The crown for “Unlikely Celebrity Feud of the Week” goes to Tommy Lee and US aquatic theme park SeaWorld. Forget world peace, these entities are dueling over the particulars of whale masturbation. Tommy has slammed SeaWorld for the way it breeds whales and, in particular, the way in which they extract semen from its famous [...]
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James Bond’’s ‘Goldfinger’ Aston Martin to fetch £4m at auction
June 2nd, 2010 |
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The Aston Martin car that James Bond drove in the film Goldfinger is expected to fetch 4 million pounds at an auction.
Hitting the open market for the first time, the DB5 sports car Sean Connery drove, comes complete with the full complement of ”Q Branch” gadgets including machine guns, bullet-proof shield, revolving number plates, [...]
The week ahead
May 30th, 2010 |
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Relations with North Korea will loom large over regional elections in South Korea
• SOUTH KOREANS will get the opportunity to judge the government’s handling of fraught relations with its northern neighbour on Wednesday June 2nd. Mayoral elections in the country’s largest cities and elections for provincial governors will prove a test of the policies of President Lee Myung-bak and a measure of his popularity. Tensions are high after North Korea severed ties with the South and threatened military action over accusations that it was responsible for sinking a South Korean naval vessel. North Korea accuses Mr Lee of fabricating the incident to bolster his party’s support in the elections.
• CLIMATE experts from around the world are set to meet in Bonn for a two-week summit starting on Monday May 31st. The German city is the latest venue for difficult talks on a new international climate treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol in 2012. A UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December failed to produce anything beyond a non-binding political declaration. Hopes are low of significant progress that might end with a legally binding deal at the next important climate meeting in Cancun in November. Divisions remain between rich and developing countries over who should bear the costs and the biggest burden of reducing emissions. …
FDS Networks Group – Corporate moves
February 19th, 2010 |
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Lee Joo Hai has resigned as independent director/audit committee member wef Feb 16
Reason for cessation: Mr Lee has been a Director of the Company since June 15, 2000. He has indicated his wish to resign from the Board so that he is better placed to render service to the FDS Group in a professional capacity
Samsung’s leadership saga: All in the family
January 28th, 2010 |
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Lee Kun-hee may return
JUSTICE in South Korea can be elastic. Industrialists who break the law have had their sentences commuted or been pardoned on the basis of their contributions to the national economy, sweeping them back to their corner offices. Lee Kun-hee, the patriarch of Samsung, appears to be on the same trajectory.
In early January Mr Lee appeared at a big American electronics show, a rare act for a notoriously private person. Upon his return to South Korea Mr Lee said he was “thinking about” returning to a formal role at Samsung, whose sales account for about a fifth of the country’s gross domestic product and which the Lee family controls through a convoluted web of shareholdings. …
KEPCO wins a nuclear contract: Atomic dawn
December 30th, 2009 |
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Korean reactors trump Western ones
IT IS usually the northerly of the two Koreas that attracts attention for its nuclear prowess. But on December 27th a South Korean consortium seized the limelight by winning a $20 billion contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates. The consortium, led by Korea Electric Power (KEPCO), a state-controlled utility, could earn another $20 billion running the plants over their projected lifespan of 60 years.
Competition for the contract had been stiff. GE and Hitachi, two engineering giants, had launched a joint bid, as had a consortium led by France’s nuclear champion, Areva. France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, had lobbied energetically on behalf of the latter group. But South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, was equally keen. As a former boss of Hyundai Construction, he has first-hand experience both of vying for contracts in the Gulf and of building nuclear plants. Mr Lee is said to have promised to share some tips on boosting manufacturing, a fond ambition of the Emirates. …
Seoul in arms cut plea to North
August 15th, 2009 |
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South Korea’s president has called for talks with North Korea on cutting conventional weapons on the two nations’ heavily fortified border.
Lee Myung-bak also renewed a pledge to provide aid if the communist state gave up its nuclear arms programme.
Mr Lee’s comments came in a speech to mark the end of Japanese colonial rule over the Korean peninsula in 1945.
Ties between the two sides, technically still at war, have deteriorated since Mr Lee came to power last year.
"If the North and South reduce conventional weapons and troops, enormous resources will be freed up to improve the economies on both sides," the South Korean leader said.
The two Koreas have more than one million troops deployed near the Demilitarised Zone that has divided the peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean War.
Mr Lee also warned that "nuclear weapons do not guarantee North Korea’s security. They only cloud its future".
Instead, he said Seoul was ready to help the impoverished North end its international isolation if it halted its nuclear weapons programme.
"Now is the time for the North and South to come to the table and talk about these issues," Mr Lee said.
Since taking office in February 2008, Mr Lee has been pursuing a tougher stance than his predecessors on nuclear and other issues.
Pyongyang has so far made no comment in response to the South Korean president’s suggestion.
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