World Briefs

CHINA A Japanese woman in her 50s has been detained in Shanghai since June over her suspected involvement in spying activities, Kyodo news agency said yesterday. It’s the fourth Japanese citizen to be detained on spying charges since May, all in different parts of China.

NORTH KOREA Kim Jong Un took center stage at a military parade and mass rally in Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the country’s ruling party by declaring in a rare speech that the North has no intention of straying from the socialist track established by his grandfather and is ready to stand up to any threat posed by the United States. Inside FT

PHILIPPINES The quick-thinking crew of a Philippine cargo ship thwarted a possible a hijacking or robbery at sea over the weekend in the volatile southern region by locking themselves in their quarters, the coast guard said. About eight men on two motorized outriggers boarded the MV Cecilia off Davao del Sur province, but the crew quickly locked all the vessel’s hatches and windows. The suspected pirates left empty-handed before a coast guard vessel arrived at the site, near Balut Island.

PANAMA During the four years that Trump Panama Condominium Management LLC had managed the property, Central America’s largest building, a team installed by the Trump family was accused of running up more than USD2 million in unauthorized debts, paying its executives undisclosed bonuses and withholding basic financial information from owners.

MEXICO Authorities say they’ve seized some 4 tons of shark fins and fish air bladders that were being shipped illegally to Hong Kong. The environmental prosecutor’s office says about 3.5 tons of dehydrated shark fins and a half ton of the corvina bladders were found in a container at the Pacific Coast port of Manzanillo over the weekend. It says the company shipping the products did not have a permit to do so.

GOLF The Americans won for the sixth straight time yesterday in Presidents Cup when Chris Kirk made a 15-foot birdie putt to win his match in a stunning turnaround on the final hole, and Bill Haas provided a storybook ending with the winning point for his team and for his father. “A moment I’ll never forget,” U.S. captain Jay Haas said, so choked up when it ended that he couldn’t speak.