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CGTN: China outlines four-point proposal on global fight against corruption
BEIJING, June 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China made a four-point proposal on international cooperation against corruption on Wednesday, calling for a zero-tolerance attitude toward corruption and respect for differences between countries. Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC (CCDI), made the remarks during a special session of the U
PR Newswire June 4, 2021
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[Editorial] Investigation permit system
Justice Minister Park Beom-kye is seeking to curtail the prosecution’s investigative power. His move came nine months after his predecessor, Choo Mi-ae, reorganized the prosecution to weaken prosecutors’ power to conduct direct investigations. According to the ministry’s prosecution reorganization plan, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office will be able to launch investigations into six categories of serious crimes: Corruption, economy, public officials, elections
Editorial May 27, 2021
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[Editorial] Delayed trial
A year and four months after the prosecution’s indictment, the first trial hearing was held Monday into the presidential office’s alleged meddling in the 2018 Ulsan mayoral election. Current Ulsan Mayor Song Cheol-ho and 14 other former and incumbent public officials were indicted. President Moon Jae-in once said it was his “wish” to see Song, his 30-year friend, elected as Ulsan mayor. According to the indictment, eight offices under Moon’s chief of staff became
Editorial May 13, 2021
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Young ruling party lawmakers say prosecution reform failed to win public support
Five young lawmakers of the Democratic Party said Friday that their party's campaign for prosecution reform may have failed to win public consensus, possibly leading to its devastating defeats in this week's mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan. The five lawmakers -- Reps. Oh Yeong-hwan, Lee So-young, Jang Kyung-tae, Jang Chul-min and Jeon Yong-gi -- made the critical remarks on the party's yearlong drive to weaken the power of the prosecution while reflecting on the causes of its election d
Politics April 9, 2021
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[Erika D. Smith] The secret to keeping this moment of solidarity between Black and Asian Americans
Najee Ali was surprised by the phone call. A young mother of Asian descent, Sia Marie Xiong, had been found dead at an apartment complex in Compton. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had said it didn’t believe the shooting to be a hate crime, but with the recent rash of attacks on Asian Americans, the family wanted to push investigators to consider that possibility. They needed help. “That an Asian family called a Black activist,” Ali said, pausing in wonderm
Viewpoints April 5, 2021
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IAP chief stresses transborder synergy in crime prevention
As President of the International Association of Prosecutors, I was invited to attend the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, March 7-12 in 2021, co-hosted by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Japanese Ministry of Justice, in Kyoto, Japan. The IAP, based in The Hague, is the only worldwide organization of prosecutors committed to raising standards of prosecutorial conduct and ethics, promoting the rule of law and respect for human r
Viewpoints April 2, 2021
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[Newsmaker] Online vigil to honor victims of deadly Atlanta shootings
WASHINGTON -- A vigil will be held this week to honor the victims of recent deadly shootings in Atlanta and to call for a stop to hate crimes in the United States that are increasingly targeting people of Asian descent, organizers said Tuesday. The solemn event will be held in Atlanta on Friday and streamed live at www.326vigil.org, according to KA Vote, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting Korean American civic engagement and representation. The move comes in the wake of shooting
Foreign Affairs March 24, 2021
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[Kim Seong-kon] Parental love takes various forms
A week ago the world was horrified to learn that a 21-year-old American opened fire in three massage parlors in Atlanta and killed eight people, four of whom were Korean women. Many Koreans and Korean Americans were appalled at this apparent hate crime stemming from a xenophobic reaction to COVID-19, despite the shooter’s claim that a sex addiction motivated the shootings. Yet, according to a witness, the suspect shouted, “I am going to kill all Asians!” It was especially absur
Viewpoints March 24, 2021
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[Newsmaker] Political circles eye on Yoon’s next move
The prosecutor general who rose to prominence by standing firm against pressure from the Moon Jae-in administration, shook political minds as he resigned Thursday over moves to deprive the prosecution of its investigative rights, a month ahead of the local by-elections. Yoon Seok-youl had adhered to the customary reticence of a chief prosecutor, limiting his public speech to parliamentary sessions, until he took his first media interview this week, four months before his two-year term was to ex
Social Affairs March 5, 2021
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[Editorial] Let prosecution probe
From this year, the range of investigation by the prosecution was reduced to six categories of serious crimes under related laws revised early last year to reset the relationship between the prosecution and the police. The six fields are economy, corruption, civil servants, elections, defense contracts and disasters. Though a little more than two months into the new system, the ruling Democratic Party of Korea is moving to strip the prosecution of all of its remaining investigation power. The
Editorial March 4, 2021
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[Newsmaker] Chief prosecutor’s outcry against loss of investigative rights draws mixed responses
Chief prosecutor Yoon Seok-youl’s outcry against the ruling party’s move to deprive the prosecution of investigative rights by creating a new crime agency drew mixed reactions Wednesday, with Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun saying he was acting like a politician. Following a yearlong brawl with former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae over investigative rights, the prosecutor general strongly criticized the plan to launch a new agency for “serious crimes,” modeled after Britain&
Social Affairs March 3, 2021
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[Newsmaker] Yoon slams move for new investigative agency
Chief prosecutor Yoon Seok-youl blasted the ruling party’s move to create a separate agency to investigate six types of crime such as abuse of power and corruption, calling it an attempt to “disband the prosecution” and “annihilate the rule of law.” The prosecutor general, who fought a yearlong battle against former Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae over investigative rights, said the move amounted to “regression of democracy and destruction of the spirit of the Co
Social Affairs March 2, 2021
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Can international court resolve ‘comfort women’ issue?
The “comfort women” issue has come to the fore again in the lingering feud between Seoul and Tokyo. The two neighbors were seen locking horns at the United Nations Human Rights Council last week; separately, a South Korean victim of Japanese military sexual slavery pleaded with Seoul and Tokyo to take the thorny issue to the International Court of Justice for a resolution. Lee Yong-soo, one of the survivors, called for the matter to be settled in the UN’s highest court
International Feb. 28, 2021
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[Newsmaker] Lawmakers condemn Myanmar military coup, call for democracy
South Korean lawmakers on Monday called for a restoration of democracy in Myanmar and raised concerns about atrocities against ethnic minorities, after the military junta took control in a coup. Myanmar’s military on Feb. 1 overthrew the country’s democratically elected government and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. A state of emergency was declared, rolling back efforts to end more than 50 years of military dictatorship and establish a democratic government through the
Politics Feb. 22, 2021
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Samsung’s imprisoned chief barred from working at Samsung
Employment restrictions have been imposed on the jailed Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong following his conviction for bribery. Observers said, however, that since Lee is not employed by Samsung and holds only a symbolic title, the ban wouldn’t change the conglomerate’s top leadership. According to local reports Wednesday, the Ministry of Justice notified the Samsung Group’s de facto chief of the employment ban against him and the procedures required to gain appr
Technology Feb. 17, 2021
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[Noah Feldman] Impeachment doesn‘t violate Trump’s rights
The extended trial brief filed by Donald Trump‘s lawyers advances three defenses: that Trump did not incite the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; that the Senate can’t try a president who is no longer in office; and that the First Amendment protects Trump from being impeached for words that, they say, don‘t meet the requirements for criminal incitement conviction laid down by the Supreme Court. The factual defense is highly unconvincing, as anyone who watched Trump’s speech
Viewpoints Feb. 11, 2021
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Ruling party speeds up efforts to weaken prosecution’s power
The ruling Democratic Party is speeding up the process of weakening the power of the prosecution. Now it is moving to create a new investigative agency, on the heels of the establishment of an agency to investigate corruption. On Tuesday, 14 lawmakers led by Rep. Hwang Woon-ha of the ruling party proposed a bill to create an investigative agency tentatively called the serious criminal investigation agency, which would be dedicated to investigating serious crimes -- currently the purview of the
Politics Feb. 9, 2021
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[Kim Myong-sik] Is Korean police ready for new role?
Last week, the Korean National Police Agency announced a major personnel reshuffle, involving almost all of its 550 superintendents, the core of the police force. Printed in fine letters, the names and their short and long new titles occupied nearly half of a newspaper page. The 2021 reassignments of senior police personnel had to be more extensive than in previous years because the KNPA was making a new start with a new organizational structure in three tiers, namely the National Police Agenc
Viewpoints Jan. 28, 2021
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[Editorial] In the victim’s shoes
Kim Jong-cheol, the chief of the Justice Party, resigned Monday due to his sexual misconduct. It is shocking that the leader of a progressive party, which claims to champion gender equality, sexually molested a female lawmaker of the same party. The party disclosed Kim’s sexual harassment and even identified the victim, at her request. The perpetrator admitted to his wrongdoings, apologized and called on the party to sternly punish him. It may be fortunate the party did not hush up
Editorial Jan. 27, 2021
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First US federal execution of woman in decades
An American woman was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday, becoming the first female to be executed by US federal authorities in nearly seven decades. Lisa Montgomery's execution came in the final days of the government of US President Donald Trump, which pushed forward with her execution despite a legal battle that the Supreme Court ended with a ruling in the early hours of Wednesday. Montgomery, 52, murdered an expectant mother to steal her baby, though she had sought a stay of execut
World News Jan. 13, 2021
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