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Top court upholds jail term for SK chairman
South Korea’s top court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling to sentence the chief of SK Group, the country’s third-largest family conglomerate, to four years in jail for embezzling company assets. SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won was convicted of misappropriating nearly 46.5 billion won ($43.6 million) from two of the SK Group affiliates ― SK Telecom Co. and SK C&C Co. ― to make personal investments in stock futures and options in 2008.The Supreme Court also handed down a three-and-a-half-ye
Social Affairs Feb. 27, 2014
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FIFA: We won’t hide from protests during World Cup
FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) ― FIFA says it is concerned about security challenges during the World Cup in Brazil but isn’t afraid of being targeted by public demonstrations expected in June. “FIFA is not coming now with less people. Instead, we are increasing our staff during the World Cup, obviously, and we are not hiding our brand,” director of security Ralf Mutschke said on Thursday. “FIFA is not feeling as a target and we are not hiding ourselves or our symbol. We are proud to be here and to
Soccer Feb. 21, 2014
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U.S. nun gets prison for nuke plant protest
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) ― An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a U.S. nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws.Two other activists who broke into the facility with Megan Rice were sentenced to more than five years in prison, in part because they had much longer criminal histories of mostly non-violent civil disobedience.Although officials claimed there was
World News Feb. 19, 2014
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Al-Qaeda-linked group claims bomb attack: report
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis reportedly claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a tourist bus on the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday that killed three Koreans and an Egyptian driver and injured 14 others. The explosion took place at about 9:20 p.m., Korean time, in a border town of Taba as 35 people including two Egyptian assistants were crossing into Israel.The attack came amid growing Islamist insurgency since the July ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.Army Radio and othe
Foreign Affairs Feb. 17, 2014
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[Editorial] Visa for foreign spouses
The number of multicultural families is growing fast in Korea. So is the number of problems arising from the demographic change, which is obliging policymakers to work out proper countermeasures. It is therefore noteworthy that the government has set out new rules on granting visas for foreign spouses of Korean nationals. The measure, which will take effect April 1, mainly deals with the Korean language ability of foreign spouses and the economic status of their Korean partners. In short, any fo
Editorial Feb. 10, 2014
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Spain princess testifies in fraud probe
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) ― In a historic judicial hearing that could further impact the deteriorated image of Spain’s monarchy, Princess Cristina testified Saturday in a fraud and money laundering case in which she and her husband could eventually be charged.Judge Jose Castro will rule on whether Cristina, the first Spanish royal to be questioned in court since the monarchy was restored in 1975, illegally used funds from a company she owned with her husband for personal expenses, including
World News Feb. 9, 2014
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중국, '난징대학살 부정' NHK 경영위원 성토
중국 정부는 5일 일본 공영방송 NHK의 경영 위원이 난징(南京)대학살을 부정하는 발언을 한 데 대해 "인류 양심에 대한 도전"이 라고 성토했다.훙레이(洪磊) 중국 외교부 대변인은 이날 기자와의 문답 형식의 논평에서 "난징 대학살은 일본 군국주의가 중국을 침략한 전쟁 중에 저지른 잔학한 범죄행위"라면서 "명백한 증거로서 완전히 확정된 안건이자 국제사회가 이미 정설을 갖고 있는 사안 "이라고 규정했다.훙 대변인은 이어 "일본 국내 극소수 인사들의 이런 역사를 말살•은폐•왜곡하려는 시도는 국제정의와 인류양심에 대한 공개적인 도전"이라고 비판했다.그는 이어 "역사의 수레바퀴를 거꾸로 돌리려는 일본 지도자들의 잘못된 행위와 도 일맥상통하는 것으로서 마땅히 국제사회가 큰 경계심을 가져야 한다"고 말했다.그는 "우리는 일본이 침략의 역사를 직시하고 깊이 반성할 것을 엄정하게 촉구한 다"면서 "책임 있는 자세로 역사가 남겨놓은 문제를 적절하게 처리하고 실제적인 행 동으로 아시아 이웃국가와 국제
한국어판 Feb. 6, 2014
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China furious at Japan NHK manager's Nanjing denial
China reacted furiously on Wednesday to the denial of the Nanjing massacre by a senior manager at Japan's national broadcaster, calling his remarks "a barefaced challenge to international justice".Naoki Hyakuta dismissed as "propaganda" the accounts of the 1937-8 orgy of murder and rape by Japanese troops as they rampaged through China, in comments made during a stump speech for a right-wing candidate in Sunday's election for Tokyo governor.In a stinging response Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spok
World News Feb. 6, 2014
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집단섹스거부 친구 살해 여대생 아만다 녹스 다시 유죄
이탈리아 유학 중에 집단 섹스를 거부한 룸메이트를 살해한 혐의로 4년간 복역 후 지난 2011년 무죄 평결을 받고 풀려났던 미국 여대생 아만다 녹스(27)가 목요일(현지시간) 이탈리아에서 열린 항소심에서 다시 유죄 평결을 받았다.AP통신 등 주요 외신에 따르면, 이탈리아 플로렌스 항소법원은 녹스의 살인 혐의에 대해 징역 28년 6개월을 선고했다고 보도했다.시애틀에서 이번 판결을 지켜본 녹스와 변호인단은 즉각 부당한 판결이라고 밝히고 놀랍고 슬픈 일이라는 반응을 보였다. 이들은 즉각 이탈리아 상급법원에 항소 하겠다고 밝혔다.이번 사건은 미녀 대학생과 살인, 집단섹스, 미스터리, 마약, 국경을 넘나든 법정 싸움 등 온갖 극적 요소가 결합해 전 세계의 관심을 모았다.특히 서방언론 취재진은 플로랜스 법원 앞에 수백명이 운집해 헤드라인 뉴스로 앞다퉈 보도했다. 또 이번 사건은 ‘섹스 스릴러’의 결정체로 TV시리즈와 영화, 책으로 제작될 예정이었다.사건은 2007년 11월로 거슬러 올라간다.
한국어판 Jan. 31, 2014
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[팟캐스트](27) 위안부 관련 조항 담은 세출법안 통과
[팟캐스트](27) 위안부 관련 조항 담은 세출법안 통과[기사요약] 미 하원 혼다의원의 역사정의를 위한 노력이 위안부 관련 조항을 담은 2014년 미 연방정부 세출법안이 통과되면서 더 큰 힘을 얻고 있다. 세출법안에는 일본이 전시에 아시아 여성들을 성노예화 한 것과 관련해 사과하도록 압박하는 내용의 조항이 포함되어 있다. Honda’s historical justice gains momentum[1] U.S. lawmaker Mike Honda’s push for historical justice gained greater momentum last week with the passage of a spending bill that included a provision pressuring Japan to apologize for its wartime sexual enslavement of Asian women.* historical: 역사상의, 역사의 (historic: 역사적으로 중요
Podcast Jan. 28, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Honda’s historical justice gains momentum
U.S. lawmaker Mike Honda’s push for historical justice gained greater momentum last week with the passage of a spending bill that included a provision pressuring Japan to apologize for its wartime sexual enslavement of Asian women.Albeit nonbinding, the provision brought fresh international attention to the women whose human dignity was trampled as they were forced to serve at frontline brothels by Japan’s Imperial Army during World War II.President Barack Obama signed the bill for the fiscal ye
Politics Jan. 19, 2014
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Seoul to set up more courts for sex crimes
The Seoul Central District Court is pushing plans to set up more courts that deal with sex offenses, according to court officials on Thursday. Under the plan, three divisions each consisting of three judges will handle sex crime cases, the court said. Currently, there are two divisions in charge of sex crimes. The measure is part of the court system’s efforts to strengthen the criminal justice system for sex offenders and bring them to justice.“The court has faced sweeping changes in the system
Social Affairs Jan. 16, 2014
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Miss Venezuela’s murder is the price of politics
When a former beauty queen and her husband are killed by highway robbers on a Caracas freeway in front of their 5-year-old daughter the issue inevitably becomes political.The shooting death of Monica Spear, the 2004 Miss Venezuela, along with her husband, Thomas Henry Berry, on Monday happened in one of the world’s most dangerous countries, where the government regulates almost every facet of life, yet tolerates the social rot and corruption that breed rampant crime.The government’s initial resp
Viewpoints Jan. 15, 2014
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Fewer criminals jailed in Sweden despite rising crime
STOCKHOLM (AFP) ― Swedish judge Carin Westerlund says she seldom hesitates to take the opportunity of keeping a convict out of prison.“I can choose to hand down a probation or community service sentence rather than condemn someone to prison,” Westerlund, a judge in Uppsala district, told AFP.Alternative sentences are not available to all offenders, though.“If we talk about other crimes, like ... burglaries, narcotics or sexual violence, I’d say the sentences haven’t changed in the last ten years
World News Jan. 13, 2014
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Pot and morality
A self-described aging hippie friend posted this New Year’s message on Facebook that made me laugh, and then made me think: “Twenty years ago, if someone had told me I would live to see the day that marijuana would become legal for recreational use, gays not only were out of the closet but could legally marry, an African-American president would be elected and re-elected ... I’d have said: dream on.”“Bring on 2014,” she wrote.With gay people marrying, even in Utah (the Supreme Court has that on
Viewpoints Jan. 12, 2014
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Obama proposes new gun rules for mentally ill
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The Obama administration proposed two new federal gun control rules Friday to ensure more information about the mentally ill reaches background check databases, after a series of high-profile U.S. shootings.The rules come on top of a series of executive actions President Barack Obama announced after the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting that left 20 young children and six staff dead in December 2012.The massacre relaunched a push for gun control laws in America and a handfu
World News Jan. 5, 2014
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Indian teen gang-raped, burned to death: police
KOLKATA (AFP) ― An Indian teenager was gang-raped in two separate attacks and then died after being set on fire, sparking protests in the eastern city of Kolkata and the capital, police said Thursday.The 16-year-old was first assaulted on Oct. 26 and then again the next day by a group of more than six men near her family’s home in the town of Madhyagram, 25 kilometers north of Kolkata.The second rape occurred as she was returning home after reporting the first attack at a police station. She was
World News Jan. 3, 2014
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'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs dies at 84
Ronnie Biggs was a petty criminal who set out to transform his life with the daring heist of a mail train packed with money.The plan worked in ways he could never have imagined.Biggs was part of a gang of at least 12 men that robbed a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in the early hours of Aug. 8, 1963, switching its signals and tricking the driver into stopping in the darkness. The robbery netted 125 sacks of banknotes worth 2.6 million pounds _ $7.3 million at the time, or more than $50 mill
World News Dec. 19, 2013
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Evidence of wrongful convictions grows
“He lies like an eyewitness.” It’s an old Russian saying, of uncertain provenance but enduring popularity among the defense bar. Unfortunately, there is truth to the proverb ― and the result is that too many innocent people go to jail for crimes they didn’t commit, and too many of the guilty go free.A new report issued jointly by the U.S. Department of Justice and the International Association of Chiefs of Police shows how common wrongful convictions are and suggests ways to help prevent them. D
Viewpoints Dec. 6, 2013
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Political tension rises over alleged Blue House role in love child scandal
The prosecution on Thursday raided the home and office of an official suspected of requesting a presidential staffer to check the personal information of a child alleged to be an illegitimate son of former Prosecutor General Chae Dong-wook. The official, identified only with his surname Kim and affiliated with the Ministry of Security and Public Administration, has denied the allegation raised by the presidential office following its internal probe into the case. The prosecution said it will als
Social Affairs Dec. 5, 2013
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