2006.01.09

ROK-Cloning. [Yonhap] South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk reportedly admits that embryonic stem cells he purportedly cloned last year were faked. 2006.01.09

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Japan-Snow (Kyodo) Updated Snow death toll now at 71. 2006.01.09

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Greenpeace says sea crash won't stop whaling protests (AFP). Greenpeace activists vowed to fight on against a Japanese whaling fleet in the icy waters of the Antarctic despite what they called a deliberate ramming of their ship. 2006.01.09

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DPRK Nukes-USA (Reuters). North Korea, in latest screed, says nuclear talks with the United States are "illogical." 2006.01.09

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Coming-of-Age Day (Mainichi ). Drunken youths, as has become the tradition, mar Coming-of-Age Day ceremonies across Japan. 2006.01.09

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DPRK-Japan-PRC (People's Daily). Stalinist North Korea slams Japan's yelling about a China threat. 2006.01.09

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Japan-PRC (Kyodo) As expected, no breakthrough in Japan-China talks on East China Sea gas row. 2006.01.09

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Japan-USN Homicide (Kyodo) U.S. Navy sailor William Oliver Reese, from Pittsgrove, New Jersey and an E-3 airman on the USS Kitty Hawk, has been sent to prosecutors after his arrest on robbery and murder charges in Yokosuka. 2006.01.09

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India-Toyota (Reuters). Toyota has declared an indefinite lockout at its factory near the southern Indian city of Bangalore after a strike by workers. 2006.01.09

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ROK Cyber Etiquette Needs Much Improvement. [Yonhap] South Koreans give themselves a failing grade in terms of online etiquette. 2006.01.09

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Japan-PRC (Kyodo) Japan, China talking -- but just for a few hours today. 2006.01.09

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Japan-Whaling  (CNN). Greenpeace, Japanese whalers clash at sea. 2006.01.09

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Lobbyist profited off Guam. [Pacific Daily News] The web of Guam money that went to lobby shops linked with disgraced Washington, D.C., power broker Jack Abramoff did not just stop with the Superior Court of Guam's about $400,000 payments at the expense of the local government's financial hardship. 2006.01.09

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Japan-Kidnapped Baby (Kyodo) Updated Three people arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a newborn in Sendai -- including the former head of a local PTA and his Filipino wife. 2006.01.09

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