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...Sony aims for high note on music business with Bruce Springsteen catalogue (Nikkei Asia) 10....
...Otherwise: Tuesday: China is set to become the third country, after the US and Russia, to collect samples from the moon when its National Space Administration launches the Chang'e 5 lunar probe....
...Bruce Bennett, a defence analyst specialising in Korea at the Rand Corporation, doubted the CIA had any involvement in the raid....
...Cheong Seong-chang at the Sejong Institute said North Korea’s commitment to halt provocations while talks are under way is also key....
...In South Korea, chief executive Shin Chang-jae, tells how he got into a coffin that was nailed shut. The idea was to emerge, reborn with a new sense of purpose....
...Jennifer McPeek, the company’s chief financial officer, could receive $5.4m, while Bruce Koepfgen, its president, stands to gain $3.2m....
...“The chaebol squeeze SMEs to a level where they can’t invest,” says Prof Chang....
...Figes, the renowned Russianist, and Bruce Hood, who contributes a digestible read on the shrinking human brain....
...“South Korean people in general think we need to take the Opcon transfer,” says Park Chang-kwoun, an analyst at the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses....
...Bruce Klingner, a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, said that the announcement about the reactor was “consistent with recent statements that they are never going to...
...Yet, according to this 2006 paper by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Christina D. Romer, there is no evidence that the Fed took this into account in the critical months of 1932....
...Bruce Klingner, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst on North Korea now at the Heritage Foundation, says this hurried succession means Jong-eun will not be able to command the same semi-divine authority...
...During his illness, Kim Jong-il appointed his younger sister Kim Kyong-hui and her husband Chang Sung-taek as mentors to the Young General to help him build authority among the military and the ruling Worker...
...The New York and Beijing collector Richard Chang had come with a group from MoMA – one of 60 museum visitor groups....
...When the company formally changed its name in June last year, it also announced it would sponsor Norwich City Football Club to reaffirm its local roots....
...Observers can only surmise that they do not get on with Chang Sung-taek, who became second-in-command in June. At 64, the leader’s brother-in-law is a youngster among the Pyongyang elite....
...writes the US historian Bruce Cumings. “He is thinking, get me out of here.” The Kim boys do not even pretend to live the socialist dream any more....
...Their detentions followed the arrest earlier this week of Perry Chang, who resigned as chief financial officer in August but remained a senior executive....
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