By Luisa Frey ♦ The Indonesian province of Aceh, devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, has become a model for reconstruction operations and might offer useful lessons for rebuilding the Philippines. ♦ Hairy crabs – delicacies which used to be one of China's many currencies of corruption – are feeling the impact of new abstemiousness, reports FT's Patti Waldmeir. After launching an austerity drive last year, Xi Jinping has announced further measures. ♦ China's President, Xi Jinping, has admitted watching "The Godfather" and seems to have learned a lesson from it: "the art of amassing and applying power in a small, secretive circle of men", according to The New York Times' blog, Sinosphere. ♦ The New York Times also reports on the refugees who try to travel from Indonesia to Australia’s Christmas Island, hoping for better living conditions. More than a thousand have already died on the journey. ♦ After attacking immigrants, Dutch politician Geert Wilders and France’s Marine Le Pen have shifted their focus to the European Union. Both want to form a new Eurosceptic bloc and "fight this monster called Europe", writes The Economist. Read more | 
