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Seven to hold solo concert in Japan

MusicOct 9, 2011

...er Prize in the MTV Asia Awards in 2006, and won another prize at the MTV Best Buzz Asia Award in the same year. The 26-year-old singer also debuted as an actor in 2007 in the TV drama series “Goong S.” Seven has held a total of five concerts in Japan so far, with his first taking place in Osaka in 2005. His most recent concert there, the “Are U Ready? Japan Tour Concert” took place in 2007. By...
[Editorial] Global patent war

EditorialOct 9, 2011

... Nortel for $4.5 billion. The next month, Google went a step further by acquiring Motorola Mobility’s 17,000 patents and its handset manufacturing facilities for $12.5 billion. It also purchased paten...ple. On Wednesday, Samsung filed suits with courts in France and Italy to ban sales of the iPhone 4S, claiming that the U.S. company has violated its wireless patents. This signals that Samsung has s...
[Editorial] Punishment for sex crimes

EditorialOct 9, 2011

...o disabled rape victims, since they have difficulty expressing themselves. Therefore the government’s decision to remove this requirement is a step in the right direction, given that it only benefits ...ished the statutes of limitations for sex crimes in 2000. In Great Britain and many states of the U.S., no statutes of limitations are in place for sex crimes. To protect children and disabled people ...
Twitter can start a party but can’t keep it going

ViewpointsOct 9, 2011

...ollowers. Why should Facebook and Twitter be good for social parties but not political parties? It’s too soon to know definitively; and of course it is possible that, as technology changes and user c...a law professor at Harvard University and the author of “Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices,” is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. ...
[J. Bradford DeLong] A free lunch for America

ViewpointsOct 9, 2011

BERKELEY ― Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure. Summers was criticizing Europe’s focus on the second-order issue of Greece while far graver imbalances ― between the EU’s north and south, and between reckless banks’ cre...
Watch out for Putin, and Russia

ViewpointsOct 9, 2011

...y every indicator― macroeconomic, political, social ― the system that Putin forged in the early 2000s is all but exhausted and is driving the country toward a dead end. It must be radically reformed, ... in control? In the last 12 years, first under Putin and then under the Putin-Medvedev duo, Russia’s dependence on oil exports has grown enormously, and with it the economy’s vulnerability to swings ...
The scapegoating of Amanda Knox

ViewpointsOct 9, 2011

... lives. Ninety-eight percent of their aggressors are male. When I went to Perugia in 2009, as Knox’s testimony began, to research a book on the case, I didn’t know whether she was guilty as charged, ...’t possess the language or the maturity to match, let alone overcome, the authority of other people’s notions. In Perugia’s archaeology museum, there are hundreds of ancient Etruscan funerary urns. F...
[Dominique Moisi] The nemesis of Turkish power

ViewpointsOct 9, 2011

PARIS ― A few days ago, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab television network, that he would use his warships to prevent Israeli commandos from again boarding G...ith Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, despite the Syrian government’s abominable behavior. Turkey’s position was, to say the least, perceived badly by the “Arab street.” A major reason for Turkey’s ...
Lee to build retirement home on Seoul's southern outskirts

PodcastOct 9, 2011

...dent Lee Myung-bak and first lady Kim Yoon-ok are planning to reside in a tranquil village on Seoul's southern outskirts after his term ends in 2013, instead of his private home in Nonhyun-dong, a bus...tic area located between Seoul's southern tip and Bundang, a satellite bed town, under his only son's name and will build his retirement home there. Lee's five-year single term ends in February 2013....
Ex-vice culture minister questioned over bribery

Social affairsOct 9, 2011

...nterrogation is expected to widen investigations into the scandal including President Lee Myung-bak’s key aides. Entering the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office around 10 a.m., Shin told reporters: “I... be here to be investigated.” Shin was a newspaper reporter for about 20 years, before joining Lee’s presidential campaign team. The prosecutorial investigation began following a disclosure by SLS C...
Gen. Jung tapped as new JCS chairman

DefenseOct 9, 2011

Army Gen. Jung Seung-jo, deputy commander of the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command, was tapped as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a reshuffle that affected five top military officers, the Defense Ministry said Sunday. Lieut. Gen. Kwon Oh-sung, currently serving as chief of the JCS operations division, will be promoted to replace Jung, the ministry said as it announces its...
Na, Park start mayoral sprint

PodcastOct 9, 2011

... Young-sun of the DP and Choi Kyu-yeop of the minority Democratic Labor Party, who lost in the bloc’s internal race, are also expected to act as directors in the camp. While parties and civic groups ...m on Friday under the influence of alcohol. The GNP candidate mostly focused on the civic activist’s policies. “None of Park’s policies have so far been sufficiently clear,” Na said on Saturday. Na...
New Canadian ambassador arrives

Oct 9, 2011

...nal Trade in 1998, he went on to serve as director of the Multilateral Trade Policy Division before working in Paris as deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2005 to 2009. Following appointments as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as well as Bahrain, Oman and Yemen, he has now been named Canada’s ambassador to both Koreas. (yoav@heraldm.com)
Swedish Embassy closed for two days

Oct 9, 2011

...nmark, Iceland and Norway should take note that the consular section of the Swedish Embassy will be closed on Oct. 21 and Oct. 24 for IT maintenance. The Swedish Embassy will also be closed on Oct. 21 and will reopen on Oct. 24. More information is available at www.swedenabroad.se/seoul. In case of an emergency, contact the embassy’s emergency mobile number at 010-9265-0845. (yoav@heraldm.com)
Secularizing Bangladesh brings promise for future

Oct 9, 2011

...tional practices and ethical advice to curb corruption. Salaries will also increase in order to support the livelihood of police officers and other public service personnel. “The present government’s main objective is to secularize its administration, politics and economics,” he said. “We restored the constitutional ways; we have restored the fundamental rights, and improved the overall relation...