World News by Wild Rose

Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for Ohio governor, faced a firestorm of criticism Wednesday over an ad featuring Democratic rival Amy Acton’s estranged mother, whose husband was charged with raping Acton when she was a child. Acton has not spoken with her mother, Donna Arthur, since her childhood, when she accused her then-stepfather of sexually abusing her for years. In the ad, Arthur says her daughter has “lied her entire life”. “Don’t let her become your governor. If you think...

The former father-in-law of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung received a cash rebate of nearly HK$7 million (US$891,900) after buying a HK$72 million flat using the model’s money, a court has heard. Property agent Marco Wong Tak-sing told the High Court on Wednesday that Kwong Kau had requested a share of the agency’s profit from the 2019 sale of the luxury flat at the Kadooria development in Ho Man Tin. The court previously heard that Choi issued two cheques and bought two cashier’s...

Yokohama, Oct. 18 (Jiji Press)--Lawyer Atsumi Harasawa is certain to win her first term as Yokohama mayor, defeating six rivals, including scandal-hit former Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka, in Sunday's election. The mayoral election in the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, which neighbors Tokyo, was held following Yamanaka's resignation in September over a workplace harassment scandal. At her cam...

Tokyo, Oct. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is expected to appoint Arata Takebe of her ruling Liberal Democratic Party as Japan's new agriculture minister to replace embattled Kazuo Yana, informed sources said Thursday. Yana resigned Wednesday following a series of scandals, including suspected election law violations. Takebe is a member of the House of Representa...

Tokyo, Oct. 14 (Jiji Press)--Embattled Japanese agriculture minister Kazuo Yana submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Wednesday. Takaichi later told reporters that she accepted the minister's resignation and takes seriously her responsibility for appointing him. This is the first scandal-related resignation by a...

Japanese Agriculture Minister Kazuo Yana said he had tendered his resignation following allegations of possible vote-buying, lining him up to become the first senior minister in Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government to quit over a scandal. The prime minister had resisted calls to have Yana step down after local media reports said he claimed to have cut roadworks funding to municipalities that did not support him in February’s general election. The tide turned after allegations surfaced that...

RTI activists allege a possible nexus between mining lessees and officials to derail probes and waive or drastically reduce penalties

Fiji’s Justice Minister Siromi Turaga stepped down from cabinet on Tuesday after an intimate video of him went viral online – the second such scandal to rock the Pacific island nation’s government. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who previously sought credible “proof” before taking action against Turaga, said he accepted his colleague’s resignation. “You mentioned him? Go ahead and report him to me and the Online Safety Commissioner, and I will get proof from that authority with you making the...

Shares of scandal-hit Nidec Corp. fell 6.6% on Tuesday to their lowest level since July 2016 amid concerns about the risk of delisting.

The visit by star-studded Manchester City, the most successful English football team of recent times, was a highlight of Hong Kong’s football festival this summer. Supporters, sporting the club’s colours, flocked to Kai Tak Stadium, turning it into a sea of blue. Now, the club has plumbed the depths, found guilty by an independent tribunal of systematic breaches of the English Premier League’s financial rules over almost a decade. The affair has, with justification, been described as one of the...

The developer of One Stanley has offered flat owners a six-year structural warranty and free independent property inspections amid an investigation into suspected steel reinforcement deficiencies at the seaside luxury residential development in southern Hong Kong. K Wise, a subsidiary of One Stanley developer K&K Property, addressed the brewing scandal on Friday, a week after allegations of substandard work were reported by a local property media outlet, issuing a statement outlining remedial...

Three of the six residential buildings at CK Asset’s “starter homes” project in Hong Kong will be demolished and rebuilt in what the developer called the most “time-saving” solution, two years after a scandal over substandard steel reinforcement work halted construction. The Buildings Department confirmed on Thursday that it had approved demolition plans for three blocks at the Anderson Road development in Kwun Tong, while remedial work was under way at the other three. Earlier investigations...

A care scandal has erupted in Thailand after a nursing home was exposed for confining old and sick residents in beds covered by iron cages with barely a foot of space above their heads. Images of bedridden patients at the Sothornchai Nursing Home in Kanchanaburi, western Thailand, have shocked Thais since they were shared earlier this week on the television current affairs show Hone Krasae. Thailand is projected to be a super-ageing society in the coming years, with authorities warning of a care...

US televangelist Jim Bakker co-founded The PTL Club with his then-wife Tammy Faye before being jailed for fraud and conspiracy.

Manchester City's owners have been found guilty of injecting money into the club. At Manchester United, fans are frustrated at how much has been taken out.

Yokohama, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Seven people have filed their candidacies in the mayoral election of Yokohama, near Tokyo, including scandal-hit former Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka, kicking off the two-week official campaign period from Sunday. The key is whether Yamanaka will be re-elected in the Oct. 18 poll, which will be held because he resigned last month during his second term after an inve...

Figures across Brazil's political spectrum have been linked to the scandal in the midst of a key election.

The Abu Dhabi-controlled club has protested its innocence throughout the long-running case, which dates back to 2018.

Tokyo, Oct. 2 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to issue a partial business suspension order to Tokyo-based Prudential Life Insurance Co., whose employees were found to have defrauded customers, sources said Friday. The FSA has found it necessary to have the company, which is part of the Japanese operations of U.S. giant Prudential Financial Inc., concentrate on rebuildi...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his election rival Flavio Bolsonaro are leaving no controversy unturned in their last-ditch efforts to discredit each other and win over voters ahead of Sunday's nail-biter election.

BJP MP and spokesperson Sambit Patra raised the issue of the paper leak in the Veterinary Officers Recruitment Examination held in January.

The head of the company that runs the Eiffel Tower will step down at the end of the year after female staff at the landmark building in Paris were excluded during a visit by a Hindu religious group. The incident sparked outrage in France and prompted a staff walkout that saw the Eiffel Tower forced to close for a day.

Kyoto, Sept. 30 (Jiji Press)--Nidec Corp. suffered a consolidated net loss of 564.6 billion yen in fiscal 2025, which ended in March this year, the scandal-hit major Japanese motor maker's securities report showed Wednesday. The red ink came as the Nidec group logged an impairment loss of 632.2 billion yen, according to the report, which was submitted to the Kanto Regional Finance Bureau the...

A Chilean clinic owner accused of fake breast scans for 1,439 low-income women took a fast-track deal; prosecutors offered five years. A doctor faces trial. The post Fake Breast Scans in Chile: Clinic Owner Takes Deal, Faces Five Years appeared first on The Rio Times.

Yokohama, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--Former Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka, who resigned in early September over a power harassment scandal, announced Tuesday that he will run as an independent in the Oct. 18 mayoral poll in the city south of Tokyo. At a press conference, Yamanaka, 54, apologized for the scandal and expressed his hope to "sincerely engage with city residents once again." He h...