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...runs one of Beijing's largest apartment complexes, has attracted renters for more than two years by lashing an illegal decoder to its satellite dish and pirating Major League Baseball and other programs. Soon the network plans to present evidence to the Chinese government, which has been touting its crackdown on copyright violations that cost foreign firms up to $1 billion last year. "I find it amazing that a Foreign Ministry company would use a smuggled decoder to rip off these shows," says DAVID CANTALUPO, ESPN's general manager in China. The ministry's company insists it bought rights...
...because they want our land," the document reads. Ksor Kok has said in interviews that he does not advocate violence, though his website has outlined plans for independence. He accuses Vietnamese officials of forcibly sterilizing minorities and of religious persecution. International groups like Freedom House have also documented a crackdown on banned evangelical Christian "house churches" that claim many minority converts...
ZIMBABWE Press Crackdown The Zimbabwe government sacked the editors of two state-controlled newspapers and rejected a Commonwealth plan to send a delegation to Harare, as President Robert Mugabe seeks to tighten his grip ahead of elections next year. The chairman of Zimpapers, the government-controlled company that publishes the Herald and Sunday Mail, was dismissed two weeks ago; earlier this year a bomb destroyed the printing press of the opposition Daily News. U.K. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook warned that Zimabwe risked isolation from the Commonwealth by refusing to cooperate with the proposed ministerial visit...
PAKISTAN Opposition Arrests Pakistan's military government arrested 22 opposition leaders and more than 1,500 activists during a nationwide crackdown in anticipation of pro-democracy rallies. In line with a ban on public gatherings, police barricaded a proposed venue for a rally planned to coincide with the country's national day. The arrests were made as Pakistanis voted in 20 district elections trumpeted as a step toward restoring democracy...
...business owners are failing to withhold income and other taxes from their employees' paychecks. Some companies are even bragging on the Net or in seminars about how easily they get away with it, making spurious claims that the taxes apply only to foreign corporations. Offenders caught in the new crackdown could face time in jail and severe fines. But working stiffs don't get off the hook either. In the event that your boss manages to dodge the feds, you will have to foot the bill. So if you think he or she is cheating the IRS, call...