Celebs Go "Gifting" at Award Ceremonies CBS News Free Gift Bags Greet Stars At Awards Ceremonies As Companies Try To Promote Their Products | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | In this Jan. 20, 2008 file photo, actress Virginia Madsen leaves some of the gifting suites along Main Street at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. (AP P...
Toyota adds new Prius to global recall list DNA India | TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp said it would recall nearly half a million new Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems as it battled criticism of its response to the spiralling safety crisis. | The world's largest automaker, whose reputation for quality is on the line, is under fire for two ...
Asian editorial excerpts+ Breitbart TOKYO, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Selected editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press: | RUSSIA'S WORDS NOT ENOUGH (The JoongAng Daily, Seoul) | Less than three weeks after a Korean student studying abroad was attacked and killed by a group of R...
North Korea warns US, South of nuclear build-up The Siasat Daily | Seoul, March 08: North Korea said on Sunday it will bolster its atomic arsenal and was no longer bound by the cease fire that ended the Korean War due to joint US-South Korean military drills, which start this week. | The comments come just days af...
NKorean executed for sneaking news out: report The Siasat Daily | Seoul, March 04: A North Korean firing squad publicly executed a factory worker for sneaking news out of the reclusive communist country via his illicit mobile phone, Seoul-based radio said Thursday. | The armaments factory worker was accused of di...
North Korean man executed for calling a friend in South Korea on mobile phone The Daily Mail | A North Korean man has been executed by firing squad for calling a friend in South Korea on his mobile phone. | The brutal communist regime, which is technically at war with South Korea, has warned its 24 million population that any contact with th...
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G-20 Nations Struggle With Consensus The New York Times | DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - For years, the power brokers who gathered here to mull over the state of the world worried collectively about an outdated system of global governance. From t...
China Bank Stocks Decline Wall Street Journal By COLIN NG AND PHILIP VAHN | SINGAPORE -- Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday with the Shanghai and Hong Kong bourses were being dragged lower by losses in banking stocks on ...
UN official says North Korea increasing punishment The Boston Globe | SEOUL, South Korea-North Korea is meting out harsher punishment to citizens who try to flee the country, a sign that overall human rights conditions remain dire in the communist ...
Jaycee Dugard's Family Sues for Damages CBS News Kidnapping Victim, Family Cite "Various Lapses" By Calif. Corrections Dept. | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Play CBS Video Video Jaycee Dugard's Journal Released | Psychologist Brian Russell spoke to Harry smith about passages from a journa...
Ghadafi Calls "Holy War" on Switzerland CBS News Gadhafi's Son Arrested in Geneva in 2008; Salvo Difficult to Dismiss During Tense Islamic-Western Relations | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | After two centuries of neutrality, Switzerland found itself in a bizarre and unprecedented situati...
Seinfeld to Judge "Marriage Ref" Disputes CBS News Ref, Seinfeld, And Celeb Panel Will Judge Couples' Quarrels On NBC's New "Marriage Ref" Series | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | In this Jan. 10, 2010 file photo, actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld arrives at the NBC Universal Winter 2010 pr...
Report: NKorea Has Medium-Range Missile Division The New York Times | Filed at 12:14 a.m. ET | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable of striking U.S. forces in Japan and Guam, a South Korean news agency said Tuesday. | The report came as North Korea stepped up its war rhetoric against the U.S. and South Korea aft...
South Korea back on track Asia Times | By Robert M Cutler | MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery path last month after faltering in January, Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said on Friday, backed by a report that attributed earlier negative data to one-off factors such as heav...
