Friends for hire: Young Chinese rent out their time to earn extra cash
NEW YORK -- Yang, a 27-year-old blogger in Beijing, was in an IKEA store to meet her first client, a young man who was paying 125 yuan ($17) an hour for her time and company.
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‘Shogun’ Remake: This Time, the White Man Is Only One of the Stars
Gina Balian, a television executive who had worked on the hit series “Game of Thrones” for HBO, had just left to help FX start a new limited series division when an agent sent her a nearly 1,200-page novel.
Singapore investigates money changer over suspected fraudulent trading
A probe into a 43-year-old woman and 34-year-old man, who are respectively the director and compliance manager of Samlit, has started on Friday, according to a joint statement by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the city state’s police.
India’s ‘Whitey on the moon’ moment
The Chandrayaan-3 moon mission was not for all Indians.
Taekwondo instructor killed his 7-year-old student and the boy’s parents, Sydney police say
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A taekwondo instructor killed a 7-year-old student at his academy and the boy’s parents before going to a Sydney hospital with stab and slash wounds on his body, police said Wednesday.
Chinese man arrested in Australia faces extradition to US over North Korea tobacco smuggling
Jin Guanghua was arrested in Victoria state in March in response to a request from the United States and remains in custody, Australia’s Attorney General’s Department said.
Australian Taekwondo instructor arrested over murder of 3 South Koreans
Australian police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a Taekwondo instructor on suspicion of murdering a South Korean-born family of three.
South Korea forced labour victim receives US$45,000, first to get ‘compensation’ from Japan firm
The family of a South Korean man forced to work for a Japanese company during Japan’s 1910-1945 occupation has received money from the Japanese firm he worked for, marking the first time a forced labour victim has secured such funds in a legal case.