China's first constitutional change since 2004 may give Xi Jinping even more power
Updated 0638 GMT (1438 HKT) December 28, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping had a good 2017, but 2018 may be looking even better.
The ruling Communist Party (CCP) will discuss changing the country's constitution for the first time since 2004 next month, with analysts predicting Xi will further cement his grip on power.
The change could clear the way for the creation of a National Supervision Commission (NSC), a country-wide anti-corruption task force with sweeping new powers, though some havespeculated there could also be a move to abolish term-limits on the Presidency, allowing Xi to serve on past 2022.
Best of the Best: the South Korean school for hackers hitting back against the North
A series of attacks on government agencies, TV and banking networks convinced Seoul to develop an elite cadre of experts to defend the country
At the fortified border between South and North Korea, students on a computer hacking course are instructed to peer northwards across a strip of empty land toward the enemy state.
“Our country is divided and we are at war, but you can’t see that division in cyberspace,” said Kim Jin-seok. “So we take them to see it in person.”
Kim manages a program called Best of the Best, the goal of which is to train the next generation of so-called white-hat hackers, netizens with elite cybersecurity skills who are able and willing to defend South Korea against malicious hacking attacks, many of which are believed to come from North Korea.
Second World War veteran who endured notorious Bataan death march dies, aged 100
Ramon Regalado was celebrated for his efforts battling the Japanese
Jeremy B White San Francisco
A Filipino-American man who survived one of the Second World War's most brutal episodes and helped America battle the Japanese has died at the age of 100.
Ramon Regalado helped fight to rebuff a Japanese invasion while serving with the Philippine Scouts under the US Army. When that effort failed, he was among the tens of thousands of prisoners who endured a more than 60-mile trek known as the Bataan death march.
After his capture, Mr Regalado escaped and joined a resistance movement battling Japanese troops, according to accounts of his service.
UNICEF: 2017 a 'nightmare year' for children caught in war zones
According to UNICEF, 2017 was one of the worst years for children caught in conflicts and besieged areas. From being deployed as human shields to acting as suicide bombers, children have become targets on a huge scale.
Warring parties in 2017 had a blatant disregarded for international law when it came to the protection of children, an official from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
A UNICEF report found that in conflict-ridden regions across the world, high numbers of children had been killed, used as human shields and recruited to fight.
THE SKIFFS ARRIVED a few hours after sundown on September 18, a dark and moonless night in the Peruvian Amazon. They landed at several points along the broad Corrientes River, which flows south over the country’s densely forested border with Ecuador. Hundreds of indigenous Achuar men, women, and children, many carrying ceremonial spears, organized into units by clan and village. They then followed their apus, or chiefs, toward seven targets: the area’s lone paved road, a power plant, and five facilities for the pumping and processing of petroleum.
The sites were occupied, their night staff escorted peacefully outside. By morning, the Achuar of the Corrientes controlled the local infrastructure of Lot 192, the country’s largest and most notorious oil block.
Call to check bullet train for undercarriage cracks went unheeded
Today 06:20 am JST
A shinkansen bullet train that was eventually found to have large cracks in its undercarriage continued running for hours after a request for a safety check went unheeded, the train's operator West Japan Railway Co said Wednesday.
The bullet train ran for more than three hours across 800 kilometers until the issue was investigated, with a 16 centimeter crack and two 14 cm fissures found that the company said could have derailed the high-speed train.
JR West President Tatsuo Kijima admitted at a press conference in Osaka on Wednesday that there had been "insufficient risk management" and the train should have been stopped sooner.
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