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...already stored in their home computers to their phones, instead of paying high wireless fees to download music. Devices sporting hard drives may be too complex and expensive for the masses. Most important, record companies must embrace the idea?and so far labels seem concerned that wireless downloading will spread music piracy. For example, earlier this year South Korean record labels and three cellular providers?KTF, LG Telecom and SK Telecom?attempted to reach an agreement over copyright protection for mobile music services, but the effort has been bogged down by infighting...
...President George W. Bush signed a new law that says North Koreans are, well, North Koreans and eligible for asylum in the U.S. It also authorizes Bush to spend $80 million helping the estimated 100,000-plus refugees who have fled, mostly to China. News about the impending legislation spread in recent months. At least 140 asylum seekers have stormed embassies and foreign schools in Beijing since early September. "For North Korean defectors in China, America is the land of freedom and the most powerful country in the world," says Park Sang Hak, a Seoul-based refugee activist and former...
Running Indonesia?a fractious nation of 240 million people from more than 350 ethnic groups spread over some 17,500 islands?is a tough job at the best of times. But the country's new President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is taking over at a particularly difficult juncture. Terrorism is a constant threat. Among Asia's major developing economies, Indonesia's is growing the slowest. Recent years have witnessed a net outflow of foreign capital, frightened off not just by bomb blasts but corruption, red tape and a capricious legal system. The authorities have yet to resolve the stubborn separatist insurgency...
...terror, voters prefer Bush over Kerry by 19 points--56% to 37%--up from just 11 points a week ago. The President has widened his lead on all the so-called hard issues of national security: whether it's providing leadership in difficult times, preventing the spread of WMD or being Commander in Chief, voters choose Bush by double-digit margins...
...beloved language. A decade after the government of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur passed a law requiring the use of French in all government documents, business contracts, restaurant menus and advertisements, the champions of francophonie again have their culottes in a twist over the threat posed by the rampant spread of English. Opposition flared last month over a new proposal to make English instruction compulsory in French schools. Guardians of the language issued a manifesto calling on the E.U. to make French its official judicial language. Even President Jacques Chirac has joined in. "Nothing would be worse for humanity than...