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...past year, however, Yang has had to defend himself against rumors of questionable business practices and tax evasion. Some of his bad publicity surrounds construction of a Dutch-style residential housing and theme park near Shenyang in northeast China. The massive project, which includes re-creations of Amsterdam streets, luxury apartments, botanical gardens and an indoor beach, reportedly will cost $360 million. The size of the project has raised concerns among investors that Euro-Asia's own financial standing might be undermined. Both Yang and the company say the two operations are totally separate...
...capital of the ancient Koguryo kingdom?that stretched from Siberia to Seoul in its 5th century heyday?has always been insular. Even today, reaching this historical jewel of China's Jilin province is no easy task. From Beijing it means an overnight train to the Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests of the precipitous peaks of the Changbai range. Simply reaching Ji'an's narrow valley sanctuary along the Yalu River in one piece feels like...
...flourish. "The stela of the great King." That's how the locals know it. Which King and of what kingdom she is not entirely sure. "An ancient kingdom," she explains with a dismissive brush of her hand. She tells me instead how she works during the week in Shenyang at her sister's restaurant to make ends meet, and would like to know if I would be interested in using her husband's private taxi service while I'm in Ji'an, or if I would speak a few words in English to her young son. It seems the contingencies...
...there seemed no end to mishaps: a U.S. bombing raid mistakenly killed more than 10 civilians, and more than 300 British soldiers were quarantined after 38 were struck down by a contagious gastric illness. CHINA Confusion Says Three North Koreans who sought asylum in a U.S. consulate in Shenyang, and two others at the Canadian embassy in Beijing, were finally allowed to fly to South Korea via Singapore. But confusion surrounded the fate of five other North Korean defectors seized by Chinese police in the grounds of the Japanese consulate in Shenyang. Japan demanded the Chinese hand them back...
...Philippines. SENTENCED. THOMAS CRANDALL, 47, Roman Catholic priest, to four years and three months in prison by order of a federal justice for dealing drugs from his Florida rectory and New Orleans condominium; in Pensacola, Florida. SENTENCED. LIU YONG, 31, former legislator in the northeastern Chinese industrial hub of Shenyang, to death by order of a provincial court; in Tieling. Liu was convicted for property damage, bribery, illegal business, possession of guns and obstruction of justice in a corruption scandal...