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...refuge. "We were safe when Malaysia was seen as a place to hide," says a Malaysian intelligence officer. "But now we are arresting militants, and they are angry." - By Simon Elegant and Mageswary Ramakrishnan In the Dock THE NETHERLANDS Pre-trial hearings in the case of Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat, accused of complicity in genocide for selling banned chemicals to Iraq, opened in Rotterdam. Van Anraat is alleged to have sold mustard gas and nerve gas to Saddam Hussein. The agents were used in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, in which 5,000 people died...
...since Veronica Mars found her best friend’s murdered body, and was drugged and raped in the aftermath, she became ostracized from her remaining friends. Why? Because her father—then the sheriff—accused the deceased’s father, a very popular local businessman, of murdering his own daughter. Since, she has helped her father in his private eye business...
...grow to its full potential, it had to capture foreign markets. Basing himself in New York-when Sony opened its store on Fifth Avenue in 1962, it was the first time the Japanese flag had flown in the city since the war-Morita became the best-known Japanese businessman in the world, friends with the great and the good on three continents. But Morita came from a family of long-established sake brewers, and the company was also always careful to maintain its Japanese roots. Notwithstanding the attractions of low-cost labor elsewhere, Sony continued to source products...
...young businessman named Akio Morita made his first trip outside Japan to investigate export prospects for his struggling little electronics company. He was dismayed to find that in the sophisticated markets of the U.S. and Europe, the words Made in Japan were a mocking phrase for shoddiness. But in The Netherlands, he recalls, "I saw an agricultural country with many windmills and many bicycles, and yet it was producing goods of excellent quality and had worldwide sales power. I thought that maybe we Japanese could do it too." Indeed, they could. A month ago, Morita took off on his 94th...
...young businessman named Akio Morita made his first trip outside Japan in 1953 to investigate export prospects for his struggling little electronics company. He was dismayed to find that in the sophisticated markets of the U.S. and Europe, the words made in Japan were a mocking phrase for shoddiness. But in the Netherlands, he recalls, "I saw an agricultural country with many windmills and many bicycles, and yet it was producing goods of excellent quality and had worldwide sales power. I thought that maybe we Japanese could do it too." Indeed they could. A month ago, Morita took...