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...infuriated the community. One neighbor snarls, "They are too rich to even look at ordinary people." So there was no sympathy on Jan. 7 when police arrested Thieu, 38, then raided his house, hauling off reams of documents and more than $250,000 in cash. The charge: his Dong Nam Telecom Trade and Service Co., the sole domestic distributor for Nokia and Samsung, was accused of dodging at least $6.5 million in import and value-added taxes last year...
...these fraudsters, getting rich and cheating the government. If we're not careful, we'll lose our country to such people." Thieu's case will only intensify the suspicions. State media has reported that 33 companies, some of them government owned, are being investigated due to their ties to Dong Nam Telecom...
...trial date has been set for Thieu. As for his brother, he's been questioned and released without being charged. Thieu's family insists that both are innocent. Meanwhile, some sympathizers wonder if Dong Nam is being targeted not because it was unusually corrupt but because its owners lost the support of patrons within the government who had previously looked away. After all, tax evasion is so pervasive in Vietnam, says Thai, that he's been called a "sucker" for bothering to pay them. In Thieu's neighborhood, people don't much care whether he's guilty...
...stash of short-and medium-range missiles, including at least 100 Nodong missiles capable of striking Japan. U.S. intelligence officials say Pyongyang wants to become the first rogue state capable of striking the U.S. homeland with a missile. In 1998 the North Koreans test-fired a three-stage Taepo Dong-1 rocket that landed in the Pacific Ocean. The Pentagon believes that North Korea is developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Taepo Dong-2, that could reach Alaska, Hawaii and possibly California. The North Koreans had pledged not to test-fire any long-range weapons until this year. If testing...
...confident and scornful of the anti-communist ideology from decades past, they feel a sentimental bond with Koreans on the other side of the barbed wire. Of course, there are plenty of South Koreans who still see the North as a threat. "We have gone too far," says Lee Dong Kwan, associate editor of the daily Dong-A Ilbo. And on Saturday, some 30,000 demonstrators rallied in Seoul to show support for the U.S. military presence in the South...