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...Japan is getting little help from its neighbors. While Lee Myung Bak, the conservative-leaning Seoul mayor widely tipped to win South Korea's Presidential elections on Dec. 19, is expected to take a harder line with the North generally, Japan's single-minded focus on the abductions makes South Korean observers squirm. Kim Hyun Ho, director of the Chosun Ilbo Research Institute for Korea, notes that while Seoul claims more than 480 abducted citizens of its own, it worries that such a "very political" issue could cloud ongoing nuclear negotiations. "South Korea doesn't want this...
South Korea's leading presidential candidate, Lee Myung Bak, averted a setback that could have cost him the upcoming election when government prosecutors cleared him of fraud accusations in connection with a 2001 financial scam involving a former business partner...
...Myung Bak is a ruthless profiteer who has no concern for the environment. His companies have indiscriminately covered great areas of land with massive apartment buildings. He is only trying to work his way into the American limelight to further his goal of being the next President of South Korea. Patricia Ko, GIMPO, SOUTH KOREA...
...years of biting their tongues in public over censorship, filmmakers are now finding their voice - and not just art-house mavericks like Apichatpong. The Thai Film Directors' Association is lobbying lawmakers not to pass the act in its current form. Prachya Pinkaew, director of international martial-arts hits Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong, now sports a NO CUT, NO BAN anticensorship T shirt...
...told his colleagues at a Faculty meeting that day that Knowles would return “within a few days.” “As Christopher Robin put on his door for Winnie-the-Pooh to read,” Knowles wrote to professors, ‘Bak Sun!’” But only five days later, Knowles’ condition worsened, forcing Bok to ask David R. Pilbeam—then the senior adviser to the Dean of the College—to step in as FAS dean. “It?...