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Actress Ok So-ri could face 18 months in prison for adultery

(via www.nt2099.com) 2 days ago

Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month jail sentence for actress Ok So-ri, who admits adultery, and six months in jail and two years' probation for her paramour, a singer identified as Jung.

Tags: korea, singer, actress, court, prison


Ok Sori Could Face 18 Months in Jail for Adultery

(via seoulfull.wordpress.com) 2 days ago

Ok Sori Could Face 18 Months in Jail for Adultery

Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month jail sentence for actress Ok So-ri, who admits adultery, and six months in jail and two years' probation for her paramour, a singer identified as Jung. Korea is one of a handful of ...

Tags: korea, singer, actress, court


NJR: Singapore Democracy and Justice System

(via www.fuckedgaijin.com) 4 days ago

Singapore's High Court fined the Wall Street Journal Asia S$25,000...

Tags: asia, system, court, singapore, democracy


Godzilla's fearsome lawyers

(via www.japanprobe.com) 5 days ago

Remember the above-pictured Subway advertisement that was subject to a lawsuit and eventual settlement over the unauthorized use of Godzilla's image?

Tags: japan, blog, money, court, fire, threat, advertisement, lawsuit


Three sentenced to death for Beijing taxi murder spree

(via www.channelnewsasia.com) 5 days ago

Three sentenced to death for Beijing taxi murder spree

BEIJING: A Beijing court has sentenced three men to death for a spree of taxi driver killings that haunted Chinas capital for years, Chinese media reported Friday.

Tags: chinese, beijing, media, men, death, court, murder


Actress faces jail time for adultery

(via www.dramabeans.com) 6 days ago

Actress faces jail time for adultery

I hadn't intended on posting about actress Ok So-ri's current adultery case, because South Korean law is one subject that I freely admit is beyond me. But the news has hit the international newswire, so here we go:...

Tags: korean, korea, film, women, international, family, actress, system, court, south korean, rights, law, rate


Life sought for man who threw boy from condo

(via search.japantimes.co.jp) 6 days ago

Life sought for man who threw boy from condo

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Prosecutors sought life in prison Tuesday for a man charged with throwing a 9-year-old boy to his death from the 15th floor of a Kawasaki residential complex.

Tags: man, life, death, boy, 2006, court, google, prison, trial


Don't Insult A Hostess

(via www.fuckedgaijin.com) 6 days ago

Don't Insult A Hostess

A Kyodo news report (Japanese) says that a court has ruled that a man insulted a 21 year old hostess and must pay her 60,000 yen in compensation. The...

Tags: japanese, man, court, compensation


Sex-on-beach tourists avoid jail

(via www.msnbc.msn.com) 6 days ago

Sex-on-beach tourists avoid jail

A British couple convicted of having sex on a Dubai beach had their prison sentences suspended by an appeals court on Tuesday in a case that exposed a cultural divide in this glitzy Gulf boomtown.

Tags: couple, court, sex, british, prison, beach


Five-Year Old Orphan From North Korea Finds "New Life"

(via koreabeat.com) 7 days ago

Five-Year Old Orphan From North Korea Finds

A judge in Seoul has ordered the Ministry of Unification not to deport a five-year old to China. The child entered South Korea two years ago with his mother, who was sent back to North Korea by authorities in South Korea.

Tags: new, china, chinese, world, korean, korea, life, government, live, family, woman, money, south korea, death, children, seoul, 2006, parents, court, north korea, mother, child, relationship, education, koreans, birth, pregnant, lawsuit


Cheongju Judge: "OK, You're Not a Rapist, But You Do Need a Driver's License"

(via koreabeat.com) 9 days ago

Cheongju Judge:

One judge in Cheongju had a hard time believing the story of the victim in his courtroom.nIt has been decided that it is difficult to recognize harm from a sexual assault if the woman who claims to be be a victim ...

Tags: woman, court, arrested, prison


Music producer Tetsuya Komuro released on Y30 mil bail

(via www.nt2099.com) 12 days ago

Music producer Tetsuya Komuro released on Y30 mil bail

Prosecutors charged once high-flying pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro with fraud on Friday for concluding a contract to sell music copyrights that did not belong to him and swindling an investor out of 500 million yen....

Tags: music, court, osaka, fraud


Go Hyun-jung to take on her first sageuk

(via www.dramabeans.com) 13 days ago

Go Hyun-jung to take on her first sageuk

Go Hyun-jung (What's Up Fox) is a kdrama veteran, but she's about to make her sageuk debut only now in MBC's large-scale sageuk drama Queen Seon-deok. This will mark her television return after her previous series, the cop drama...

Tags: new, china, 2008, series, men, woman, debut, drama, female, beautiful, power, court


'Virgin' marriage annulment overturned

(via www.msnbc.msn.com) 16 days ago

'Virgin' marriage annulment overturned

A French appeals court on Monday reinstated the marriage of a Muslim man who had sought an annulment because his bride lied about being a virgin.

Tags: man, court, marriage, muslim


Nintendo Sued For Patent Infringement

(via kotaku.com) 18 days ago

Earlier this year, Nintendo was on the receiving end of a ruling that the company's GameCube, Wavebird and Classic Wii controllers were in violation of a patent filing dating back to 2000 for a "3D controller with vibration.

Tags: japan, new, video, 2008, us, popular, 2007, games, style, business, game, new york, system, 2006, court, law, wii, technology, video game, google, dating, nintendo, video games, trial, injury, lawsuit


Tetsuya Komuro on the way to court

(via www.japundit.com) 25 days ago

PTetsuya Komuro, a top producer of Japanese pop music, front, sits inside a car as he heads to Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office in Osaka, western Japan Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008.

Tags: japan, japanese, music, 2008, court, arrested, car, osaka, fraud


Richard Li and EEG out-of-court settlement; Isabella is free

(via worldofhkentertainment.b...) 25 days ago

Richard Li and EEG out-of-court settlement; Isabella is free

Isabella Leung and Richard Li developed a relationship that differed by at least 20 years 「忘年戀」. They started after EEG brought the 'lawsuit of the century' against Isabella. After dragging on for almost half a year...

Tags: us, love, group, movie, girl, star, film, english, free, family, woman, business, money, future, court, development, movies, hollywood, relationship, fight, energy, birthday, rumor, lawsuit


Dad Faces Death Penalty for Burning Children Alive

(via feedproxy.google.com) 26 days ago

Dad Faces Death Penalty for Burning Children Alive

Today, prosecutors announced that a man accused of murdering his 11-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son by setting his SUV on fire with the children inside will face the death penalty. The story is quite tragic...

Tags: man, life, women, business, death, children, court, fire


Kyoto Utano Youth Hostel

(via japanvisitor.blogspot.co...) 27 days ago

Just off the winding road that heads out of western Kyoto, from the Golden Pavilion past Ryoanji Temple and Ninnaji Temple, is the recently renovated Kyoto Utano Youth...

Tags: japan, japanese, new, people, tokyo, style, children, book, list, beautiful, internet, court, yahoo, modern, aid, youth, dating, flickr, temple, tennis, twins