Hello, Australia! – Some Aussies are coming home after 50 years – Is Putin setting the stage for a crackdown on rights groups? – A Chinese Internet company boldly goes where no one has gone before – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck north of Tokyo.  It shook buildings in the megalopolis and in Mito City, and shook buildings in Tokyo and halted bullet train lines heading north and south out of the capital.  There is concern because of the proximity to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant, but so far no damage is reported.

Australia is bringing home the remains of as many as 25 soldiers who were killed five decades ago in the Vietnam War.  Opposition leader Bill Shorten said it would right a 50-year-old wrong – which is leaving the men in graves in Southeast Asia, despite objections from their families.  The first Australian killed in the Vietnam War was Warrant Officer Kevin Conway – he is the only Australian Vietnam War casualty buried at Singapore's Kranji War Cemetery.  The other 24 are resting in Terendak Military Cemetery in Malaysia.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says he is “deeply concerned” about the discovery of mass graves in his country, believed to be those of Rohingya Muslim migrants from Myanmar.  The location in Perlis state is close to the Thai border, across which graves were found in secret human trafficking camps earlier this month.  There may be dozens of even hundreds of corpses in the graves.  Razak vows, “We will find those responsible.”

As thousands attended the funeral for a Burundi opposition figure gunned down outside his home, many other opposition leaders are going into hiding.  They say that those who publicly opposed President Pierre Nkurunziza’s plans to run for a third term in office are not safe.  At the funeral for Zedi Feruzi, people marched for 90 minutes, singing patriotic songs.

Families of people killed at a ranch in Michoacan, Mexico over the weekend say it wasn’t so much of a gunbattle with police as it was a massacre.  Most of the dead were allegedly members of the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel.  Police chalk up the lopsided score – 42 gangsters and one cop killed – to better training, better equipment, and the use of a helicopter.  Families say the dead men were migrant farm workers, and point out that cops confiscated fewer weapons than there were people killed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend signed a bill into law that will give his government more power to restrict the activities of foreign human rights groups, and kick them out of Russia.  Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemn the law as part of an “ongoing draconian crackdown, which is squeezing the life out of civil society”.

Greece says it doesn’t have the money to maks next month’s payments to its EU and IMF creditors – unless it reaches a deal with them.  This is a turnaround from previous assurances that Athens would make all upcoming payments.

A Chinese businessman spent US$160 Million to make his office look like the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, and that price tag apparently includes buying an official license from Paramount Pictures, just so he could “make it so”.  Lest you think this is a hoax, you can even look at it on Google Maps.  Looks like a fun place to work, the NetDragon Websoft company’s office campus has a football pitch, pyramids, tennis courts, and a big T-Rex inside the office.