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...CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES...
...votes in every major constituency (and many elections have been decided by only a few thousand ballots). Some 80% of LDP candidates who received New Komeito endorsement this time around were elected. In contrast, 55% of LDP candidates without the New Komeito imprimatur won their races. Says Jun Iio, professor of government at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo: "The LDP cannot remain the ruling party without the New Komeito...
Call it South Korea's Schwarzenegger option, minus the celebrity. Hong Jun Pyo, a lawmaker with the conservative Grand National Party, says beleaguered President Roh Moo Hyun's recent call for a national referendum to gauge confidence in his leadership doesn't go far enough. Hong argues that if a vote is to be held, Roh's name isn't the only one that should appear on a ballot-he should face off against another candidate. "People are afraid of confusion and instability," says Hong. "They want an alternative, like in California...
While the U.S. and Europe are concentrating on using RFID in logistics, Jun Murai, head of Japan's Auto-ID center at Keio University, says gadget-crazy Asians in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are more likely to want household items with RFID chips that can communicate with a home network. The Chinese are more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align...
...Koreans, who in recent years have seized pop-film primacy from Hong Kong, make the most of their borrowings from other cultures. Jang Jun Hwan's Save the Green Planet! has a paranoid science-fiction premise: that aliens are to take over Earth at the next lunar eclipse and that, our deranged hero believes, they use their hair to broadcast telepathic signals. You've heard this before, possibly from someone muttering next to you on a bus. But then the madness escalates: for a while you think the movie is going crazy; then you realize that the insanity is contagious...