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...PLEADED GUILTY. SUN WOO LEE, YEONGHO KANG and YOUNG WOO LEE, executives at South Korea's Samsung Electronics; to their role in fixing prices for DRAM electronic chips; in San Francisco. The U.S. Justice Department charges that from 1999 to 2002 Samsung and three other companies colluded to set artificially high prices for the chips, used in computers and mobile phones. The three were sentenced to prison terms of up to eight months and will pay fines of $250,000 each. The ongoing investigation has resulted in more than $731 million in criminal fines...
...dictator Kim Jong Il's gulags, which alone houses an estimated 20,000 prisoners, including many jailed for what Pyongyang deems political crimes. If you've heard of Yodok, that's because it has already gained a good deal of international infamy. One of Yodok's former inmates, Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector now living in Seoul, wrote a harrowing memoir (The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag) about his imprisonment there as a young boy. The book was translated into English, and Kang ended up in Washington last year chatting about his incarceration...
...milk, for example, rots your teeth.” But some of Tosca’s patrons don’t like the new ads. “Coffee should be savored for its taste, not for the caffeine,” says Louis K. Kang ’09, who feels the advertisements “degrade the coffee.” But for those chugging caffeine to pull all nighters in the musty Lamont reading room, Toscanini’s might just hit the spot. Even at two bucks...
...stages and will soon begin advertising in full force. He said he has already begun meeting with potential participants and that he will hold additional information sessions over reading period. “Anything they can do to encourage summer research would be really great,” said Kang-Xing Jin ’06, a joint concentrator in computer science and psychology and co-chair of the Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, Behavior. “This could be a great opportunity to meet some people you wouldn’t otherwise meet.” Though...
...government outlawed cell phones for the general public shortly after setting up a national network. This year, officials at state-run trading companies were ordered to stop sending e-mails to China and to use faxes instead, apparently because the authorities believe faxes are easier to monitor, according to Kang Chol Hwan, a defector and journalist living in Seoul. Now the regime is pressuring foreign aid workers to leave. "The country seems to be closing," says a Western diplomat. "It is not going in the right direction...