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Kyodo news summary -4-+(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, April 3_(Kyodo) _ ---------- Thai premier Thaksin rebuffs resignation call after election BANGKOK - Embattled Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Monday rebuffed calls for his resignation after early results of Sunday's election showed strong disapproval of his ruling Thai Rak Thai Party. Before a high-level meeting at his party's headquarters, Thaksin said he would make a decision on his political future after ballot counting ends. ---------- Local gov'ts told to review tax breaks for N. Korea groups TOKYO - The government urged local authorities to review their tax breaks for facilities owned by pro-North Korean organizations in a written notice dated Saturday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Monday. Following a court ruling in February against such preferential tax treatment, the internal affairs ministry has been promoting its policy to the local governments concerned and repeated it in writing at the April 1 start of fiscal 2006, Abe said in a press conference. ---------- Officer found collapsed with gun injuries in Nagano police building NAGANO, Japan - A riot police officer was found collapsed and bleeding from a gunshot to the head on Monday morning at the Nagano prefectural police headquarters after an apparent suicide attempt, police said. The officer, only identified as being in his 20s, has been rushed to a hospital in Nagano City and remains unconscious, the police said. ---------- Prosecutors appeal Muraoka's acquittal over donation scandal TOKYO - Prosecutors appealed Monday a district court acquittal of Kanezo Muraoka, a former senior Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, of a charge of concealing a dental lobby's political donations to an LDP faction in 2001. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office said the Tokyo District Court misevaluated evidence in last Thursday's ruling that discredited testimony by a key witness. |