Mitsubishi Motors admits cheating fuel tests since 1991
- 26 April 2016
- Business
Mitsubishi Motors has admitted using improper fuel tests since 1991.
The admission follows last week's revelation that it had falsified fuel economy data for more than 600,000 vehicles sold in Japan.
Tetsuro Aikawa, its president, said an investigation was continuing, suggesting that more irregularities might be found.
So much remained unknown that it was uncertain how the company would react, he said.
It was not clear how many cars were affected.
Shares fell a further 10% in Tokyo on Tuesday, bringing the slide since the scandal erupted to almost 50%.
Mr Aikawa said he did not know why employees resorted to rigging fuel economy tests to make mileage figures seem better.
Pakistan: mother of paraplegic death row inmate Abdul Basit pleads for pardon
Stay of execution expires for Basit, who uses a wheelchair after contracting meningitis in prison
The mother of a paraplegic inmate on death row in Pakistan has urged the country’s president to pardon her son.
Nusrat Perveen said that president Mamnoon Hussain had ordered authorities to halt the execution of her son Abdul Basit in January, hours before he was to be hanged; that stay of execution order has now expired.
After meeting Basit at a prison in the city of Faisalabad, Perveen said that her son had lost a lot of weight and looked skeletal.
“I wept and cried on seeing him in fragile health,” she said. “My son is like a dead man already, do they want to hang a dead man?”
French TV channel criticised for showing video of Paris attacks suicide bomber blowing himself up
The footage, from a security camera inside the cafe, was broadcast during a special edition of the programme Zone Interdite
The French television channel M6 has been criticised for broadcasting video footage from last November's terrorist attacks in Paris showing a suicide bomber blowing himself up in a busy cafe.
Thirty-one-year-old Ibrahim Abdeslam killed himself in the Comptoir Voltaire cafe on 13 November, at the same as other attackers began the mass shooting in the nearby Bataclan theatre. Abdeslam's bomb injured 20 people, one seriously.
The footage, from a security camera inside the cafe, was broadcast during a special edition of the programme Zone Interdite on Sunday evening covering the attacks. It provoked shock among the two-million-strong audience, with some viewers tweeting that they thought the show went too far.
How to rebuild a Brazilian coastline with the mud that destroyed it
Several months after a mudslide devastated Brazil’s eastern coast in November 2015, Brazilians are discovering that the same mud can be used to rebuild. Since January, they’ve gathered tons of mud to produce bricks and reconstruct homes that were washed away.
The project is called ‘Tijolos de la Mariana’ – or ‘the bricks of Mariana’ – and is managed by residents from the town of the same name, in eastern Brazil. Mariana saw scenes of utter devastation when it was hit by a mudslide on November 5 last year. That day, two dams burst at the site of an iron ore mine, causing a giant avalanche of mud and waste from a mining operation to wash over the town. Iron, aluminium and manganese then spilled into the ‘Rio Doce’ river. The disaster is considered to be Brazil’s worst ever ecological catastrophe.
Ethiopia ethnic violence kills 14, aid groups targeted
Clashes between different ethnic groups in west Ethiopia have left 14 dead, while UN and MSF offices were targeted by angry protesters, local security service sources said.
The violence was sparked after an NGO car with an Ethiopian driver ran over and killed two children from the Nuer ethnic group in a camp for South Sudanese refugees on Friday, the sources told AFP.
In response, a group of refugees attacked Ethiopians living around the camp, killing 10 men and women.
Ethopians from the Anuak ethnic group - traditional rivals of the Nuer - then marched on the city of Gambela, killing four Nuer Ethiopians in separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday.
"People are angry, we want revenge. If the police hadn't got involved, plenty of Nuer would have been killed," Addis Alemayu of the Anuak group said.
Saudi Arabia agrees on plan to cut reliance on oil
Vision 2030 envisages forming public investment fund, boosting affordable housing and giving expats long-term residence.
Business & Economy, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Oil Price
Saudi Arabia's cabinet has agreed on a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years.
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince, said on Monday that the country was building up the its Public Investment Fund to become a major player in global markets.
He said Saudi Arabia was restructuring its housing ministry to increase the supply of affordable housing, and creating a "green card" system within five years to give expatriates long-term residence.
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