Sewol.- Ferry Disaster] JYP Entertainment probed over Sewol
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Ferry Disaster] JYP Entertainment probed over Sewol
Korean Herald
Published : 2014-06-23 20:59 Updated : 2014-06-24 01:21
Following the detainment of the runaway’s older brother Byung-il, investigators arrested Yoo Byung-ho late Sunday. He is the father-in-law of singer-songwriter Park Jin-young, CEO of JYP Entertainment.
The capture of Park’s father-in-law undermined shares of one of the nation’s top three entertainment firms. The stock price of JYP Ent. plunged 5.86 percent from a trading session earlier to close at 4,180
Death toll of migrants seeking to enter Europe via Mediterranean mounts
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By Robert Stevens 9 June 2014
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Last October, the world looked on aghast as the coffins of hundreds of men, women and children were laid out in an airport hangar on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Up to 360 people died a horrible death, drowning off the coast of the island after their boat capsized. Most of those who died in the tragedy were from Eritrea and Somalia, attempting to enter Europe by the hazardous Mediterranean Sea crossing. They were fleeing the terrible conditions at home in the hope of a better life in Europe.
In the aftermath of the tragedy there was much handwringing and crocodile tears among the European political and media elite, with promises that such an intolerable
German militarism and the US debacle in Iraq
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By Johannes Stern 21 June 2014
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The German bourgeoisie is responding to the debacle of US imperialism in Iraq by intensifying its campaign for militarism and war.
On Tuesday, during her first official visit to the US, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen spoke out in favour of a strong Bundeswehr (German armed forces) participation in an international military intervention. Germany had “key positions and capabilities, which other countries do not”, she said. The UN had asked her “that Germany one day also lead a United Nations military peace mission”, and the defence ministry was considering how the Bundeswehr could be more heavily involved.
Last weekend, federal President Joachim Gauck repeated his call for a more aggressive foreign policy and more military interventions. He
ILO report: A world blighted by poverty and inequality
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ILO report: A world blighted by poverty and inequality
10 June 2014
“[W]hen society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death… when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life… forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence… its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual…”
Frederick Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)
A large majority of the world’s population lacks essential social protections, leading to the preventable deaths of 18,000 children under five each day. This is among the findings of the World Social Protection Report 2014-15released by the