SEOUL -- Seventy-three South Korean suspects, who have been detained in Cambodia over alleged involvement in scam crimes, will be forcibly returned home, the presidential Blue House said Thursday.
Presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung told a press briefing that a joint investigation team will forcibly repatriate 73 South Korean suspects on Friday morning, as they were accused of defrauding 869 South Koreans of about 48.6 billion won (about 33.1 million U.S. dollars) based in Cambodia. (South Korea-Scam Suspects)
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HANOI -- The ongoing 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on Thursday announced the results of the election of the new Party Central Committee members.
Among the 180 official members of the newly elected committee are General Secretary of the CPV Central Committee (CPVCC) To Lam, Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man, permanent member of the Secretariat of the CPVCC Tran Cam Tu. (Vietnam-CPVCC)
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SYDNEY -- A gunman remained at large on Thursday night after three people were shot dead west of Sydney in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW).
NSW Police Force Assistant Commissioner Andrew Holland told reporters on Thursday night that officers were called to reports of shots fired in the small town of Lake Cargelligo, 450 km west of Sydney, around 4:20 p.m. local time on Thursday. (Australia-Police-Shooting)
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NEW DELHI -- At least 10 Indian army troopers were killed and 10 others injured Thursday after a vehicle carrying them skidded off the mountainous road and fell into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
The accident took place at Khanni top along the Bhaderwah-Chamba interstate road in Doda district, about 252 km southeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. (India-Army-Accident)
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TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on Thursday decided to shut down a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after an alarm went off during the withdrawal of control rods, only a day after the unit was restarted for the first time in about 14 years.
Earlier in the day, TEPCO suspended control rod withdrawal operations at the just-restarted reactor No. 6 of the plant in Niigata Prefecture after the alarm was triggered at 00:28 a.m. local time as a third batch of control rods was being withdrawn. (Japan-TEPCO-Nuclear Plant) Enditem
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