Tibetan Monks Arrested, Monastery Closed After Rare Protest RFA[Tuesday, November 29, 2005 20:06] KATHMANDU - Chinese authorities in Tibet arrested five monks and closed off their monastery amid rare protests against an intensified campaign to crack down on followers of the Dalai Lama, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials took a senior monk, Khenpo Nawang Phelgyal, and four colleagues into custody on Nov. 23 at Drepung monastery in Lhasa, capital of the Chinese-run Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), sources inside China said.
Re-education campaign
The move comes amid a renewed “patriotic education” campaign in recent months aimed at boosting support inside Tibetan Buddhist monasteries for the Chinese government?and at the expense of monks loyal to Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama.
Australian MP Supports the Issue of Tibet TibetNet[Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:53] Dharamshala, November 30 - "The Dalai Lama is not demanding independence for Tibet- he is certainly not demanding the breakup of China", Mr. Michael Danby, MP from Labor Party who attended the 4th World Parliamentarian Convention on Tibet in Edinburgh, said.
Speaking at the Australian Parliament last Monday, he said "the Dalai Lama is demanding no more than that the Tibetan people be allowed local autonomy and control of their own local affairs. This is a right which is actually guaranteed to them under the Chinese constitution, but has been systematically denied to them in practice."
"In fact, of course, the whole Chinese people, all 1.2 billion of them, are being systematically denied the rights which are supposedly guaranteed to them by their own Constitution", he added.
I love Korea to death. 12% (2) I like Korea. Korea is cool! 31% (5) I hate Korea. I wish it disappeared from the face of the earth. 0% (0) I just don't like it. 18% (3) I don't care. 37% (6)
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Asian immigrants at centre of marriage, passport scam in the US Federal authorities say a sophisticated marriage scam in southern California charged foreigners seeking citizenship $60,000 for a mate, and even provided fake wedding photographs, fake tax returns and love letters. Eleven people were arrested in connection with the scam Tuesday, authorities said. Investigators believe the fraud scheme targeted Chinese and Vietnamese nationals. "Marriage fraud is not a new phenomenon but clearly this scheme was one of the most ambitious and creative we've ever encountered," said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Authorities began investigating the alleged ring three years ago after authorities noticed U.S. citizens who were seeking green cards for more than one spouse. The investigation, dubbed Operation Newlywed Game, resulted in 44 indictments on charges of conspiracy, misuse of visas and marriage fraud. Not all have been arrested. Recruiters for the ring allegedly received $1,000 for each U.S. client they found who was willing to participate. The Americans allegedly received $3,000 to $5,000, plus travel expenses, to fly to Vietnam or China for arranged marriages and to apply for visas for their spouses, authorities said. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/family/5437424/detail.html&filter=0
Juan Carlos Torres nacio en la ciudad de Guadalupe (Lambayeque). El sospechoso se cambio el apellido paterno por Pizarro para poder salir del pais, pues cuenta con antecedentes penales por violacion de una menor de edad, delito por el que estuvo preso. Al salir de la carcel intento abusar de otra menor. Luego huyo del Peru y no se supo mas de el. El peruano esta casado con Marlene Yaure con quien tiene dos hijos.
Juan Carlos Torres was born in the city of Guadalupe (Lambayeque). The suspect you change the paternal last name for Pizarro to be able to leave domestic, because it has criminal records under age for violation of a, crime for which prisoner was. When leaving the jail intent to abuse of another smaller one. Then I escape from the Peru and it was not known but of the one. The Peruvian this married one with Marlene Yaure with who has two children
The case has drawn intense scrutiny in Japan, where concerns are high about crimes committed by foreigners. Foreigners commit a tiny percentage of the crimes in Japan, but such cases are used to bolster arguments for tighter controls on immigration.
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Does the presence of incompetent guys alone constitute the problem with foreigners? Rather, the real problem is their nature not to get along with us, isn't it? I am working in a local state university, and their high-handedness is just intolerable. The majority of them do not even learn a simple greeting no matter how long they have lived in Japan, break lab instruments, do not give us back what they borrow from us, and play misunderstanding when protested. Our JDF servicemen who were sent to Iraq had learned the culture of Arabs so as not to cause unwanted troubles there. The foreigners discussed here are on the stark contrast, acting on explicit colonialism. Moreover, they steal our data and achievements, hassle us like handymen when we are busy on our jobs, and even go on to disseminate lab animals' photos as happened in the primate research center in Kyoto. These are not mere nuisance. Rather, we could call it a sabotage to our research activities. If we did the same in their countries, we would surely get sued or busted by police. No wonder that a voice arises "Kick the bastards out!!" Competent or not, I don't want jerks like this. There is no way to cope with them. To protect ourselves, I think it necessary to exchange information as to who the trouble makers are, and how to deal/dealt with them.
「Report」をクリックしてTicketを送信。 The title "Anti-Asian" is wrong because the books which mentioned on the N.Y.Times article were only about China and Korea. Veroah intended to make it sounded like that Japanese hate all Asians. Asia is not only China and Korea.
The title "Anti-Asian" is wrong because the books mentioned on the N.Y.Times article discussed the problems with China and Korea only. Veroah intended to make it sound like that Japanese hate all Asians. Asia does not consist of only China and Korea, nor they are the representatives of all the Asian countries.
JETプログラム参加者の日記から大西のNYTの記事について ttp://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=rosechyld I cannot believe the way Japan is refusing to teach future generations about what happened during WWII...still. It's sick. The idiot conservatives are already making relations with China and Korea bad, and now they are fucking things up for the future too. As much as I love this country, part of me really wants to see China and South Korea continue kicking Japan's ass economically.
>>119 ウリは「在日としては」JTには登録していないので、誰か代わりにレスつけてくれニダ。 I just remembered a Korean noodle that I had in Seoul two years ago. Its hot soup with dog meat stock had a rich flavour. I loved it very much. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the restaurant's name and don't have a Korean friend. Do you have a Korean friend? レスが付いたら、ここに貼って欲しいです。お礼はSuper-Xを10枚ニダよ!
It shocks me to hear the hostilities coming from South Koreans regarding the United States. Growing up in Japan I lived in a Korean area and most Japanese Koreans were sympathetic to North Korea and attended North Korean schools. Also, most money North Korea gets comes from Japanese Koreans in Japan. All I ever heard these people do was complain. Mostly about the US and Japan. Today young Koreans protest the US, defalcate the Statue of Mac Arthur and dream of joining the North in reunification.
ハゲロアは宇宙船間ヤマトをよく知らない。 Sounds good to me. Wasn't Japan's most famous TV cartoon of the 1970s 「宇宙戦艦ヤマト」, based on the name of a real Japanese WW2 warship, in which the Japanese crew fly into space and battle aliens with blonde hair and blue skin, with names that sound exactly the same as US Navy admirals of WW2? http://forum.japantoday.com/Chinese_camera_names%2C_WTF%3F/m_610651/tm.htm
13 Koreans arrested after crossing into U.S. Thursday, December 1, 2005
Vancouver -- The U.S. Border Patrol arrested 13 Korean adults as they attempted to jump a security fence guarding the Canadian border near Osoyoos, B.C., Tuesday, Vancouver radio station CKNW reported.
After being dropped off on the Canadian side, the seven women and six men made a run for it, hopped the fence, and climbed into a truck on the U.S. side that was driven by a Canadian driver.
A short time later, the group was arrested by U.S. authorities, and may face charges related to human smuggling.
The text on the inadmissibility of practices leading to contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance -- also approved by a recorded vote -- expressed deep concern over the glorification of the Nazi past and former members of the Waffen SS organization, through monuments, memorials and public demonstrations. It called on an end to such practices, noting that they did injustice to the memory of the victims of crimes against humanity committed during World War II, were incompatible with the United Nations Charter and democratic values, and encouraged the spread of various extremist political parties and groups. The vote was 97 in favour to 4 against, with 63 abstentions (Annex I).
TOKYO (AP) - In one book, crazed Chinese communist guerrillas spray benevolent Japanese troops with cyanide. In another, savage Korean immigrants massacre innocent Tokyo residents in the wake of World War II.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5439312/detail.html A 24-year-old man wanted for targeting young adults with "hard-luck" stories and getting them to give him money and jewelry has been arrested, police said Wednesday. West Los Angeles patrol officers recognized Luca Ripa, 24, from a recent crime bulletin photo when they saw him commit a traffic violation and arrested him, according to Los Angeles Police Department Detective Lt. Luis Topete. Ripa was booked for suspicion of grand theft. The scam involved the suspect telling victims various "hard-luck" stories, then persuading them to take him to banks and stores, according to a Nov. 17 Los Angeles Police Department statement. The victims gave the suspect thousands of dollars and bought clothing and jewelry for him, the statement said. Police said he most recently convinced two good Samaritans that his girlfriend had stolen all his credit cards and he could not get back to Italy. The two victims were a woman and a foreign exchange student, who was videotaping the conversation. Ripa asked them for hundreds of dollars in cash, while often looking uncomfortably at the camera and claiming he could not speak English very well. The man and woman made a withdrawal from an ATM machine and gave Ripa $200. Detectives told NBC4 that Ripa has conned at least nine victims in West Los Angeles, two in Koreatown and one in the Venice area. His modus operandi, police said, is to walk up to Asian men and tell his story of hardship. Ripa convinced some victims to buy him Rolex watches and Louis Vuitton bags, even bilking one victim out of $10,000, detectives said. Other con artists also have been striking throughout Los Angeles in the past few months. Police say teams of burglars have pretended to be department of water and power workers or pet owners searching for a lost cat. One team even brings a small child.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051204/NEWS01/512040404/1008 Sunday, December 4, 2005 Massage parlor prosecution is a costly affair Trials' cost may top $1 million; cases also are full of animosity The judge, the lawyers and even some bailiffs and court clerks have said it has been the most unusual court proceeding they've been involved with. It also might be the most expensive and time-consuming.
Louisville's decade-long fight against massage parlor prostitution is expected to culminate early next year with a series of six trials to begin in February. Together, the cases are expected to take more than a year and a half at an estimated $60,000 per trial, according to the trial judge.
Jefferson Circuit Judge Thomas Wine has said the cost of the criminal syndication trials could exceed $1 million, depending on such factors as how many interpreters are needed for the defendants, most of whom don't speak English. The predominant language among the defendants is Korean.
>>179 悪い人じゃないけど少なくとも日本のフォーラムでモデレータやるにはあまりに無知jamaica? http://forum.japantoday.com/Does_Asia_consist_of_only_China_and_Korea%3F/m_659222/tm.htm Let me see if I've got it right and hopefully, you'll be gentle in your help. Is the shrine that appears to bother so many people dedicated only to those who died in the second world war? Is it honoring the dead or the war dead? Is this really a concern with citizens or just the governments? Thanks for the education.
Ha Jeong Kim, 20, her sister, Bun A. Kim, 17, both of Ridgefield, and an unidentified woman who is believed to be from Korea died in the accident, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said in a statement.
Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Hong Sik Kim, 20, of Palisades Park lost control of his Nissan Maxima, crossed the double yellow line and struck a westbound Honda Accord just east of Bergen Turnpike, Molinelli said. The Maxima then landed on top of a Toyota Camry, which also was traveling westbound, the Prosecutor's Office said. Little Ferry police charged Jung Hee Kim with driving while intoxicated
The unidentified woman, who was the front-seat passenger, was given "life-saving efforts," which were unsuccessful, the Prosecutor's Office said. Authorities believe she was 20 years old and was visiting the Kims from Korea. All three women were pronounced dead at the scene. Each woman carried ID in her purse, not on her body, making identification difficult initially, Molinelli said. The third woman carried only an international driver's license from Korea(>>190?9, he said.
The driver of the Camry, Jung Hee Kim of Little Ferry, and the driver of the Accord, David A. Vargas of Bloomfield, were both taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in stable condition, the Prosecutor's Office said. A section of Route 46 in Little Ferry was closed for 12 hours Saturday
正論だな、まともな奴もいるんだな。 http://www.ikjeld.com/japannews/00000273.php#comments I find it interesting to read your comments about this apparent zenophobia. but please be aware that you have now learned what life is like on the other side of the coin. every country in the world has this behaviour to one degree or another, and I still beleive it is moderate in Japan. Do you remember after 9/11 how an Indian guy was lynched in Texas because he just looked like he was from that part of the world? Even in a small remote country like New Zealand I know many Japanese who feel uncomfortable sometimes, due to old animosities, and also Germans who also feel the same in most English speaking countries. I experienced that myself in Japan when I couldnt stay at my girlfriends mothers house because I was " a foreigner. What would the neighbours think?" So please relax guys, its all quite natural for this to happen. Xenophobia will be around as long as people look different (there's one positve argument for cloning now!) You only need to be afraid when the lynch mobs are running around your streets. Hopefully you will see the signs well before then, but I would say this is fairly minor.
Chinese Merchants Penetrate Korean Consumer Market
Flushing Korean Stores lose 20% of revenue during the last two years “Chinese merchants are penetrating Korean consumer markets rapidly. Korean customers are flocking to Chinese stores ranging from banks, clothing stores, and general stores because of the lower pricing policy. Chinese companies are targeting especially the Flushing Korean market that is the largest consumer market in the area.
IOC chief defends hosts Beijing International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has defended Beijing's right to host the 2008 Games. But Rogge said he will investigate reports that China's child gymnasts and swimmers are being mistreated.
前置きがその後の内容を暗示して余りある。w TOKYO (AP) - In one book, crazed Chinese communist guerrillas spray benevolent Japanese troops with cyanide. In another, savage Korean immigrants massacre innocent Tokyo residents in the wake of World War II.
>>243 We here at JBOX.com are dedicated to bringing Japan and the West closer through shared popular culture. We have great respect for Japan and want to bring Japanese culture, in whatever form we may, to the world, and provide a bridge between the two cultures. Thanks for checking out our site.
Court hears broke tourists turn to prostitution ABC Online, Australia - Dec 5, 2005 Two Korean women holidaying in Toowoomba, in southern Queensland, could be deported after pleading guilty to prostitution offences. Misun Yu, 27, and Hyun Kyung Lee, 33, appeared in Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to knowingly participating in prostitution.
The U.S. won't lift sanctions against North Korea because the country is run by a ``criminal regime'' that exports weapons and smuggles drugs, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea said.
North Korea's government said it won't return to talks aimed at dismantling the country's nuclear weapons program unless the U.S. lifts sanctions against North Korean companies allegedly engaging in illegal activities, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said on Dec. 3.
``What we have to remember is that North Korea is a criminal regime,'' U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Alexander Vershbow told reporters from South Korean media during a breakfast seminar in downtown Seoul. ``We cannot lift sanctions when North Korea is exporting dangerous weapons and smuggling drugs.''
* UNBORN BABIES SOLD FOR FOOD A female doctor told reporters from Eastern Express that doctors regularly take aborted babies home to eat as dietary supplements. She gave ten aborted babies, the size of an adult thumb, to the reporters, who pretended to be ill. The reporters learned that some hospitals and clinics, such as the Shenzhen Health Center of Women and Children, provide unborn babies free of charge, while others sell them. (CNCR)
Re "Pointless Provocation in Tokyo" (editorial, Oct. 18), about Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine:
Mr. Koizumi's visit was not to worship the Class A war criminals who were given the verdict of guilty by the International Tribunal for the Far East, to glorify Japan's past militarism, or to accommodate right-wing nationalists.
His purpose, as he clearly stated, was to mourn the war dead, to appreciate their sacrifices that helped to make Japan's peace and prosperity possible today, and to renew his vow for peace. These were his sole intentions.
Prime Minister Koizumi has expressed his heartfelt apology for Japan's wartime aggression, which caused tremendous suffering to the people of many countries, particularly those of neighboring Asian countries.
Hiroyasu Ando Ambassador and Consul General of Japan New York, Oct. 24, 2005
The cover story in the new issue of Newsweek Japan focuses on 「日本を誤訳するアメリカ」- "The America that Mistranslates Japan." The editors ask over a picture of 「SAYURI」 http://pliink.com/mt/marxy/
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/12/06/200512060027.asp Human organ brokers arrested Police arrested two Korean brokers yesterday for arranging illegal transplants of human organs in China. Police also said that they are searching for another broker based in China in cooperation with Interpol. The brokers, only identified by their surnames Chang and Kim, were taken into custody on suspicion of procuring three Korean cancer patients for organ transplants. They are believed to have received a total of 180 million won ($175,000) from the patients. They advertised kidney or liver transplants in Chinese hospitals on two websites since 2003. Patients suffered various side effects after the operations. "I couldn't help but go to China because there are too many patients waiting for transplants in Korea," a 68-year old patient, who is now under medical treatment at a local hospital, told police.
Police are investigating other possible cases because the number of members registered with the two websites exceeds 5,200 since it opened last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/international/asia/08japan.ready.html Japan Must Show 'Deep Remorse' for Wartime Actions, Official Says The visits are "rubbing salt to the wounds, scratching the old wounds so they would not heal," said Ra Jong Yil, South Korea's ambassador to Japan.
Last week, Wang Yi, China's ambassador to Japan, evoked a similar image, saying to foreign reporters: "If the top leader of the land visits the shrine, that hurts people in victim countries, reviving their memories. It's like pouring salt in open wounds."
前にワシントでのロビイング活動の為の国家予算が幾らって記事あっったけど、チョンのロビイング何気に激しみたいだね! Rep. Henry J. Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, sent a letter of protest to Japan's ambassador to the United States, Ryozo Kato. The shrine has become a "symbol of unresolved disputes over the war atrocities during World War II and militarism demonstrated in the Pacific War," wrote Mr. Hyde, who joined the Navy in 1944, served in the South Pacific and saw combat in the Philippines. "Yasukuni Shrine is also dedicated to war criminals in World War II. I feel uncomfortable with Japanese government officials paying repeated visits to the shrine."
"The failure of the U.S. to speak out on this issue" has "translated into increased ill will against Washington, especially from its other key East Asia ally, South Korea," Ralph A. Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies in Hawaii, wrote Wednesday in an Internet essay. Mr. Cossa suggested that Mr. Koizumi should give up going to the shrine, while the leaders of China, South Korea and Japan should agree on school books to teach a mutually acceptable version of Asian history of the first half of the 20th century.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05120504.html BEIJING, December 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) ? Chinese officials have admitted to selling the organs of executed prisoners to foreign transplant recipients.
http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138459&tid=apjapaniraq&sid=37138459&mid=478 > IRAQIS MAY NOW KILL ANY JAPANESE > by: solomonl02 12/08/05 12:04 am > Msg: 478 of 480 > > Because their soldiers have now INVADED Iraq. The Japanese soldiers are NOT welcome and they have never been invited. They are but puppets and sidekicks of the Americans. > > It must be accepted that the Japanese invasion of Iraq is WAR CRIME no matter how the claim otherwise. > > Therefore as an armed enemy of Iraq, Iraqi Patriots have full and unquestionable right to kill any Japanese wherever they are found. The Iraqis who do so are immune from any prosecution because they are exercising their sovereign right.
>>284 Re: Iraq aska Japan............... by: solomonl02 12/04/05 03:47 am Msg: 468 of 480
Iraq did not because the Iraqi government is illegitimate.
The Americans bribed the Jap government to send troops against the expressed wishes of the Japanese people.
Now if any Iraqi/Muslim/Chinese/Korean executes any Jap, it'll be justified execution. Why? Because Japan has violated the demand of unconditional surrender in WWII..
Memoirs of a Geisha - Review - Movies - New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/movies/09geis.html > Once upon a time in Japan, some women were in the service of procreation, > others were employed for recreational sex, while > the geisha operated in that gray area in between.
Dec. 1, 2005 When murder hits the blogosphere Personal sites suddenly very public in aftermath of Pennsylvania killing While public access to Kara's and David's blogs was eventually restricted, it was already too late. Voyeuristic Web users flooded the sites with disturbing messages offering their take on events. Friends' blogs invaded, too
Are we witnessing a “mini tsunami” of Japanese influence in American culture? With the recent release of Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, and The Last Samurai, Japan has been showcased in more 2003 American films than any other foreign country. From Issey Miyake’s fashion empire to the culinary theatrics of the Iron Chefs, Japan’s cultural influence has permeated virtually every aspect of American daily life. Join our panel as they examine Japanese cultural influence over the past year and its impact on “Generation Y” in both the US and Japan.
>>301 829 :おさかなくわえた名無しさん :2005/12/08(木) 14:35:52 ID:w6tDe1KJ >>809 どうやら在日外人が著作権無視でコピーして字幕つけたのが出所みたいダニ ttp://bigdaikon.org/board/viewtopic.php?p=1016844 I ripped it off a DVD called Video Victim (I think), which was a collection of music videos and stuff from some well known director, whose name I also forget. It's totally Japanese though, so interesting to see a self parody. It was also clearly aimed at a Japanese audience too, as there were no subtitles originally - I had to add them myself.
.And then a bunch of us went bowling afterwards, which was the first time I learned that some of my Japanese colleagues who couldn't be bothered to speak to me at work were in fact decent people.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_882417.php Friday, December 9, 2005 2 pedestrians killed in Stanton by speeding driver Man is arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Two pedestrians were instantaneously killed early this morning when a man suspected of driving drunk sped through a red light and struck the men in the street, authorities said. The driver tried to flee the scene after hitting the men at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Chapman Avenue, but was stopped by two witnesses about a fourth of a mile away from the scene, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. The witnesses followed the suspect on Beach Boulevard. There, they boxed in the driver, ☆Ji Yung Jung, 28, of Garden Grove, with their vehicles.
Jung remained in his car, a 2005 Honda Civic with paper plates, and was apprehended by authorities, Amormino said. Jung is believed to have been driving southbound on Beach Boulevard at a speed of more than 60 mph when he hit the men. The two victims were thrown more than 100 feet, Amormino said. They died instantly. Jung was arrested on suspicion of vehicle manslaughter while intoxicated, Amormino said. 動画 http://nbc4la.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=705482 ☆Ji Yung Jung, 28, of Garden Grove 市長が妄言「コリアンは消えてなくなる」 ガーデングローブ市のブルース・ブロードウォーター市長による発言が、在米コリアン社会で問題になっている。 http://www.asc-net.or.jp/gknj/news/1998-08.html#No.02
51 :名無シネマ@上映中 :2005/12/10(土) 03:02:13 ID:8R8vkBdx http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ 76% Chronicles of Narnia: The Li... 86% The World's Fastest Indian 81% Brokeback Mountain 67% Mrs. Henderson Presents 31% Memoirs of a Geisha
The foreign press remarks on a "touching scene", as over a 1,000 women line up to offer their egg cells up for research use, in a show of support for Prof. Hwang Woo-suk. The gathered women chant "stay strong" and chase an MBC reporter who has shown up to cover the event.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/international/asia/10china.html?ei=5094&en=c881f50f6c75fedd&hp=&ex=1134190800&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1134208545-Rs3WMzirw5NHQY91gRLgNg Protesters Say Police in China Killed Up to 20 By HOWARD W. FRENCH Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said Friday that as many as 20 people were killed by the paramilitary police this week, in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests roiling the Chinese countryside. Villagers said as many as 50 other residents remained unaccounted for since the shootings on Tuesday. It was the largest known use of force by security personnel against citizens since the killings around Tiananmen Square in 1989. That death toll is still unknown, but is estimated to have been in the hundreds.
>>362 少しぐらい引用してね。URLだけだとスルーされるよ。 Asia's new map lacks U.S. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The United States will not take part in next week's East Asia summit, but, to paraphrase a former secretary of state's phrase about the Balkan wars, the Americans most certainly have a dog in this fight.
There is a fight under way at the summit, albeit a polite and diplomatic tussle. The Japanese, with discreet but potent American backing, have already ensured that the original plan of the former Malaysian premier for a purely Asian summit was blocked. Australia and New Zealand will now be taking part in the forum, to the fury of the still-influential Mahathir Mohammed. http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051208-125752-4817r
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Neo-Nazis Rally in Ohio Without Violence TOLEDO, Ohio - Members of a neo-Nazi group staged a rally at City Hall on Saturday, two months after plans for an earlier march set off a four-hour riot in which a mob attacked businesses and police.
Juche means self-reliance in Korean. The Juche Idea, introduced by legendary North Korean president Kim Il-Sung after the Korean War, became a guiding light for this socialist country’s development.
Chandigarh, December 11: NORTH Korea’s Ambassador to India, Han Chang On, is keen on spreading the reach of this Eastern-Asian nation’s basic governing philosophical idea of Juche in India. He would inaugurate the Himachal Pradesh Juche Study Centre in Shimla, the 21st such centre in India, on Monday.
SNU Agrees to Investigate Hwang Seoul National University has decided to get to the bottom of controversy surrounding stem cell research by cloning pioneer Prof. Hwang Woo-suk. SNU on Sunday said Hwang telephoned Roe Jung-hye, the dean of SNU’s Office of Research Affairs, to ask her for an investigation. An emergency meeting of the university’s executive board accepted Hwang's request, with the scope of the investigation and procedures to be announced at an 11 a.m. press conference on Monday. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200512/200512110016.html
Activists and defectors at a Seoul conference on North Korean human rights violations said the South's policy of engagement with the North had failed. A UN resolution passed last month accused North Korea of "widespread and grave" abuses of human rights. They included torture, executions and extensive forced labour, it said. Under its so-called Sunshine Policy, South Korea has sought to improve economic ties with the North, preferring to engage with its neighbour rather than reprimand it. But the highest ranking official ever to defect from North Korea, Hwang Jang-yop, told the conference that the South was home to apologists for the North as a result of North Korean propaganda.
"We have people who choose to defend the North and oppose the United States only from hearing what [North Korean leader] Kim Jong-il and his group say," he said. "This is a disgrace."
Thousands of N.Korean sex slaves in China: US official
BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of North Korean refugees are working as sex slaves in China under threat of being returned should Chinese authorities catch them, the U.S. ambassador for fighting international slavery said on Friday. After two days of talks with Chinese officials, John Miller, director of the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, said many victims of the modern-day slave trade were women and girls forced into prostitution or marriage.
"Sometimes they're trafficked out of North Korea. North Korean officials are complicit," Miller told reporters. "If they are caught by the Chinese authorities, they are sent back to North Korea and punished."
Seoul (dpa) - A South Korean man died from exhaustion after spending days on end playing computer games, the second such case in under six months, Korean television reported Friday.
The 38-year-old spent 10 days playing online computer games in an Internet cafe in the coastal city of Incheon, before collapsing from exhaustion in front of the computer screen on Thursday evening after a 31-hour-long uninterrupted session.
モデレータから来たPM Recently it has come to the attention of the JT moderation and administration staff that some of the posts you have made referring to non-English language news articles do not reflect the true content of those articles.
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Hilosima 15-y.o. Says He Will Rape 36 Women Kyoto Pervert Chokes 6-y.o. Girl Vaguely Racist Anti-Crime Posters Put up in Tokyo Women With Fat Thighs Have Less Heart Disease Group Suicide Kills Innocent Bystander
Park and his three brothers were charged with siphoning more than $30 million in funds from Doosan subsidiaries and other affiliate firms.
Accounting fraud They were also accused of involvement in accounting fraud that inflated company sales by about US$270 million.
Prosecutors decided not to arrest the brothers, however.
Park, 65, is president of the International Judo Federation, a post that gives him automatic IOC membership.
The IOC said it was not suspending Park "seeing as there have been no measures of protection, nor any judicial decision taken by the Korean legal authorities concerning him.
Sydney erupts in second night of riots The Sydney suburbs have erupted in a second night of racially-charged violence which has exposed ugly tensions beneath Australia's good-humoured exterior. Local media reported a "terrifying escalation" in the conflict, as 70 car loads of Lebanese youths arrived in the predominantly white suburb of Cronulla - the flashpoint for yesterday's running battles - intent on revenge. Around 600 people, some armed with pistols and crowbars and summoned by mobile phone text message, gathered to confront one another on Maroubra Beach, in a mainly white suburb to the south of the city. Around 30 people were injured, including a man of Arab appearance who was stabbed in the back during the fighting. At least 16 arrests were made as police fought back with batons and pepper spray. Elsewhere, about 300 people of Arab descent demonstrated against Sunday's attack outside one of Sydney's largest mosques, Lakemba, amid tight police security. Surrounding roads were blocked and iron bars seized as police tried to prevent the protestors from making their way to the fighting on Maroubra beach. Tensions between youths of Arabic and Middle Eastern descent and white Australians have, however, been rising in recent years with anti-Muslim sentiment fuelled by the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, in October 2002. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1922449,00.html http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://news.ft.com/cms/s/14330a92-6afd-11da-8aee-0000779e2340.html
NEW DELHI China has succeeded in putting the spotlight on Japan's World War II history. But while harping on that distant war, Beijing refuses to face up to its own aggressions and employs revisionist history to rationalize its assertive claims and ambitions.With fervent nationalism replacing Communist ideology, the scripted anti-Japanese mob protests earlier this year were one blatant case of the Chinese rulers' open mixing of history with their politics. Another case in point occurred more recently at a seminar in Mumbai, after Pranab Mukherjee, the Indian defense minister, fleetingly cited the Chinese invasion of 1962 as a defining moment that set in motion India's new thrust on defense production, and referred to the still-festering border problem with China, which he said had resolved its land-frontier disputes "with all its neighbors except India and Bhutan."In contravention of diplomatic norms, which would have involved consulting the Chinese ambassador in New Delhi, China's Mumbai-based consul general castigated Mukherjee on the spot for using the term "invasion" and claimed that "China did not invade India." Later, the ambassador, too, criticized Mukherjee's reference to 1962, telling the Indian media, "Whatever happened in the past is history, and we want to put it back into history." The incident revealed how China contradictorily deals in history vis-・vis its neighbors to further its own foreign policy objectives: While it wants India to forget 1962, it misses no opportunity to bash Japan over the head with the history card. Its aim is not to extract more apologies from Tokyo for its World War II atrocities but to continually shame and tame Japan. (It is ironic that visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao used Indian soil last April to demand that Japan "face up to history squarely," setting the stage for his country's orchestrated anti-Japanese protests.)
Another way China manipulates history is by reconstructing the past to prepare for the future. This was illustrated by the Chinese foreign ministry's posting on its Web site last year a revised historical claim that the ancient kingdom of Koguryo, founded in northern Korea, was Chinese. This was seen as an attempt to hedge China's options with a potentially unified Korea. Then there is China's continued use of what it presents as history to advance extravagant territorial or maritime claims. Its maps show an entire Indian state - Arunachal Pradesh - as well as other Indian areas as part of China.
While the Chinese-Japanese rivalry has deep roots, dating back to the 16th century, the Chinese and Indian military frontiers met for the first time in history only in 1950, when China annexed (or as its history books say, "liberated") Tibet, a buffer nearly the size of Western Europe. Within 12 years of becoming India's neighbor, China invaded this country, with Mao Zedong cleverly timing the aggression with the Cuban missile crisis. Beijing has yet to grasp that a muscular approach is counterproductive. Had it not set out to "teach India a lesson, " in the words of then Premier Zhou Enlai, this country probably would not have become the significant military and nuclear power that it is today. The invasion helped lay the foundation of India's political rise. This has a reflection today. Just a decade ago, Beijing was content with a Japan that was pacifist, China-friendly and China's main source of low-interest loans. Now, it is locked in a cold war with Tokyo, with its growing assertiveness and ambition spurring a politically resurgent Japan.
Even the Chinese consul general's outburst has counterproductively returned the focus onto an invasion that Beijing wishes to eliminate from public discussion and about which it hides the truth from its own people. The impertinence only draws attention to the fact that China remains unapologetic for the major stab in the back that shattered India's pacifism and hastened the death of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Japan certainly needs to come to terms with its brutal militaristic past. But just as Japanese textbooks and the museum attached to the Yasukuni Shrine glorify Japan's past, Chinese textbooks and the military museum in Beijing distort and even falsify history. The key difference is that Chinese foreign policy seeks to make real the legend that drives official history - China's centrality in the world.
Shikabe Journal Japan Loves Its Little Villages, but Wants Fewer of Them
By JAMES BROOKE Published: December 13, 2005
SHIKABE, Japan - Perched on the edge of the Pacific Ocean on the shores of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost large island, Shikabe is the timeless image of a maritime village, defined by the cry of gulls, the wash of waves on sea walls and the sight of fishing boats rocking in the distant swell.
In this version (spoiler alert), the husband's violence was triggered by his discovery of his wife's diary, in which she had written about her obsessive love for an American professor (Bill Pullman) who didn't even know she existed. This means that the foreigners are responsible for this terrible curse. I really think this is another example of Japanese xenophobia, as the Japanese do tend to blame foreigners for pretty much anything they can. Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro, well known for his racist comments, blamed an increase in crime on those nasty foreigners inhabiting his city.
本日のveroahスレ Runaway Girl Found Inside Own Home Pervert Cop Sentenced to 20 Years for Abductions 1 out of 10 Schoolchildren Have Scoliosis School Textbook to Describe Hilosima as "Land of Emigres"
The members of the National Assembly expressed their shock and alarm when the Haa chimi informed the house that the Chinese were building motor roads across the international border and into Bhutanese territory… 中国(チベット地域)との国境で、中国人たちが国境を越えて 自動車道を建設していることについて議会のブータンメンバーたちはショックと警告を表明し た。
An agreement was signed yesterday afternoon to turn the former house of a German national who helped save the lives of more than 250,000 people in the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-38 into a memorial hall and research center.
画像有り よくこんなキモイ朝鮮女とやる気が出るよな? http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Dec/20051212News003.asp Published Monday, December 12, 2005 Prostitution investigation snares four Sheriff’s office says VIP Sauna sells sex. Semsettin Gogebakan, 45, and his wife, Ok Hee Kim, 44, both of 5210 N. Highway 763, were arrested on suspicion of promoting prostitution and released from the Boone County Jail after each posted a bond of $4,500. Soung Auk Kim, 44, of Flushing, N.Y., and Myeon Ok Kim, 33, of the streets of Columbia were arrested on suspicion of prostitution and released from jail after posting bonds of $500 each.
The only people in the business at the time of the search were those arrested, the detective said. He added that Ok Hee Kim is an illegal alien of Korean descent and that her husband, who also has a home in Catonsville, Md., is a naturalized American citizen from Turkey. The citizenship of the women arrested on suspicion of prostitution, also of Korean descent, is still under investigation, but Luntsford said, "Most likely they’re illegals." Yong Min of Lacey, Wash., owns the property, public records show.
Medicaid is a welfare program, enacted as a safety net for the poor and indigent. But the program has grown to care for over 46 million Americans and now legal and illegal individuals at a cost of $338 billion, for FY 2006.
Last year an elderly Korean man was admitted to the ICU, thank GOD this was not my wife’s patient. The man had TB and ended up dying from it a couple of days later. Didn’t we eradicate TB 40 years ago? Would you want your wife exposed to TB? [As a note from this journalist--illegal alien migration has brought 16,000 new cases of tuberculosis into this country in the past five years and it is spreading because illegals work in fast-food, construction and they stand in line at the movies, grocery and retail stores. Their kids go to your kids’ schools. Thus, you and your family are at risk everywhere you go. The average illegal alien will infect from 10 to 50 Americans with TB depending on public contact.]
>>528は米、これは豪、世界中での次世代慰安婦工作が盛んだなwww しかもザパーニズ工作してるし、豪州の売春サイトで日本人を語ってる女って、 全部チョンじゃん、チョン! 過去スレで幾つかのサイト貼ったけど、どう見ても全部チョン女だったじゃん。 マジで氏ねよ糞チョン! http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=77370 Police investigate prostitution claims Ninemsn, Australia Wednesday Dec 14 Police are investigating allegations Asian crime rings are bringing young Japanese women to Queensland to work illegally as prostitutes. The Queensland Police Service's Prostitution Enforcement Task Force Unit said it was investigating claims that Japanese women were being brought to the state - some under force - on tourist visas. The Sunshine Coast Daily alleged that young Japanese women were regularly being brought into Queensland on three month tourist visas to work as prostitutes.
Some women were allegedly being forced to work and returned home shortly before their visas expired, the newspaper said.
The number of advertisements, in the paper's personal services section, promoting young Japanese women had risen in recent months, with most claiming to be in their late teens or early 20s.
The Koreans like to pretend to be Japanese, so that is another aspect that sets the Korean massage parlor apart from Chinese or American massage parlors. Korean massage businesses may portray themselves as Japenese spas, and may adorn the property with waterfalls and Zen gardens, and wear the colorful embroidery of the Japanese traditions.
所で、記事開けて全部読んだのか? The allegations follow an incident in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, where two Korean women pleaded guilty to prostitution offences last week. で記事を〆てるんだけど。
Police are investigating allegations Asian crime rings are bringing young Japanese women to Queensland to work illegally as prostitutes. The Sunshine Coast Daily alleged that young Japanese women were regularly being brought into Queensland on three month tourist visas to work as prostitutes.
>>571 私はただ、ホームページに「This site contains lots of whines and moanings about Japan, therefore Japanese should not view these things.」というメッセージを載せたらどうですかという 提案をしてみただけ。
Abercrombie & Fitch Cancels Japan Expansion Woman Loses $10,000 in Cash Todai Graduate Students in Poverty Kids Teach Grownups How to use PC Chinese PLA Battles North Korean Bandits, 1 Dies Mr. Gorilla Schoolteacher Beats Hell Out of Foul Mouthed Student 200,000 Personal Alarms to be Distributed to Children Buddhist Temple loses $10 Million in Bad Loans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4525268.stm A French far-right member of the European Parliament has been stripped of his immunity, so he can face trial for remarks about the Holocaust. Bruno Gollnisch made comments about the use of Nazi gas chambers and the number of Jews killed during World War II at a news conference in October 2004.
The EU assembly voted to remove his diplomatic immunity, saying the remarks were made in a personal capacity.
He is number two behind Jean-Marie Le Pen in the National Front Party.
Mr Gollnisch is due to face trial at a court in Lyon in May 2006 on a charge of contesting the existence of crimes against humanity.
In October 2004, Mr Gollnisch told a news conference he did not contest the "hundreds of thousands, the millions of deaths" during the Holocaust, but added: "As to the way those people died, a debate should take place."
He also said he did not deny the existence of deadly gas chambers, but that historians should debate this too.
His comments outraged Jewish and anti-racism groups, and he was suspended for five years from the Jean Moulin University in Lyon where he taught law and Japanese
The suit filed on behalf of nearly 60,000 out-of-state college students from 19 states claims California circumvented federal law in 2002, granting resident status to illegal aliens for tuition purposes at California's public colleges, including the University of California and California State University systems. Nine students brought the suit, which seeks to repeal the 2002 law that saves illegal immigrant students between $10,000 to $20,000 a year in out-of-state fees.
"It's pretty ridiculous how much more we pay," U.C. Davis student and Hawaii native Chaning Jang said. "They are giving these kind of tuition kickbacks to illegal immigrants that are not even going to work here when they are done with college."
Driver too old for Korean Embassy WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A former driver for the Korean Embassy in New Zealand believes he has been a victim of age discrimination. Allan Wooller, now 58, says he was told that his annual contract would not be renewed, the Wellington Dominion Post reported. He resigned after finding a place to live and a position as a part-time handyman.
Ambassador Jung Seung-Chin told the newspaper that the embassy does not employ Koreans over the age of 55 as chauffeurs because of the demands of the job.
Age discrimination is illegal under New Zealand law. While embassies are supposed to abide by the local rules, they cannot legally be charged with discrimination.
To qualify for the visa waiver, South Korean applicants for U.S. visas must not surpass a 3 percent rejection rate -- down from 3.2 percent at present -- and the country must take steps to prevent its citizens from working illegally in the United States or committing visa fraud.
If South Korea meets these conditions, its citizens will be allowed to enter the United States for business or pleasure and remain up to 90 days without a visa.
There are currently 27 countries on the U.S. visa waiver list, which must all adopt biometric passports by Oct. 26 next year to retain the privilege. In Asia, only Australia, Japan and Brunei are currently on the list.
U.S. News & World Report - Dec 3, 2005 In the 1970s, South Korean businessman Tongsun Park, with Korean intelligence officials, helped funnel money to lawmakers in an effort to gain support for South Korea. Park faced more than 30 counts of conspiracy, bribery, and fraud (charges later dropped as part of a plea agreement). Several members of Congress were hauled before ethics committees, and some were charged in criminal proceedings. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051212/12congress.htm
The Kimchi Women of Yamagata Province Quite a number of couples happily settle in, but about 30 percent end up in a failed marriage, so they either return to Korea or wander around in entertainment districts in big cities like Tokyo. Even long before the Korean Wave started in Japan, while Korean women have been selling kimchi in a competitive manner, kimchi was the locals’everyday side dish in the Yamagata Prefecture. In late autumn, they hold “Kimchi Festivals.”
Kim said, Some Korean women would just dream they would be rich in Japan anywhere they go, but having such a dream would end up in failure,” adding, “For one, you have meet the right person, and then you need to learn about Japanese culture and their lifestyles before coming here.”
Shortly after the 1997 financial crisis, there were increasing cases where Korean divorced women went to Japan with their children. Recently, ethnic Korean women in China get married in Korea, receive Korean citizenship, and then go to Japan as “Korean brides.”
As fraud cases concerning international marriages between Japanese and Koreans increase, brokers are expanding their scope to neighboring regions, such as Iwate and Akida. At first Japanese men preferred Korean women who are comparatively similar-looking than other ethic groups, but now women from China and the Philippines seem to be more popular.
Nito Haruko (Japanese name, 55), who successfully settled in Japan 14 years ago with her Japanese husband, said, “Living in rural areas of Japan, I realize Koreans should not look down upon brides from southeastern countries and show warmth to them.”
As for the Congo, Vincent, I don't think Belgium has had its own debate. I lived in Belgium until the mid-90s, and there was little sense that Congo history was a national shame. I heard more than once about the "good" Belgium had done there. It was a sad echo of the bullshit excuses one hears in Japan about how Japanese troops "liberated" their Asian brothers.
今日のハゲスレ College Students to Watch Schoolkids TROPICAL EUROPE? ARCTIC AFRICA? Do-Gooder Artist Donates Oil Painting to Uganda Kyoto Forms Citizen Canine Brigade Tochigi Tries Israeli Style Landscaping Kansai Dialect Endangered
S Korea cloning success 'faked' By Charles Scanlon BBC News, Seoul Dr Hwang has been hailed as a hero in South Korea A South Korean cloning pioneer has reportedly admitted fabricating some of the results of his ground-breaking work on human embryos.
>>633 November 4, 2005 I nearly went ballistic during the English Department meeting this morning, which Mark and I had to attend in order to discuss corrections to the English entrance exam the school will administer to prospective high school students in January. A Japanese English teacher had written up the test, then all four Americans had made their corrections, and the point of the meeting was to discuss those corrections the Japanese had questions about or wanted to change. It drove me insane to listen to the teachers say over and over, "We can't make this change because the students won't understand it" when the original sentence was just so clearly wrong. The other favorite excuse for employing incorrect grammar was because "this is what we teach in Japan." How is that even remotely legitimate? Just because the Japanese teach it a certain way doesn't make that way right! It was truly embarrassing to watch the Japanese English teachers sit there and struggle with English grammar, since these people are supposed to be "experts." It amazes me that the teachers themselves aren't humiliated by their poor command of the language. But I suppose being an "English major" at a Japanese university gives them enough credibility to teach English grammar right out of a textbook--and they're fanatics about those textbooks. Whenever I disagree with Naoko about grammar, she gets all defensive and says, "Well, the textbook says..." She just can't grasp the concept that her gospel of English grammar may be wrong.
November 23, 2005 When Mariah and I are together, we mostly talk about how crazy our colleagues are, which I fear Naoko would find insulting, as some of our observations are not exactly politically correct. What continues to amaze me about Mariah is that she's able to cross all boundaries simply because she doesn't know any better, kind of like intruding on someone's personal space because you don't realize how far the "no contact" zone extends. There are two teachers on either side of my desk in the teachers' room, and I, being the polite and upstanding young woman I am, always say, "Ohayo gozaimasu" when I arrive in the morning. The teacher to my left responds in kind, while the teacher to my right ignores me altogether. He ignores everyone, not just me. But I've heard him carry on actual conversations with Mariah, and I think it's because she (in a very un-Japanese way) confronts him and forces him to talk to her by addressing him by name.
他人は結局日本人だけでは無く皆批判をし、自分は良い人だと思い込んでる、典型的な自己中馬鹿ジュウ。 >kind of like intruding on someone's personal space because you don't realize how far the "no contact" zone extends. >I, being the polite and upstanding young woman I am, always say, "Ohayo gozaimasu" when I arrive in the morning.
The Year Ahead For Junichiro Koizumi Asia: Japan won many friends in Asia with its prompt and effective aid in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. It continues to court the region as part of its wider support for the development of an East Asian Community.
Probe May Widen in Stem Cell Fraud Case By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer 48 minutes ago NEW YORK - New allegations of fraud in stem-cell research by a prominent South Korean researcher emerged Thursday, and scientists said his other high-profile claims could face investigation as well. Among them: the first cloned human embryos and the first cloned dog. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/skorea_stem_cell;_ylt=Av9y5Fg4U6S_WWVYPpZirlGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Talk about the war! (Did anyone mention that?) Ask them about Unit 731 (whatever it was called, the biological weapons unit), the Rape of Nanking, the death railway ... the fun never ends.
13. Conclude an agreement on allowable catches by South Korean and Japanese fishing boats in the median fishing zone around Tokdo/Takeshima. 14. Clearly state that the South accepts existing border treaties and will pursue peaceful reunification on this basis. 15. Establish a public fund to provide compensation for the victims of Japanese colonialism who were under-compensated or not compensated by the 1965 Normalisation Treaty. 16. Publicly acknowledge and thank Japan for the economic aid provided under the Normalisation Treaty.
>>654 "what do you do to piss the locals right off? i love doing stuff a little differently and watching how shocked and uncomfortable they all become"
Asian American X - While this book has done an excellent job of providing a forum for the young Asian-American community, many of the essays excoriate Americans for their ignorance of and discrimination against foreign cultures, neatly sidestepping the fact that Asians can be just as ignorant and discriminatory.
Woman Enters Not Guilty Plea In Prostitution Charge Kyung M. Jung, 46, of 4014 Sherman Ave., Fort Wayne, stood before Superior Court II Judge James Jarrette for an initial hearing. Since Jung does not speak English, a Korean interpreter was contacted via Language Line Inc. to translate the hearing. Jung also requested that she be allowed to go to Atlanta until her trial, but when asked for a street address for the Atlanta residence, she told the court she would just stay here.
Jung was arrested for alleged prostitution at VIP The Office Spa at 3685 Lake City Highway, Warsaw, Oct. 12 during an undercover investigation conducted in Kosciusko County.
Workers sue Korean eatery A group that provides low-wage-earning Korean immigrant workers with legal representation yesterday announced it has filed a federal suit on behalf of 13 restaurant workers left without paychecks when a popular restaurant suddenly closed last February. Not only did Chong Min Mun - who owned the Seoul Plaza building on Northern Blvd. and 150th Place in Flushing and a banquet hall/restaurant inside - not pay the workers wages in January and February 2005, but he also "failed to pay minimum wages and overtime, and did not deal with tips properly," said Steven Choi, the director of the Korean Workers Project.
>>689 自分たちで画像分析して某海外機関などにメールしてたんだと。 その結果なのかどうかはわからんが↓ Schatten said he received documents last week from “someone” involved in the research that suggests results were fabricated. After carefully reviewing pictures and the data in the article in light of the new information, the geneticist said he began to have doubts over the accuracy of the paper. Schatten did not say whether the “someone” was Korean
今日のハゲスレ Sapporo Middle School Girls Play Choking Game Genetic Experiment on Multiracials Finds Skin Color Gene 30 Dog Heads Found in Tokyo Vindictive Father Wants Killer Info Released Nazi Principal Says "Do it Like Hitler" $55,000 Snoopy Pendants Being Sold
South Korean Dogs The atrocities inflicted upon dogs and cats slaughtered for human consumption in Korea are shockingly cruel: Dogs are electrocuted or are often fully conscious as they are strung up by their necks and beaten violently in order to increase the flow of adrenaline in their flesh, which is believed to increase the virility of men who eat it. Cats endure a fate just as horrific. A recent ITN news report confirms that cats are often boiled alive in order to extract their “juice” for use in medicinal “tonics.”
>>722 HK Blacklists Korean Troublemakers for WTO Meet
Hong Kong police have drawn up a list of 300 Koreans with a history of violent protests as the territory gears up to host the WTO Ministerial Meeting from Dec. 13. Those who try to enter the city will be turned back, and if they resist or problems with flights or the like prevent them from returning to Korea, they will be jailed for the duration of the meeting, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday. The daily quoted a source as saying the list of known Korean troublemakers was compiled with the help of Interpol, the Immigration Bureau and private security consultants.
A report warns that life expectancy has dropped in the country to just 58 years for men and 66 for women:this is an alarming statistic for a industrialised country which is a member of the G8.
Ellen Rubinstainに誰かこれ送りつけてやれよ、 同朋のRabbiがとんでも無い事してるぞ(要ビデオ観覧) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10498319/ On the hunt for Internet sex predators HIDDEN CAMERA INVESTIGATION NBC News Updated: 9:34 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2005 We went undercover to expose them, because so many children are at risk. Some respected members of the community were caught by our hidden cameras, trying to meet young teens. 2 It’s 4 a.m. in an AOL chat room. This 54-year old man screenname- “Redbd” messages a 13-year-old boy named Conrad saying, “I’m prowling for young men.” What he goes on to say and the pictures he sends are so graphic we had to carefully edit them before putting them on television. And as you’ll hear when we read from his chat log, it’s clear "Redbd" knows what he’s doing is wrong.
That’s right— a rabbi, the man who sent several pornographic pictures of himself is a man of God. He’s been a staff member of a Jewish organization that provides educational programs for Jewish high school students.
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馬鹿チョンは、不法滞在の癖に変な言い掛かりと、言い訳してるな! Californians frustrated with levels of illegal immigration - an estimated 3 million undocumented people live in the state - called the bill a small and much-needed step in immigration reform. 'People are just flying in here. There's too many people and they're not assimilating. There's crime, there's big-time racial tensions in our schools, and I also see the blame and wrath is being directed at the immigrants themselves.
Many also said they fear a sweeping provision that applies criminal penalties to anyone who assists an illegal immigrant. 'Many of our families are mixed families where we may have an undocumented members,' said Eun Sook Lee, director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium in Los Angeles, raising the specter of men and women facing arrest for protecting family members. She and others said the bill also could apply to social agencies or even churches that provide job training and other services and don't ask questions about legal status.
After the border negotiations a while ago there where riots in the street and a **** storm on the internet, even normaly relaxed Chinese I know where incredably pissed off over it. There will come a point where there will be no point in defending the Russian Far East because it wont be Russian anymore it will be Chinese.
"The Chinese and Korean teams are so deep, they do team skating all the time," Yuki Ohno said. "It's just common for them. They don't think there's anything wrong with it. They're like, 'So what? What did we do?' We're like, 'That's illegal.'"
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20051217/NEWS/112170055 Two arrested in prostitution bust Weld County Sheriff's deputies arrested two Weld County women near Del Camino on Thursday in connection with federal and county investigations of prostitution.
Yong Cho Gates, 67, and Ok Hui Yu, 52, both lived in the Sun Health Spas, 10763 Turner Blvd. No. 2, near Del Camino in southwestern Weld, east of Longmont.
The women reportedly told investigators the spa charged $40 for a 30-minute massage and $60 for an hour-long massage. Yu said the price for prostitution was an additional $140. She said she would keep $100 and give $40 to Gates. Both women are Korean, but are legal U.S. residents, Caldwell said. Yu moved into the spa at the beginning of the month when she arrived from Boston.
The modern and contemporary history textbooks in our high schools are so busy infusing students with class and national ideologies down to the final years of the Chosun Kingdom that they fail to describe international relations, especially the interplay of the great powers that had such a fatal effect on the Korean Peninsula. That, in any case, is the assessment of senior historian Prof. Choi Moon-hyung, formerly of Hanyang University. He makes the criticism in a paper he will deliver at a Textbook Forum seminar on Thursday. A combination of left-wing historiography and blinkered nationalism, he says, misses any objective assessment of the nation’s dissolution and remains myopically fixated on Korea alone in the less than 100 years of recent history. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200512/200512130027.html
"Hi, sweetie," said Kim, the manager of the Korean-run club in downtown Washington. The john, a tall man in his 50s, stepped inside. He wore a white shirt and sharply parted hair, and he smelled as if he'd had a drink. "Look at his face — very tired," Kim said as he went inside. "Sad people come. Stress people. This customer stay 30 minutes, then happy. Everybody happy."
Late Friday, an 82-year-old man who runs a neighborhood meat shop admitted to dumping the dog heads into the moat, and police are questioning him, public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News agency said.
commentary The politics of eating dogs http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=comment&id=202 Both Koreans and Korean-Americans, whatever their personal feelings about poshintang, came together recently to achieve a common goal: elicit an apology from Jay Leno.
When judges at the Salt Lake City Olympics disqualified Korean speed skater Kim Dong Sung in the 1,500-meter final and awarded American Apolo Anton Ohno the gold medal, Leno joked on "The Tonight Show" that the disappointed Korean might have kicked his dog, then eaten it. Korean-Americans were not happy with this feeble witticism.
Another, more combative strategy is also afoot. The MCIC Group — a Philadelphia law firm that is also heading up class-action lawsuits in cases involving Japanese slave labor during World War II and the U.S. Army killings of civilians at Nogun-ri in the Korean War — is demanding an apology and monetary damages from Leno and NBC
NYT To the Editor: I was shocked to read Brent Staples's glowing review of Japan's educational system. I have been teaching English at a private girls' high school in Japan for the last year and have witnessed none of the zeal for improving "student understanding" that Mr. Staples so enthusiastically supports. Students' understanding is relevant only insofar as it increases their chances of passing university entrance exams. Classes consist of lectures, not discussions, and students are taught to memorize, not analyze. Japanese students may perform better than American students on standardized tests, but they lack critical thinking skills. Mr. Staples also cites several countries, Japan among them, that have ministries of education responsible for "educational quality control." But "quality control" for Japan's ministry means >>>>>promoting the use of history textbooks that whitewash or omit information about Japan's brutality against its Asian neighbors in the first half of the 20th century.<<<<< Is this the kind of "quality" we want in our educational system?
Battle of Okinawa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, fought on the island of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands (south of the four big islands of Japan), was the largest amphibious assault during the Pacific campaign of World War II. It was also the largest sea-land-air battle in history, running from April through June, 1945.
There is talk of a Nobel Prize nomination. More than 1,000 Korean women have already signed up to give him their eggs -- on a Web site ("grotesque and bizarre" is the verdict from a Korean women's group). The Web site includes a telling comment from a man saying he "fought" with his wife because she refused to sign up. The site deems those who do sign on as "angels" in the "patriotic army"; an entire high school class of 33 girls has signed up. Conversely, there have been death threats against journalists critical of the effort.
>>809 >However, I soon fell in love with Japanese culture, and by the end of that first semester >I knew that I wanted to major in East Asian Languages and Cultures--and that I wanted to live >in Japan someday. I fulfilled the first goal over four years of college, during which time >I did a fair bit of research on Japan, specifically on film and literature.
これ冗談か何かだろ。日記で日本語能力試験の3級か何かができなかったって 書いてなかったか。明瞭に書かれている教科書も読めず、film and literatureと ぬかしおって、笑わしよるな。
US Customs Seizes Fake Tamiflu December 19, 2005 Authorities have intercepted more than 50 packages of fake bird flu vaccine shipped to the US in recent weeks, evidently from China, federal officials said. Scientists are analyzing the ingredients in capsules sold as 'generic Tamiflu' to online customers, Dave Elder, director of the Food and Drug Administration's office of enforcement, told Agence France-Presse.
'First of all, there is no such thing as generic Tamiflu,' Elder said, noting that Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is the only legitimate maker of the vaccine.
Preliminary testing confirmed the capsules did not contain the active ingredient in Tamiflu, according to Elder.
Packaging bore Chinese writing, prompting US investigators to seek the help of counterparts in Asia to track down the point of origin.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3325167 Faced with furious landowners and extensive environmental damage, city building inspectors are finally trying to catch up with a clergyman they say illegally carved up a La Tuna Canyon hillside to build his church. Neighbors, who first complained about the illegal construction in 2001, say city officials' lack of enforcement has created a dangerous landslide risk for residents downhill and an expensive liability for property owners whose land was bulldozed without their permission. "This has been going on for years with the church, and they've been cited several times," said Linda Greco, president of the La Tuna Canyon Community Association. "I just wish somebody would enforce the laws. When you're doing illegal grading, it's putting the whole community at risk. There are mudslide issues." Four years ago, neighbors warned city officials about massive grading in the hills, and the Department of Building and Safety issued an order for the pastor, John Park, and his Korean church to stop construction. Even after a city inspector opened another investigation in July, neighbors said they watched Park continue to use heavy equipment. They said he carved a 40-foot-wide road through a neighbor's pristine hillside to land he rented to Cingular Wireless for a cell phone tower. Building-safety officials said the illegal grading is much worse than they previously supposed. They said tons of unstable soil could slide with a heavy rain. "We tried to issue orders and tried to get them to comply, but some people feel they're above the law, and they're not going to comply," said Bob Steinbach, assistant bureau chief. "If they choose not to comply, we're not police officers. We can't go out there and stop them." Contacted by phone, Park said he does not speak English and could not answer questions about the church property. However, neighbors said they've spoken with Park in English many times.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/ebay_fraud.html Consumers Question eBay's Security Although the customers of online auction giant eBay are frequently a target of phishers and fraudsters, critics say the company turns a blind eye to the potential endangerment of its users. In an interview with BBC's Radio Five Live, Gareth Griffiths, head of "trust and security" for eBay's operations in Britain, said that it was the responsibility of eBay customers to install proper security software, and not to click on suspicious phishing e-mails that enable fraudsters to steal users' personal information.
eBay users have been hit with phishing e-mails multiple times in recent years, including an attack in August 2005 that actually directed readers to the genuine eBay log-in page, but then redirected them to a "fake" page in order to steal their information.
The email looks quite authentic and contains numerous links to actual eBay pages. It invites the recipient to respond by logging into the My Messages section of eBay. The "Respond Now" link embedded in the email, however, goes to an address that ends in ".kr," the Internet suffix used for Korean sites.
Thus, one who responded to this email and attempted to log into his or her email account would, in fact, be giving away their eBay log-in information to what is most likely an international fraud ring.
Pet food containing rendered cattle can also be legally fed to cats, even though felines are susceptible to a brain-wasting illness very similar to mad cow disease.
>>845 >>18 & Big Three May Be Shrinking but US Auto Business Isn't Los Angeles Times, CA - Dec 18, 2005 GM's share of the U.S. auto market has fallen to a record low 26%. A decade from now GM will have shrunk "into the teens," said Dan Gorrell, vice president of Strategic Vision, an auto research firm in San Diego. Ford (currently with a 17.4% U.S. market share) and Chrysler (13.6%) will have similarly reduced shares, he said. Peterson and several other analysts say Toyota (now with 13.3%) could be the top brand here within a decade, but with less than a 20% market share. Asian brands together account for almost 40% of all "passenger vehicle sales" in the United States.
"Instead of the Big Three in Detroit being the symbol of the world's automobile industry, we'll be looking at a global Big Six or maybe a Big Seven, and eventually they'll all be around the same size" in North America, said Jim Press, president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. and a member of Toyota's global management board. On his scorecard, the top six automakers would be: Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Honda, DaimlerChrysler and Nissan.
>>847 ようやく意味がわかった。 Admin Sorry to confuse you, but the forum is not shutting down. We are moving all of our sites under the CRISSCROSS name. In the next week or so the forum will be renamed to CRISSCROSS FORUM and a link to the forum will be added to the Crisscross News menubar.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3542692.html Dec. 22, 2005 Scandal Puts Focus on South Korean Culture "I suspect it's a question of whether nationalism and the public spotlight kind of swept them along a little bit," said Michael Breen, author of "The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies."
"In that kind of rush to be first, they kind of cut corners," he said. It's symbolized in everything from the hellish traffic in Seoul and Mad Max-esque bus drivers, to South Koreans' love of quick-hit coffee and energy drinks and downing shots of alcohol in a single gulp. A government campaign seems to have stemmed citizens' penchant to crowd in front of subway cars and not let exiting passengers leave before trying to push inside.
In 1995, a Seoul department store collapsed, killing 501 people, in an accident blamed on faulty construction because of illegal design changes made after bribes to officials, payments referred to as "hurry-up" money. A bridge also collapsed in the city in 1994 for similar reasons, killing 32.
"Sometimes the ends justify the means and things that get in the way like sticking to the rules are annoying and seen as secondary," Breen said.
本当かよ? Japan to crack down on suspected N Korean money laundering Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe told the Financial Services Agency Thursday to step up efforts to stop money laundering associated with alleged illegal activity conducted by North Korea such as drug trafficking, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Friday.
<丶`∀´> 謝罪と賠償するニダ! <丶`∀´> $1.1-millionの示談金を貰ったニダ! http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hermosa23dec23,0,5034753.story?coll=la-home-local City Settles Lawsuit Alleging Racism Allegations that Hermosa Beach police officers harassed owners of a nightclub restaurant because it attracted black patrons resulted in a $1.1-million settlement by the city and prompted the police chief to call for all officers to audio record their encounters. The case centered on Point 705. The club's owners alleged in a federal lawsuit that police officers manhandled and intimidated people at the restaurant and club.
The suit also alleged that officers regularly directed racial slurs at the Korean American owners and angrily challenged them for bringing in African American patrons into the city.
"We don't like people like you in my town," one officer allegedly told the son of one of the owners. "I am going to do everything to shut you down."
"The amount itself belies the notion that this was a nuisance value settlement," said Merrick Bobb, who monitors the Sheriff's Department for the Los Angeles County supervisors. "It may be a business decision in that it may be reflective of a fear that if the case is tried on its merits, the potential damages … will far exceed $1.1 million." The episode has renewed talks about making audio recording by police officers mandatory as a deterrent against misconduct, but also to protect officers. "If you have a statement that is recorded, then you can refer to the statement, and it would help you see the true character" of what happened, Police Chief Michael Lavin said.
<丶`∀´> the club Point 705 plaintiffs chose a different course of conduct, " they wrote. "Plaintiffs began claiming that they were being unfairly targeted … solely 'because they are Korean American.' "
>Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial where Japan's war dead, including war criminals
Typical omission of an unfavourable fact. Yasukuni enshrines all who suffered in those tragic times, including the soldiers and citizens of both Axis and Allies.
Chester Dillahunt of Fairfield survived World War II and the Korean War to be killed at the age of 86 by a drunken illegal immigrant. On Friday, Jeronimo Rocha, from Brazil, was sentenced to six years in prison for the crime. He'll be deported back to Brazil after he serves his term.
It is very sad that racial discrimination still exists in the world. I am wishing that the racial discrimination by the color of the skin or an eye is lost. For that purpose, what should it carry out? Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania and Europe. It is the one world. World is not white's.
HMS Manchester was involved in a minor collision after her visit to New York for America's Independence Day celebrations.
Dozens of warships and over 100 other vessels were involved in the July 4th celebrations and the incident occurred as the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II was manoeuvring in the crowded harbour.
As tugs attempted to bring the QE2 alongside in Manhattan the liner's stern drifted out and dented the Japanese Training Squadron vessel Kashima, forcing her to scrape against the Portsmouth-based Type 42 destroyer HMS Manchester. No serious damage was done and the Japanese Admiral on board the Kashima was quoted as saying it was an honour to have been 'kissed' by the Queen Elizabeth.
HMS Manchester's return to the United Kingdom will not be delayed - she is due back in Portsmouth on July 21. Her duties as Atlantic Guardship North are being taken over by HMS Cardiff.
There is no movement in Japan to open the door to widespread immigration. The Japanese workplace, more than those in other advanced countries, remains closed to women, in keeping with the belief among the country's male political and business leaders that married women belong at home. Many young Japanese have simply given up on finding work or getting further education. The government classifies these Japanese as NEET - an acronym for not in education, employment or training - and says they number 600,000.
Jim Michaels: The Chinese government wants better relations with the United States. We also know that they have no use for the North Korean leader. They’re trying to rattle our cage a little bit. The truth is, it’s really their problem and they could strangle this guy if they wanted to.
Steve Forbes: Another thing we should do is put pressure on the South Korean government to allow North Koreans to come into the South. They don’t want the North Koreans. That’s how we brought down East Germany. East Germans had a way to get into West Germany. That’s how the wall fell.
Anti-Japanese protest earns jail term BEIJING, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- China reportedly sentenced a citizen to 12 years in jail for organizing anti-Japanese protests over that country's approval of controversial textbooks. Chinese police disperse protestors (April 24, 2005) -- Chinese police officers Sunday dispersed thousands of people gathered to demonstrate against Japan in Zhuhai City. The rallies last April were to protest the textbooks, which the organizers said had glossed over Japan's wartime atrocities, the BBC reports. The "New History" textbooks, published by a right-wing publisher, deal with the 1937-38 Nanjing massacre in which Japanese troops killed an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 people and refer to it only as an "incident," the report said. http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051225-10540900-bc-china-activist.xml
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http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=hotStocksNews&storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20051223:MTFH88011_2005-12-23_20-21-19_FOR373264:1 Bausch & Lomb shares fall on restatement, Korea probe Fri Dec 23, 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bausch & Lomb Inc. (BOL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) shares fell 8.3 percent on Friday, a day after the eye-care company said it would restate financial results and that it launched a probe into possibly improper sales practices at its Korean subsidiary. The company, which was among the top percentage losers on the New York Stock Exchange in afternoon trading The Korean subsidy, whose revenue recognition practices are being investigated by the company's audit committee, accounted for $33 million, or less than 2 percent of total revenue, in 2004. The company said it was too early to predict the investigation's outcome or the timing of its conclusion. Bausch & Lomb's shares, which had gained 23 percent this year through Thursday, fell $6.54 to $72.53 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Chinese Man Steals Bra From Woman He Loves Beijing, China (AHN) - A Chinese court has dismissed charges against a man who broke into a neighbor's home multiple times, stealing a bra and pictures, all because he loved her, reports the official Xinhua news agency on Tuesday.
Police caught him sneaking out of the neighbor's apartment in November, holding a key to the door, a bra, two photos and an MP3 player, the report says.
Chinese man jailed a year for smuggling people A Chinese man has been sentenced to one year in jail for his role in a people-smuggling operation to Canada. A court in St. John's handed down the sentence on Wednesday for Lin Zhou Zhang, 39, who pleaded guilty a week earlier. He and five young Chinese citizens from Fujian province arrived in St. John's in early October. They came aboard a Star Princess cruise ship from Denmark and tried to leave it using fake Korean passports.
Let experiments repeat "This is truth. There is life on Mars," CNN reported a statement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on August 6, 1996. It was the biggest discovery in the history of science that resulted from analyses of meteorites from Mars. Then-President Bill Clinton pledged, "We will concentrate all our ability and technology to exploring outer space. " For nine years after that, NASA continued to send probes to Mars but failed to find evidence of any life. It turned out to have been a conspiracy by NASA aiming for trillions of dollars of the government budget and Bill Clinton aiming for re-election.
Professor Hwang Woo-suk's intentional falsification of his research paper is embarrassing but less so than the actions of NASA.