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Trump election: Wall with Mexico 'to be part fence' www.bbc.com

US President-elect Donald Trump has said his planned wall along the Mexican border could be partly fence.
In some areas, "a wall is more appropriate", he told US broadcaster CBS, but "there could be some fencing",
Mr Trump repeatedly promised during his election campaign to build a wall to keep out illegal migrants.
He said he planned to deport or jail up to three million undocumented migrants with criminal records, such as gang members and drug dealers.
Other undocumented migrants would be assessed once the border was secured, Mr Trump added.
Forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall became a rallying cry among Trump supporters during the campaign.
Their candidate caused outrage by suggesting Mexicans were exporting "their rapists" to the US, along with drugs and other crime.

The Republican defeated Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's presidential election, shocking many who had expected the Democratic candidate to win following favourable opinion polls.
In his first major interview to a US broadcaster since the election, Mr Trump told CBS: "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate."

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Zuckerberg promises Facebook action over fake news www.bbc.com

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook will do more to tackle fake news, and again denied it had in any way aided Donald Trump's presidential election victory.
In a post on his Facebook profile Mr Zuckerberg said he hoped to announce measures to tackle fake stories "soon".
He said this work "often takes longer than we'd like in order to confirm changes we make won't introduce unintended side effects or bias".
And he said that more than 99% of content on Facebook "is authentic".
"Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes. The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics," he added.
He said that made it extremely unlikely hoaxes "changed the outcome of the election in one direction or the other".
'Progress'
Mr Zuckerberg continued: "That said, we don't want any hoaxes on Facebook. Our goal is to show people the content they will find most meaningful, and people want accurate news.
"We have already launched work enabling our community to flag hoaxes and fake news, and there is more we can do here. We have made progress, and we will continue to work on this to improve further."
Some data has shown that fake stories were being far more widely shared on the platform than follow-up stories debunking the claims.
For an increasing number of people, particularly Americans, Facebook is becoming the primary source of news coverage.
The site's News Feed is specifically designed to show users content it thinks will be of most interest, creating what some describe as a "filter bubble" that reinforces a person's view without injecting differences in opinion.
Earlier this year, Facebook was accused of being anti-Trump after it was alleged its human moderators were favouring liberal stories appearing in people's "trending stories" box.
While denying that claim, the site did sack its human team, instead relying solely on an algorithm to determine which stories were shown to be most popular.
'Mainstream sources'
Mr Zuckerberg said any new changes to the way hoaxes and fake news were flagged up had to be taken with caution.
"This is an area where I believe we must proceed very carefully though," he said.
"Identifying the 'truth' is complicated. While some hoaxes can be completely debunked, a greater amount of content, including from mainstream sources, often gets the basic idea right but some details wrong or omitted.
"An even greater volume of stories express an opinion that many will disagree with and flag as incorrect even when factual.
"I am confident we can find ways for our community to tell us what content is most meaningful, but I believe we must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves."

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S.Korean prosecutors request to question Park www3.nhk.or.jp

South Korean prosecutors say they plan to question President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday or Wednesday over a political scandal involving her friend and close aides.

Prosecutors announced on Sunday that they have notified the presidential office of their intention and are waiting for response.

Park will be South Korea's first sitting president to be investigated by prosecutors.

Prosecutors are expected to indict Park's friend and businesswoman Choi Soon-sil around next Saturday.

Choi is at the center of the scandal. She has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to abuse power and of attempting to defraud 2 foundations said to have been launched with the help of the presidential office. Two former presidential officials have also been arrested.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Seoul on Saturday night to demand Park's resignation. A spokesperson for the presidential office says Park is aware of the severity of the situation and is working hard to fulfil her responsibility to normalize the country's political situation.

Prosecutors have also begun questioning the heads of Hyundai Motor, Samsung Electronics and other conglomerates as part of their investigation into the scandal.

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Toyota agrees to $3.4bn rust dispute settlement in US www.bbc.com

The world's biggest carmaker, Toyota, has agreed to settle a US Federal class action for up to $3.4bn (£2.7bn).
It was brought by US owners of pickup trucks and SUVs whose claimed their frames could rust through.
The proposed settlement covers 1.5 million Tacoma compact pickups, Tundra full-size pickups and Sequoia SUVs.
Court papers alleged that the vehicles had received inadequate rust protection, and that corrosion could jeopardise their structural integrity.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs estimated the cost of frame replacements at about $3.375bn.
That was based on a cost of about $15,000 per vehicle and inspection costs of about $90m, at $60 per vehicle.
The Japanese carmaker Toyota admitted no liability or wrongdoing in the proposed settlement.
"We want our customers to have a great ownership experience, so we are pleased to resolve this litigation in a way that benefits them and demonstrates that we stand behind the quality and reliability of our vehicles," Toyota said in a statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Toyota will inspect the vehicles for 12 years from the day they were first sold or leased in order to ascertain if frames need to be replaced at company expense.
They will also reimburse owners who previously paid for frame replacement.
The settlement covers Tacoma trucks from the model years 2005 to 2010, Sequoias from 2005 to 2008 and Tundras from the 2007 and 2008 model years.

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China says concerned about EU protectionism on steel imports www.reuters.com

China is greatly concerned about the European Union's protectionist measures against Chinese steel products, the commerce ministry said on Saturday.

"The Chinese side has expressed great concerns and worries about the EU's trade protectionist tendency over steel," the ministry said in a statement on its website.

The ministry was responding to the EU's latest decision to take temporary anti-dumping measures against imports of Chinese seamless steel pipes, based on preliminary investigations, it said.

A worldwide steel glut has stoked trade disputes between China, the world's top maker of the construction material, and other producers such as the United States and the European Union.

High duties levied on Chinese products could seriously hurt Chinese companies, the ministry said.

"China is willing to strengthen exchanges and communication with the European side and properly solve problems that the steel industry is facing," it said.

(Reporting by Coco Li and Kevin Yao; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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Canadian oil company to invest $50bn in Russian projects www.rt.com

Canadian engineering technology company Genoil has signed a letter of intent worth $50 billion with Russia’s Grozneft. The deal will support what are described as integrated oil projects in Russia.
Genoil will develop oil fields and build clean technology upgraders, refineries and pipelines in Russia, according to the company.

At first, Genoil plans to invest $15 billion into projects in Russia’s southern republic of Chechnya. The company will explore ways to link the new project to existing pipeline networks in the region.

“We have good ties to Chinese investors, we are ready to invest into infrastructure development, and we believe that it’s possible to increase oil production in Russia by this,” a company representative said as quoted by Vedomosti daily.

“First of all, money will be invested into developing reservoirs in the republic to create a refinery with a capacity of 3-6 million tons of oil,” said Grozneft chairman Andrey Gusak, stressing that the investors may consider buying mining assets in other regions of the country.

Russia’s Economic Development Ministry hasn’t reportedly received any documents concerning the deal.
The project has raised doubts among the experts, interviewed by the daily.

“Genoil is an unknown company, while the sum is huge. Moreover, it may be equitable to the annual capital cost of the whole Russia’s fuel and energy sector,” said Valery Nesterov, analyst to Sberbank CIB.

Using Chinese capital, the company plans to invest into something that does not have economic sense, according to the head of Urus Advisory in Moscow.

“The Chinese do not need Canadians to enter the Russian market: they have ties, resources and business skills,” the analyst said.

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Wanda's Wang Jianlin named richest in China www.asia.nikkei.com

SHANGHAI -- Wang Jianlin, the founder and chairman of property conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, is the richest person in China, with assets worth 215 billion yuan ($31.7 billion), according to this year's Hurun Report ranking.

The list of China's richest people is issued annually by the Shanghai-based Hurun Report, led by British accountant Rupert Hoogewerf. The ranking targets Chinese businesspeople with total assets of more than 2 billion yuan. This year, the number of eligible individuals topped 2,000 for the first time.

Heads of property and internet businesses dominated the top spots. Jack Ma Yun, executive chairman of online shopping giant Alibaba Group Holding, was second richest, and Pony Ma Huateng, CEO of internet giant Tencent Holdings, was third.

Wang Jianlin has built a number of shopping malls and theme parks in China while expanding his realm aggressively through buying companies including American film studios. His business appears to be struggling with financing recently, but the Wang family's assets exceeded even those of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, who runs the conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings.

Jack Ma Yun, executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding
Ma's assets, meanwhile, increased more than 40% in the past year, largely thanks to the successful 30 billion yuan fundraising by Ant Financial Services Group, Alibaba's online payment affiliate, earlier this year. The steady growth of Alibaba shares on the New York Stock Exchange also contributed.

Most of the richest individuals expanded their assets through mergers, acquisitions or fundraising. Alibaba, for example, obtained a stake in Didi Chuxing, China's leading ride-hailing service, in addition to investing in some startups.

Tencent bought Finnish gaming developer Supercell. The value of Tencent shares in the Hong Kong market has grown to 2 trillion Hong Kong dollars ($257 billion), closely behind Alibaba, China's No. 1 company in terms of market capitalization.

Despite a 15% increase in his assets, Robin Li, the founder and chief executive of search engine provider Baidu, fell to eighth place on the list. This was partly due to a slump in Baidu's shares due to criticism over the search platform's inappropriate handling of medical ads. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, China's top three conglomerates, are often referred to collectively by the acronym BAT, but the gap between Li's business and the other two appears to be widening.

The stock market in China crashed last year, and the value of the Chinese currency has fallen about 10% since the beginning of 2014. As the country's economy struggles, the growth pace of the richest men's assets has also slowed, averaging 7%.

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Bull market! Chinese stocks up 21% since January panic www.cnn.com

The bull is back in China.
China's benchmark index, the Shanghai Composite, has rallied by more than 21% from its recent low in January when traders panicked and stocks cratered.
A 20% rise is needed for stocks to technically be considered in a "bull market."
However, the move higher isn't enough to compensate for the painful losses suffered by Chinese investors in 2008 and 2015. The Shanghai Composite is still down 48% from its 2007 pre-financial crisis high, and 38% below another smaller peak set last June.

Chinese markets are extremely volatile because they're dominated by mom-and-pop investors who tend to follow trends, herd into stocks and then get skittish.
The country's second-largest index, the Shenzhen Composite, is prone to even wilder swings. It's up 30% from its January low.
Charlie Awdry, a fund manager at Henderson Global Investors who specializes in Chinese equities, said the new bull market resulted from a "stealth drift up" over the past few months rather than a sudden surge.
Trading volumes -- the number of shares traded each day -- are still pretty low, he said.
china shanghai composite index
Chinese investors are getting back into the market and bidding shares higher as they divert their money away from an overheated housing market that's becoming less and less affordable.
The government recently moved to cool the market by introducing restrictions on purchases, and some investors have reacted by moving their money into stocks, said Awdry.
Government spending on infrastructure projects and lending by state banks have also played a part in the stock market recovery.
The stimulus measures are being taken to support China's slowing economy, which is growing by 6.7% annually. That may sound fast, but it's much slower than the double-digit growth seen in previous years.

The start of the bull market in China comes immediately after Donald Trump's election win in the U.S., which helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time high on Thursday.
But experts say there's no connection to the presidential election.
"[Chinese investors are] probably watching the fact that Trump [was elected to be] President... but that's really not occupying much mindshare as they're trading this market," said Awdry. "They are dancing to a different tune than everyone else."

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Japan, India sign agreement on civil nuclear power www.aljazeera.com

Japan has signed a controversial deal to sell civil nuclear power equipment and technology to I ndia, despite resistance from campaigners, as the two countries seek to boost business and security ties.

The pact, signed on Friday in Tokyo by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi , marked the first time Japan agreed to such a deal with a country that is not a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Critics in Japan, the victim of US atomic bombings in the final days of World War II, have previously raised concerns about a risk of the country's technology being diverted to India's nuclear weapons programme.

Yet, the deal is limited to peaceful commercial use, and Tokyo cam terminate it if India conducts a nuclear test.

The pact allows India to reprocess fuel and enrich uranium, though highly enriched uranium that can be used to make nuclear weapons is not permitted without written agreement by Japan.

India's Nuclear Riddle - People & Power
Abe and Modi insisted the agreement will contribute to peaceful use of clean energy.

"This agreement sets a legal framework to assure that India acts responsibly for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy," Abe said, adding that it gets India to effectively participate in the non-proliferation treaty framework.

"It is also in line with Japan's position to promote non-proliferation to create a world without nuclear weapons."

Abe's pro-business government seeks to export nuclear power plants to counter shrinking sales at home since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, and has discussed similar deals with Vietnam and Turkey.

Modi praised the signing as "a historic step in our engagement to build a clean energy partnership" that will help India to "combat the challenge of climate change".

Anti-nuclear groups denounced the agreement, citing threats to safety and regional peace and increased risk of proliferation.

"There is no effective separation between India’s nuclear energy programme and its weapons programme, and the Japanese government’s agreement conditions are meaningless," Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist at Greenpeace Japan, said in a statement .

"Approving nuclear trade with India is a geo-strategic decision to support further nuclear weapons proliferation in Asia."

The women of Fukushima, an anti-nuclear lobbying group, have issued an appeal to Modi to visit the disaster area and see at first hand the consequences of nuclear power.

"Nuclear power plants will not bring happiness to your citizens," the group said in an open letter.

"We who experienced the injury of the nuclear accident, we came to understand this through our own bodies and lives."

Energy-hungry India wants to increase nuclear power generation to support its strong economic growth. The country has signed similar nuclear agreements with France, Russia, Britain and the United States.

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Obama administration reportedly abandons TPP www3.nhk.or.jp

The administration of President Barack Obama has reportedly abandoned its long-running goal to ratify the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.

Several US media outlets said on Friday that Obama administration officials acknowledged the TPP deal has no way forward in the remaining days of his presidency, which ends in January.

They say opposition to the multilateral trade deal by president-elect Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers has effectively killed its chances.

White House official Ben Rhodes said on Friday that President Obama is planning to meet with leaders of TPP member countries when they gather at an APEC summit starting next Saturday in Peru.

Obama is likely to press home the importance of the economic and security implications of the trade pact.

Some countries are proposing negotiations for a new economic agreement that excludes the United States.

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