising between the neighbours over Myanmar's treatment of ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims, about 50,000 of whom Bangladesh says have fled there since the Myanmar army launched a crackdown on its side of their border in October. Myanmar has for decades said Rohingyas are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and it has declined to grant them citizenship.
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| USAID ends funding for troubled Ukraine customs reform | | | By Matthias Williams and Pavel Polityuk ODESSA, Ukraine (Reuters) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has ended funding for a flagship customs reform project in Ukraine's Odessa region, as the government's ambitious plans to tackle bribe-taking at its Black Sea ports stalled. USAID and other institutions have supported Kiev's Western-backed government, which took power after the 2014 Maidan street protests, to fight endemic corruption and put an economy battered by an ongoing separatist war back on its feet. Yulia Marushevska, a young Maidan activist with no prior civil service experience, was appointed to head Odessa customs in 2015. |
| Women students protest dress rules, curfews as Mumbai college bans ripped jeans | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of Mumbai's best known colleges has banned female students from wearing ripped jeans, sparking the latest row against dress codes and curfews imposed on women that students say are discriminatory and sexist. St. Xavier's College, which had previously forbidden female students from wearing shorts, sleeveless tops and short dresses, this month added ripped jeans to its list of banned clothing. The Jesuit institution became the latest to incur the wrath of female students across the country who have been protesting rules that they say are discriminatory and distressing. |
| Plans for stronger Turkish presidency pass first hurdle | |  By Gulsen Solaker ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will be able to appoint and dismiss government ministers, take back the leadership of the ruling party, and govern until 2029 under plans approved by a parliamentary commission on Friday. The approval by the constitutional commission after a 17-hour overnight session means the plans for an executive presidential system, long sought by Erdogan and the ruling AK Party he founded, have passed their first hurdle. Erdogan and his supporters argue that Turkey, a sometimes turbulent country of 79 million people, needs the strong leadership of an executive presidency to prevent a return to the fragile coalition governments of the past.
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| Movie-mad Indians challenged to rewrite sexist Bollywood songs | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A women's rights organisation is asking movie-mad Indians to rewrite sexist Bollywood songs, the latest attempt in drawing attention to gender stereotyping and misogyny portrayed by the country's influential film industry. Akshara Centre's 'Gaana (Song) Rewrite' competition, launched earlier this month, invites people to change the lyrics to any Bollywood film song they find sexist. The group said it may then engage with the film industry to push for change.
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| China court sentences 23 people to jail for smuggling fuel | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - An court in eastern China has sentenced 23 people to jail of up to 15 years for smuggling refined fuel, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. They were found to have smuggled more than 35,000 tonnes of refined oil since 2013, and authorities confiscated two oil tankers, Xinhua citied the customs administration of Nanjing city as saying. China has stepped up efforts to crack down on fuel smuggling, which has increased after authorities raised consumption taxes on oil products in 2014, creating gaps between prices abroad and at home. ... |
| INSIGHT - How ties to an 'equestrian princess' landed Samsung at center of a scandal | |  By Ju-min Park and Miyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co's sponsorship of the equestrian-athlete daughter of a long-time friend of President Park Geun-hye has helped to land South Korea's top company in the center of the country's influence-peddling scandal. Samsung agreed last year to pay $18 million to Core Sports International GmbH, a consulting firm controlled by Park's friend Choi Soon-sil, who is in jail and faces charges of abuse of power and fraud in a criminal trial that began this month. A South Korean court has also issued an arrest warrant for Choi's Germany-based horse-riding daughter, 20-year-old Chung Yoo-ra – who has been the main beneficiary of the sponsorship – for alleged criminal interference related to her academic record, and other unspecified charges.
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| Sorin Grindeanu named as Romania's prime minister designate | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President named Sorin Grindeanu from the ruling leftist Social Democrat Party (PSD) as prime minister designate on Friday, his office said. Grindeanu, a 43-year-old mathematician and former deputy mayor of the western city of Timisoara, is expected to win parliament's backing as early as next week. His party won a Dec. 11 election by a wide margin and together with coalition partner ALDE, has 250 of the 465 seats in the two houses of parliament. (Reporting by Radu Marinas; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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| China's Xinjiang sets up legal team to prosecute terror cases | |  Prosecutors in China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang have set up a special team to handle terror-related cases, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent years in resource-rich Xinjiang, on the borders of central Asia, in violence between the Muslim Uighur people who call the region home and ethnic majority Han Chinese. China denies any repression in Xinjiang.
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