2006.02.24

ROK's KT&G Shares Soar (AP). Shares in KT&G soared today after investors led by U.S. billionaire Carl Icahn made an unsolicited offer to acquire South Korea's former government tobacco monopoly. 2006.02.24

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Rejection of land seizure for road reversed (Japan Times). The Tokyo High Court has overturned a lower court ruling that barred the Tokyo Metropolitan Government from expropriating land in Akiruno, western Tokyo. 2006.02.24

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Japan-DPRK (VOA) Japan issues arrest warrants for North Koreans in spy kidnap cases. 2006.02.24

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