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...DIED. CORPORAL SOK KHAK UNG, 22, U.S. Marine who received a Purple Heart in Iraq and helped in the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch in Nasiriyah in April; after being shot by an unknown assailant at a family cookout 12 days before his scheduled discharge from service; in Long Beach, California. Ung, a Cambodian immigrant, suffered shrapnel wounds in Iraq in early April. "My son is a hero for what he did in Iraq, but for him to die in America like this makes no sense," his mother told the San Francisco Chronicle. Investigators say Ung may have been shot...
...women have been trafficked in Korea since the mid-'90s, but human-rights groups says the real figure is much higher. More than 8,500 foreign women entered Korea last year on "entertainment" visas, mostly Filipinas and Russians. These visas are a tool for international trafficking, says Goh Hyun Ung, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration: "The women don't know they are going to be locked up as soon as they get to clubs and forced into prostitution." Goh says U.S. soldiers sometimes help Filipinas escape from clubs, but most are ignorant of the trafficking. He blames...
...crop of serious coffee shops. Foreign franchises like Starbucks and dozens of local outlets are competing for a market that barely existed two years ago. "People like the idea of walking around with a paper cup, it makes them into something else, maybe a New Yorker," says Ahn Ung Chun, owner of Caffe Italiano in the Seoul suburb of Bundang. "Because it's something new, the demand keeps growing. We are creating the consumers...
...According to Ung-aang Talay, veteran food critic of the Bangkok Post, a tasty nam chim sauce can tip the balance between a good seafood restaurant and a great one. Of the two bustling open-air nighttime eateries on either corner of Soi Phadungdao (a.k.a. Soi Texas) at Yaowaraj in Chinatown, he recommends Rut & Luk on the northwest corner for its "aggressively seasoned" sauce. The restaurant's specialties include tiny mollusks grilled in their shells and whole fish baked in foil with black pepper and garlic. Those looking for something similarly substantial during the day should follow the lunchtime crowds...
...biggest thing is word of mouth," said Richard Ung '01, CityStep's special events producer. "It's a Harvard institution. That, by itself, is advertisement. People will come regardless...