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Saturday 25 November 2017
8 North Korean fishermen wash ashore in Japan China breaks up

gang that moved

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Police said they also found nese Coast Guard rescued In 2015, a wooden boat $3 billion abroad
Associated Press a wooden boat at a near- three North Korean men drifted ashore in another
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese by marina. from a capsized fishing coastal town in Akita and By JOE McDONALD
police said Friday they are Police said the men were in boat off Japan’s northern skeletal remains of two AP Business Writer
investigating eight men good health and spoke Ko- coast. men were found — one in- BEIJING (AP) — Chinese
found on Japan’s north- rean. They identified them- They were transferred hours side the vessel and another police say they have bro-
ern coast who say they selves as North Koreans later to another North Kore- one nearby. Three North ken up a gang that smug-
are from North Korea and who were fishing before an vessel that was to return Korean boats with 10 bod- gled 20 billion yuan ($3
washed ashore after their the boat broke down and them home. ies inside also washed up billion) out of the country,
boat broke down. washed ashore. Japan and North Korea on the Noto Peninsula. evading financial controls
Akita prefectural police The investigation underway have no diplomatic ties This year, more than a imposed by Beijing to stem
found the men late Thurs- will include the possibility of and tensions are often high dozen cases of wreckag- an outflow of capital from
day after receiving a call illegal fishing, Chief Cabi- due to their colonial and es were reported in three the economy.
that suspicious men were net Secretary Yoshihide wartime history and Pyong- northern prefectures facing Seven suspects were de-
standing around at the Suga told reporters. yang’s missile and nuclear the Sea of Japan, accord- tained in the case cen-
seaside in Yurihonjo town. A week earlier, the Japa- threats. ing to the Coast Guard.q tered in the southern city
Shaoguan near Hong Kong
but as many as 10,000 peo-
China: ple might have been in-
volved, the official Xinhua
Parents demand answers to school abuse claims News Agency reported.
Chinese authorities have
steadily tightened foreign-
By YI-LING LIU exchange controls to stem
SAM McNEIL a multibillion-dollar outflow
Associated Press of capital that they say
BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of hampers financial man-
upset parents gathered Fri- agement in the world’s
day outside a kindergarten second-largest economy.
in Beijing run by a U.S.-listed The group in Shaoguan is
company demanding an- accused of moving money
swers after reports alleged illegally using 148 bank ac-
some children had been counts opened in 20 prov-
molested, abused and left inces with stolen identity
with what appeared to be cards, according to Xin-
needle marks on their bod- hua. It said they made un-
ies. specified “huge profits” by
The allegations, coming trading on the difference in
just weeks after reports of exchange rates between
abuse at a Shanghai day- Hong Kong dollars and the
care center, prompted a mainland’s yuan.
wave of anger from par- Beijing allowed an informal
ents nationwide and a swift financial industry to flourish
government response. over the past two decades
The State Council, China’s to support entrepreneurs
cabinet, on Friday ordered A woman leaves with a child after telling the media she came to withdraw the child from the but is tightening controls
nationwide inspections of RYB kindergarten in Beijing, China, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. Chinese authorities are investigating due to mounting concern
kindergartens to review allegations that children attending the RYB kindergarten in Beijing run by a U.S.-listed company about financial stability.
teacher conduct, citing have been abused and molested. Regulators are especially
“recent incidents in many (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) worried about unauthor-
locations.” A group of parents de- it would inspect other kin- in an uncivilized fashion.” ized cross-border move-
After worrying about food manded answers outside dergartens in the Chinese Earlier this month, surveil- ment of money at a time
and drug safety for years, the Xintiandi school gate capital, while the compa- lance video emerged of when they are trying to
Chinese parents say they on Friday while other par- ny that runs the preschool, abuse at a Shanghai day- stem an outflow of capital.
now worry about poten- ents led their children past Beijing-based RYB Educa- care center run by China’s Companies and investors
tial lapses in supervision in reporters and plainclothes tion, said in a statement largest online travel com- rushed to export money
the booming private pre- security agents to the it has suspended three pany, Ctrip. The video, up- after a change in the
school industry. doors. teachers. It promised to loaded by angry parents mechanism used to set the
The latest scandal in Beijing “We need clarification. As cooperate with police in a on Chinese social media, government-controlled
erupted after influential parents, we have the right thorough investigation and showed teachers slapping exchange rate in 2015
newsmagazine Caixin and to question the school, vowed “zero tolerance” for a crying girl, pushing a tod- prompted expectations
other Chinese media quot- don’t we?” said a father abusive staff. dler to the ground, and the yuan would weaken in
ed some parents as saying who gave only his surname, It’s the latest case involving force-feeding students a value. That forced the Chi-
their children were molest- Wang. Another man, who schools to spark online out- substance later confirmed nese central bank to spend
ed, forced to strip as pun- also gave only his surname, rage in China. to be wasabi. In April, heavily to shore up the
ishment, found with unex- Li, said: “If there is no expla- “Laws must be enforced, RYB Education suspend- yuan. Regulators mean-
plained apparent needle nation, I’m not sending my supervision strengthened, ed the headmaster and while tightened controls on
marks on their bodies and child here anymore. I will teacher wages increased,” two teachers at another outflows and stepped up
made to take unidentified come over every day until an editorial by the official branch in Beijing after a scrutiny of proposed invest-
white pills. The claims could they respond.” Xinhua News Agency said. video of a teacher kicking ments abroad, prompting
not be independently veri- The Beijing Municipal Com- “The childcare industry children was widely shared some people to turn to un-
fied. mission of Education said cannot be allowed to grow online. q derground operations.q