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China Top Court Issues Notice on Legal Reform
China's Supreme People's Court has issued a new statement with detailed measures aimed at improving the country's legal system.
The court said it will prohibit criminal defendants from wearing prison-issued vests and jumpsuits to trials, effectively removing the presumption of guilt.
It will also establish a performance evaluation system for judges, better the mechanism for protecting lawyers' rights and establish media galleries in courts for certain trials.
The court also promised to boost transparency, saying it would make more information available, and reduce local protectionism by changing the jurisdiction of courts.
PBOC conducts money injection after Spring Festival holiday
China's central bank is pumping money into the markets through reverse repurchase agreements to ease liquidity after last week's national holiday.
The move is a process of central banks purchase securities from banks with an agreement to resell them at a future date.
The bank has injected 38 billion yuan, which equals to more than 6 billion U.S. dollars, into the markets through 14-day reverse repos, priced to yield 4.1 percent.
The injection aims to ease the condition of tightened liquidity as a series of other operations made before the Spring Festival holiday are due this week.
Top China liquor company executive subject of criminal investigation
A senior executive of a top Chinese liquor company is facing criminal investigation.
The discipline watchdog in southwest China's Guizhou Province says it has found evidence indicating Fang Guoxing, a deputy general manager of Kweichow Maotai Group, may have seriously violated disciplinary regulations.
But the watchdog hasn't provided further details.
Maotai, distilled in the town of Maotai in Renhuai City, has been considered the country's top liquor brand for decades.
Fang had been at Maotai since January 2013 before being investigated starting in November.
Breaking: IS militant known as Jihadi John identified
The Islamic State Militant known as "Jihadi John" is reported to have been identified.
The man, believed to be the individual seen in numerous videos produced by IS showing the beheadings of hostages, has been named as Mohammed Emwazi.
Emwazi is a UK citizen whose last known place of residence was in London.
Emwazi first appeared last August in a video which showed the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
Scotland Yard has apparently known of the man's identity for some time, but chose not to disclose it for operational reasons.
Argentina approves bill to dissolve intelligence agency
Argentina's Congress has approved a bill to dissolve the country's intelligence agency.
The Intelligence Secretariat will be replaced with a new federal agency that will be accountable to Congress.
The proposal was drafted last month by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, following the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
The president accused a rogue agent of feeding misleading information to Nisman, who was investigating whether she was trying to cover up Iran's alleged role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires.
One killed in four bombings in Egypt's Giza
At least one has been killed and four others wounded in four bomb explosions in the south of Cairo.
Egyptian Health Ministry says bombs went off outside the offices of cell phone companies and a restaurant in Giza province.
A wave of militants attacks, mainly based in the Sinai Peninsula, has hit the country following the ouster of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
The Islamist militants claim that the attacks are in retaliation for the security crackdown against Morsi's supporters, which left nearly 1,000 killed and thousands more in prison.
Lippi resigns as coach of Guangzhou Evergrande
Starting off with some breaking news from the Chinese football super league:
Marcello Lippi on Thursday resigned as the coach and the technical director of Chinese Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande.
Lippi, who led Evergrande to four straight titles of the Chinese top-flight league and the AFC Champions League peak in 2013, recently showed his willingness to step down due to alleged health and family reasons.
The club formally agreed today.
Fabio Cannavaro, 41, former world player of the year and a World Cup winner, will take the rein of Evergrande.
China's basketball league to set up players' association
The Chinese Basketball Association is planning to set up a players' association.
Like the U.S. National Basketball Players Association which was launched in 1954, the CBA's players union is expected to protect the rights of CBA players, however, pundits are worried whether this union is really able to do the job.
Different from the NBPA which is independent from NBA, the CBA players' association will be part of the CBA structure.
Twenty CBA clubs will be asked to have a player representative each in the union, which will hire a lawyer to offer legal help and advice.
