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Osaka mayor encourages US soldiers to resort to prostitution

Osaka Mayor Doru Hashimoto has raised another round of controversy and criticism for saying that American soldiers subscribe more to prostitutions.Previously, the ultra-conservative said it was necessary to provide comfort women for sexual services to soldiers engaging in war.Even the Japanese government and civil groups are criticizing Hashimoto who had long been regarded as a possible candidate for Prime Minister.Senior government officials, including Hakubun Simomura and Domomi Inada, said the comments are a serious discrimination against women’s human rights.Sigeru Ishiba, secretary general of the Democratic Justice Party, said there was obviously a need to look out for the interest of soldiers in battle but it is improper for a representative of a political party to make comments which damage national interests.

May 15, 2013

Court rejects request for arrest of well-known reporter

By Bahk Eun-jieunji.bk@koreatimes.co.krA Seoul district court on Wednesday dismissed the prosecution's request to arrest a well-known reporter who had claimed that a younger brother of President Park Geun-hye was behind a murder case.Joo Jin-woo, a reporter of the monthly news magazine Sisa IN, is accused of spreading false and defamatory information in his article that the president's younger brother, Park Ji-man, was involved in the killing of his relative."There is not enough reason to detain Joo at the present stage after reviewing the evidence and investigation process in which the freedom of press is argued," Um Sang-pil, a judge from the Seoul Central District Court, said of the reasons for the court's decision.A day earlier, Joo attended a hearing to decide whether an arrest warrant should be issued for him and argued that he had received a death threat in connection with his article.Prosecutors said Joo reported the unconfirmed murder suspicion ahead of December's presidential race with an aim to influence the election, in violation of the country's election laws.Park eventu

May 15, 2013

Nine nabbed for smuggling fake Viagra from China

Nine South Koreans have been booked on charges of smuggling fake erectile dysfunction drugs, including Viagra, from China and circulating them on the local market, police here said Wednesday.The nine, led by a 58-year-old ringleader identified only by his surname Sohn, are accused of illegally bringing in counterfeit versions of the drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra and selling them to local retailers between February 2012 and this year, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA).The smuggling ring allegedly bought the fake Viagra for around 70 won ($0.06) per tablet in China and re-sold them for between 900 won and 1,000 won apiece, the SMPA said. The No.1 selling impotence-treating pill Viagra, manufactured by Pfizer Inc., costs between 18,000 and 20,000 won per tablet in the country. Without giving details on how many fake tablets were sold in the country, the SMPA officers said the counterfeit Viagra looked exactly same as the real pills.The arrest raises public health risks as the counterfeit pills meant to treat erectile dysfunction for men have entered the supply

May 15, 2013
Nine nabbed for smuggling fake Viagra from China

Truth game

Lim Gyeong-muk, left, former head of the Institute for National Security Strategy, enters the Seoul Central District Court in southern Seoul, Tuesday. Lim said he did not tell Cho Hyun-oh, right, former chief of the National Police Agency that the late former President Roh Moo-hyun had bank accounts in other people’s names. Cho was sentenced to a 10-month prison term in February for defaming Roh./ Yonhap

May 14, 2013

Football at temple

Child monks play football at Jogye Temple in downtown Seoul, Tuesday, ahead of Buddha’s Birthday which falls on Friday./ Yonhap

May 14, 2013

Food festival

A chef from Turkey makes a kebab during a multicultural food festival inSeongbuk-dong, Seoul, Sunday. The festival attracted chefs from 26countries./  Yonhap

May 14, 2013
Food festival

Pakistani girl shot by Taliban gets award

Ziauddin Yousafzai, left, reacts after receiving the Reflections of Hope Award from Kari Watkins, executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City, Monday. The 2013 award was presented to Yousafzai and his daughter Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt that drew attention worldwide to the struggle for women's rights in her homeland.She has been recovering in Great Britain since the shooting.  / AP-Yonhap

May 14, 2013
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban gets award

Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel saw UFO with aliens aboard

When Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French was a lead investigator of Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs. Given his job, French never dreamed he'd end up in Newfoundland one day watching what appeared to him to be two extraterrestrials performing repairs on a submerged, unknown circular craft, reported Huffington Post. In Washington, D.C., recently, the 83-year-old retired officer testified at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, panel of six former members of Congress about his work as a UFO debunker in 1952.French recounted how the Newfoundland incident unfolded decades ago, in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen by many people off the coast of St. John's. French's superiors ordered him to look into the situation. "They said, 'We have a UFO report and we want you to investigate it,' and that was standard for what I was doing," French told The Huffington Post."They told me there were two of them involved and that they were deep under the water, after entering the water doing roughly 100 miles an hour. "There were a lot of people asse

May 14, 2013
Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel saw UFO with aliens aboard

Man commits murder because of noise from upstairs

By Lee Kyung-minA landlord set fire to his tenant’s house as he couldn’t bear the noise from downstairs, police in Incheon said Tuesday. The tenant was hitting his punching bag for practice at 5:47 p.m. The noise was allegedly too much that the landlord went downstairs with a hammer, according to the police report. Unable to reach agreement, he poured inflammatory liquid, supposedly gasoline, and set fire on the house. The daughter of the tenant and her boyfriend died as a result. In February, two others were stabbed to death, and in March a man knifed a neighbor from upstairs. Another drunken man was embroiled in a similar brawl. Their reason was all the same: noise from upstairs.

May 14, 2013By Lee Kyung-min

Park instructs Unification Ministry to propose talks with NK over Gaesong

President Park Geun-hye instructed the unification ministry Tuesday to propose talks with North Korea about bringing South Korean products and raw materials out of a suspended joint industrial complex in the communist nation.The factory park in the North's border city of Gaesong has been suspended since early April as North Korea withdrew all of its 53,000 workers for 123 South Korean-run factories there. As Pyongyang barred South Korean supplies from entering the complex, Seoul also withdrew all of its workers from the zone."I hope the unification ministry will propose talks with North Korea so as to bring back finished products and raw and subsidiary materials left behind at Gaesong as early as possible and reduce damage for companies," Park said during a Cabinet meeting.Park also expressed regret about North Korea's suspension of the complex."The Gaesong Industrial Complex needs revolutionary changes for internationalization, not just normalization. In order for that to happen, safety devices for the promises North Korea made with the international community should be guaranteed,"

May 14, 2013
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