Around Asia Pacific & Oceania [12.14.14]

China

• China’s E-Cigarette Boom Lacks Oversight for Safety [New York Times] 
  

• China plans hike in cigarette taxes, prices to deter smokers [Reuters]

 

• China Is Said to Have Freed Jailed Uighur Linguist Abduweh Ayup [New York Times]

Mutual trust among

Tibetan Buddhists, Chinese Christians, Uighur Muslims
and
the Communist Party of China 

is beneficial to both.

Japan

• Mr. Shinzo Abe Appears to Win Landslide Victory in Parliamentary Elections [New York Times]

"Exit polls showed the governing party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on course to win as many as 306 seats, enough to keep its majority."