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...mainland China's English-language newspaper, spy cameras are a hit with consumers in Guangdong province, where spouses are tracking their mates and store owners watch out for shoplifters. After stumbling upon a Tokyo-based pornographic website showing photos of female passengers on Taipei subway trains, a Taipei city councilor recently fueled public paranoia by announcing that the transit system had been infiltrated by Japanese criminals carrying cameras disguised as briefcases...
...kickbacks on public-housing contracts in the district. Halphen quit the judiciary in January, complaining that his seven-year investigation had been repeatedly sabotaged. Before leaving his Caribbean hideaway, Schuller told journalists that he intended to explain how "the system which magistrates have been investigating is not that of Councilor Didier Schuller, but that of a political party...
...SPAIN New Basque Arrests Spanish police said they had disabled an important terror cell after arresting 10 ETA suspects and seizing explosives in a series of raids near San Sebastian. Among those held was a councilor for the Batasuna Party, often accused of being ETA's political wing. The arrests followed reports of U.S. intelligence help via a global surveillance system...
He’s not your average Cambridge politician—and although current involvement in the political system has been brought up at election forums by incumbents as key to being an effective councilor, King says he thinks the city needs a fresh voice...
Speakers at yesterday’s rally, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Commit-tee, argued that the American response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was threatening the civil liberties of students, foreigners and U.S. citizens...