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...As a hardline prosecutor, he oversaw the conviction of conservative former president Park Geun-hye and Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on bribery and corruption charges....
...“When the Communist military didn’t have so much advanced equipment and so many ships yet, this was the rear,” Major General Tan Yong, commander of the Taitung Area Command, told me....
...US companies have urged President Moon Jae-in of South Korea to release Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong from prison, arguing that the billionaire executive could boost Joe Biden’s efforts to shake off American...
...Jiang was in his early 70s when an unusual respiratory infection started breaking out in southern China in late 2002....
...When Xi Jinping toured an LG Display factory in the southern city of Guangzhou earlier this year, the intended message was clear: China still welcomes foreign investment....
...Cases have also ballooned in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, southern China’s manufacturing hub....
...Other possible sites are in the neighbouring state of Gujarat and the southern state of Karnataka. India has vowed to spend $30bn to overhaul its tech industry and build local chip supply chains....
...Lee was born in 1986 in the provincial city of Daegu in Korea’s conservative southern heartlands, the son of a single mother who worked as a cook in a school and invested her meagre salary in Korean stocks...
...Chinese leader Xi Jinping dispatched Liu He, his top aide and economy tsar, and state councillor Wang Yong to the site of wreckage in the mountains near Wuzhou, in southern China’s Guangxi region, after...
...Lee Jae-yong, scion of the hereditary owners of Samsung — one of the world’s most valuable tech companies — is fighting a legal battle against South Korean prosecutors and a US hedge fund....
...Managing empires Lee is serving his time at the Seoul Detention Center in a remote hilly corner on the southern outskirts of the Korean capital....
...That made Moon’s acquiescence last year in the early release of Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, who was serving a prison sentence for bribing Park Geun-hye, all the more disappointing for reformers....
...People, from business leaders to monks, have in recent days called for Lee Jae-yong to be freed from prison via a presidential pardon....
...Mr Washburne’s candidacy comes as the Trump administration begins to vet possible nominees for the top job at the World Bank, following the surprise announcement by Jim Yong Kim, the sitting president, that...
...Im Yong-kwon, another fisherman in his sixties who witnessed the 2010 shelling, said he was used to North Korea’s threats but hoped Pyongyang was not provoked into action....
...January 15-March 1, asiaartcenter.org Tainan Art Museum, Tainan Taiwan’s southern cities are doing their utmost to turn the spotlight away from the capital city....
...“But Kim Yong Chol does seem to be one of the officials that has his ear.”...
...“My relationship with Kim Yong Chol is professional,” said Mr Pompeo. “We have detailed conversations. I expect that we will continue to do that.”...
...Based in the southern port city of Qingdao, Bang Bang is one daigou who seems unfazed by the new legislation....
...Southern capitals such as Madrid had initially resisted Mr Dijsselbloem, a Dutch social democrat who made offensive comments about crisis-hit countries wasting money on “alcohol and women”....
...Thae Yong Ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to Britain, became the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to defect to South Korea in 2016....
...Thae Yong-ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to the UK, wrote in an online column that Pyongyang’s silence over the incident could be attributed to the likely theft of a computer used for deciphering...
...Thae Yong Ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to Britain who defected with his family to South Korea in 2016, had once worked with Mr Jo in the same department of the North’s foreign ministry in Pyongyang...
...In his testimony, Mr Malpass cited Chinese funding of a World Bank report due next year that would “help promote and shape” BRI, while noting that Jim Yong Kim, the US academic who leads the World Bank,...
...Executives who have withdrawn from the forum, due to take place at the end of the month, include Sir Richard Branson; Jim Yong Kim, World Bank president; Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber chief; Steve Schwarzman of...
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