Mitsubishi Motors office raided over fuel economy tests
- 21 April 2016
- Business
Japanese officials have raided an office of Mitsubishi Motors following the revelation that the carmaker had falsified its fuel economy data.
The officials searched its plant in the central Japanese city of Okazaki.
Mitsubishi has admitted that employees altered data to flatter mileage rates on more than 600,000 vehicles.
A government spokesman said they were treating it as an "extremely serious case" and that it had ordered the company to submit a full report.
The authorities have set 27 April as the deadline for Mitsubishi Motors to hand over the report on the inaccurate testing.
Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said: "Based on [the findings from] the raid, and a report from the company, we would like to reveal the extent of the inaccuracies as soon as possible.
Hong Kong newspaper editor sacked in wake of Panama Papers report
Unions ‘deeply disturbed and worried’ by dismissal of Keung Kwok-yuen from Ming Pao on same day it ran a front-page report on figures linked to leaksThe veteran editor of a Hong Kong newspaper that published a report on the Panama Papers document leak has been dismissed, sparking outcry from journalists’ unions and exposing new concerns about press freedoms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
The staff association of newspaper Ming Pao expressed “extreme dissatisfaction and anger” at the sacking of Keung Kwok-yuen, the paper’s No 2 editor, on Wednesday, purportedly to save operating costs.
In a statement, the association questioned whether the dismissal was actually about “punishing staff members who have different opinions on editorial issues”.
"Why I decided to risk my life to protest in Gambia"
OBSERVERS
In the past days, hundreds of Gambians have gone out on the streets calling for the authoritarian state to undergo democratic political reforms ahead of presidential election set for December. The authoritarian regime of this tiny country located inside Senegal is well-known for cracking down on any attempt to protest, and these recent demonstrations are the largest that the Gambia has seen since 2000. One protester told us why she decided to take part in these historic demonstrations, despite the risks.
The protests began on April 14. Demonstrators want the government to enact political reforms before the presidential election, set for December. The president, Yahya Jammeh, who has been in power since a coup d’etat in 1994, is running for his fifth term in office. Opponents say that the president wants to make sure that the results of this election are predetermined. They point to many recent decisions as proof. First, a politician close to the president was recently chosen to head the electoral commission responsible for organising the elections. But that’s not all. Activists also decry the decision to increase by tenfold the fee for running a candidate – it now costs 500,000 dalasis, which is roughly equal to 10,000 euros.
Danger of militancy returning to Kashmir looms
The Kashmir Valley is in a state of ferment again with anti-India sentiment exploding in violent protests across the restive region.
It was the alleged molestation by an army man in Handwara in north Kashmir that sparked off the current unrest. Angry Kashmiris poured into the streets of Handwara, shouting anti-India slogans and pelting stones at the security forces. The situation escalated when the security forces fired indiscriminately into the crowd, killing three civilians.
Protests spread to other parts of the Valley. Two more civilians were killed and scores injured when police opened fire on protestors elsewhere. Curfew was imposed in Handwara and additional troops were rushed to the Valley to put down the protests.
Italian student's killing pulls Egyptian family into web of deaths, dead ends
It was still dark when Rasha Tarek saw her husband Salah for the last time.
Salah woke up at dawn on March 24 to go to an affluent neighborhood of the Egyptian capital for a painting job, his wife told CNN.
He was due to travel to Upper Egypt after that.
But Tarek suspected that her husband was being unfaithful to her, so she sent her brother, father and a family friend to tag along.
She spoke with her husband while he and the others were en route to their destination. But by 8 a.m. he stopped answering her calls. She tried the others but was unsuccessful in reaching them.
Is press freedom on the decline? Reporters Without Borders says yes.
Reporters Without Borders, a media watchdog, has worked to quantify media independence for 15 years. Freedom of the press is declining, they say in a report released Wednesday.
Press freedom worsened in 2015 across every region of the globe, according to a report released Wednesday by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.
The situation has deteriorated over the past few years, a trend the Paris-based nonprofit attributed to fear.
"It is unfortunately clear that many of the world's leaders are developing a form of paranoia about legitimate journalism," said Christophe Deloire, secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders, in a statement accompanying the report.
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