Beijing warn Manila regarding the South China Sea

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China also remains committed to maintaining the stability of the region and regional cooperation, "

Beijing (Reuters)-the Chinese Government warned again not to complicate the issue in the Philippines in the South China Sea, while asking the two countries dispute in that region to the International Court of justice.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei of China in Beijing, Tuesday, asserts, China has always been committed to resolving the dispute in the South China Sea through bilateral dialogue with each country who have disputes with China in the area.

"China also remains committed to maintaining the stability of the region and regional cooperation," he said, adding.

Hong Lei said a settlement through dialogue bilaterally with countries that dispute is one of the agreements reached between China and ASEAN in accordance with the agreed behaviour to defuse tension in the South China Sea.

He warned the Philippines not to complicate the situation in the South China Sea and returning calls to resolve the dispute between the two countries through bilateral dialogue.

The dispute between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea had heated up after the two countries clashed briefly patrol last year. In addition to the Philippines, China is also in dispute with Viet Nam, Malaysia, and Brunei in the South China Sea.

The Philippines carrying case dispute in the South China Sea based on the rules contained in the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). UNCLOS is a Convention in the UNITED NATIONS, one of which set up the territorial waters of countries that became members.

According to the Philippines, the Chinese claims in the South China Sea is contrary to the rules contained in UNCLOS. The Philippines has asked the International Court of Justice to declare the claim that China doesn't match the rule. The Philippines estimated the International Court takes about three to four years before issuing its decision.
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South Korea boost missile defenses

South Korea and the United States Marines follow Winter military exercises on Pyeonchang, some 180km from Seoul, South Korea, Thursday (7/2). North Korea has vowed to launch more rockets and nuclear test in response to UN censure of the launch of a long-range missile last December.(REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won)

... will speed up the development of ballistic missiles with a range of 800 kilometers ... "

Seoul (AFP)-South Korea, Wednesday, States will accelerate the development of long-range missiles that can reach all areas of North Korea in response to Pyongyang's third nuclear test. Yesterday the Pyongyang test fly system to confirm the success of their "mini" nuclear weapons. A free trial of it to cause seismic activity equivalent to 4.9 on the Richter scale with a roughly seven-kiloton warhead. Hiroshima atomic bomb by The Little Boy bomb on August 6, 1945, consisting of 20 kilotons.

"We will accelerate the development of ballistic missiles with a range of 800 kilometers," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of South Korea, Kim Min-Seok, told reporters. Not just Pyongyang that could be achieved, but also Beijing and China's cities in the country-side Bamboo Curtain.

In October last year, South Korea has reached an agreement with the United States expanded the range of their missiles system up to three times as much. South Korea based it is essential in order to ward off missiles North Korea nuclear program and answers to Pyongyang.

The UNITED NATIONS puts soldiers in South Korea 28,500 and guarantee a "nuclear umbrella" If the adversary State Ginseng that attacked the use of nuclear weapons. In return, South Korea should be subject to the provisions of the limitation of the ability of misilnya.

Based on the agreement in last October, South Korea develop missiles capable of roaming is limited to 300 kilometers.

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Tackling South Korea's suicide rates

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8 November 2011 Last updated at 01:09 GMT The head of a savings bank jumped from his Seoul offices in an apparent suicide last month More than 40 South Koreans a day are taking their lives and the government in Seoul has recognised it is a problem that needs tackling. But, as the BBC's Lucy Williamson finds out, the reasons for such a high suicide rate are complicated and not easy to solve.

The call-centre for Seoul's emergency services is a windowless bunker, buried alongside the forested slopes of Namsan hill.

It used to be the home of South Korea's spy agency. Now it is where the city's emergency calls come in: reports of traffic accidents, crimes, and - increasingly - suicides.

According to the government, more than 40 South Koreans a day are taking their own lives - five times as many as in their parents' day.

Unsurprisingly, the operators here say calls from people wanting to commit suicide - or witnesses to it - are increasing.

Giant screens flash details of all the calls coming in to the rows of operators. They sit surrounded by dashboards of coloured lights and communications equipment. There is a constant blur of noise.

It does not take long before the first suicide call flashes up.

"There's a person trying to jump off a building," the caller says, "and he has a knife in his hand."

One of the team, Ki-jong Gwan, says the operators have had no formal training in handling these kinds of calls, but that staff often share tips amongst themselves.

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End Quote Dr Kang-ee Hong Child psychologist "I think there's a limit to what we can do," he said. "Some of the calls I remember were from people who'd already decided to take their lives and just wanted to ask that their bodies be taken care of.

"Others call up seeking advice on the best way to commit suicide. There are some situations where we've intervened and helped stop the person taking their life. But I think there needs to be a more fundamental solution."

Taboo subject

Across the city, in a small psychiatric hospital, Jong-sun Woo is starting another day in the ward she shares with five other women.

Jong-sun is 21 years old. She has tried to commit suicide many times over the past 10 years, and now chooses to live here in the hospital, where she is receiving support and counselling.

"I can't think how many times I've tried to kill myself," she told me. "It must now be over 20 times, it's been so many I've lost count."

She told me that she had kept her feelings of depression from those around her, and that when they had discovered her attempts at suicide, her family and friends blamed her for her depression.

"They said my mind was weak, and that if I could boost my spirits, I could make myself better. I felt a real sense of despair," she said. "I didn't think it was my fault but when people acted like that I began to wonder if perhaps it was. And the feeling lingered."

Jong-sun believes there is little real understanding of mental illness in South Korea, despite the spiralling suicide rate. Only here, after 10 years, has she managed to find the counselling she needed, she says, and is starting to feel better. Awareness was starting to improve, she said, but "I think it's a bit late".

Jong-sun Woo (left) is helping to raise awareness of mental health issues in street campaigns

But the real question is why this is happening at all in a country that is richer, more stable and more influential than at any time in its history?

South Korea is now the world's 12th largest economy. A place where you can surf the internet on the underground, dance the night away in a salsa club, and buy a decent cappuccino on your way to work. And yet people here seem less happy than during the years of hardship after the Korean War.

Kang-ee Hong, a child psychologist, says that over the past 40 years, South Korean parents have abandoned traditional values in favour of one single goal.

"From the beginning of childhood, the importance of money and achievement are emphasised by their parents, so they feel that unless you are successful in school grades and a good job, good prestigious college, you're not successful, and the parents behave as if 'you're not my child'," Dr Hong said.

Even young children typically work from early morning until late at night, and often at weekends too, to get into the best university they can and eventually secure a well-paying job. The pressure is intense, and the routine relentless - for years on end.

Dr Hong says that, for parents, the pressure to push their children even harder has led to them overcoming the stigma of going to a psychiatrist. But, he says, they often come for the wrong reasons.

They come to me to help their child work harder, he says, "to have better grades by being treated for ADHD (Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder) - because the school performance is so important".

On a pier a couple of hours' drive outside Seoul, Jong-sun Woo is helping to set up games and quizzes near some fairground rides.

This is a prime spot for suicides and the local police have asked her activist group to run a street campaign to raise awareness about mental health.

The stall is attracting a sizeable crowd. Suicide is still largely a taboo subject here, but there is also a real curiosity amongst the public to find out what is causing it.

Parliament recently told the government to do more to tackle the problem - raising national awareness in a way that has not been seen until now. And money has started to flow.

But this is a deep-rooted problem that has grown rapidly throughout the country - some of the highest rates are in the rural areas - and activists say it will not be anything like as quick to fix.

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Obama Commends Trade Pact With South Korea

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama hailed a just-completed trade deal with South Korea Thursday as he welcomed the country's president to the White House, offering warm praise for a solid ally in a world in flux.

At a joint news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Obama said that the long-delayed trade pact approved late Wednesday by Congress is "a win for both our countries," and that he and Lee had agreed to move forward with it quickly.

Obama said the deal would increase U.S. exports by $11 billion and support 70,000 jobs, while opening Korea's market to U.S. goods. Alluding to an issue that held up the deal, Obama said, "I'm very pleased it will help level the playing field for American automakers."

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Obama is scheduled to take Lee with him to the Detroit area on Friday to tour a GM plant.

Lee said the trade deal, which still requires approval from South Korea's legislature, "will mark a turning point in the enduring alliance between our two nations" and called it "a historic achievement that will become a significant milestone."

Lee's state visit, officially begun Thursday morning with a South Lawn arrival ceremony full of pomp and circumstance, gave Obama a chance to celebrate a victory after going to Seoul last November to announce a free-trade pact with Lee — only to stand with his ally empty-handed because their negotiators had not been able to finish the deal.

For Obama, it was a rare bipartisan achievement amid political gridlock over his jobs agenda heading into his re-election campaign, and the president touted it as proof of his ability to work with the opposition.

"This trade deal, this Korea free trade act, shows we are happy to work with Republicans where they are willing to put politics behind the interests of the American people," Obama said.

Lee was to address a joint session of Congress Thursday afternoon before wrapping up his visit with a state dinner, the Obama administration's fifth such gala. Earlier Obama entertained Lee in a less formal setting, taking him out to eat at an upscale Korean restaurant in Virginia Wednesday evening.

It was a sign of the close relationship between the two leaders, which both underscored during their news conference.

Obama called Korea "one of our strongest allies" and praised Lee's "vision and commitment."

Lee, who took time Wednesday to visit the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall, returned the compliment, speaking of "the strong partnership and friendship between our two countries."

Obama also had strong words for communist-governed North Korea, saying that "if Pyongyang continues to ignore its international obligations it will invite even more pressure and isolation." Asked whether North Korea might one day undergo the kind of popular uprising that toppled governments in the Arab Spring, Obama suggested that someday it might.

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"I think that obviously the people of North Korea have been suffering under repressive policies for a very long time and none of us can look at a crystal ball and known when suddenly that type of government collapses on its own," Obama said. "What we know though is what people everywhere ... are looking for is the ability to determine their own destiny."

Lee joined Obama in condemning North Korea and calling on the country to "abandon its nuclear ambitions."

The U.S. and South Korea, Lee said, "speak with one voice" on the issue.

The trade deal — America's biggest free-trade agreement since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico — will elevate the U.S.-South Korean alliance, traditionally defined by their opposition to North Korea. More than 28,000 U.S. troops remain based in South Korea as a deterrent.

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He had been considered the front-runner even before he declared his candidacy, but in the past few weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is more often the runner-up.

Once the conservative Texas Gov. Rick Perry threw his cowboy hat into the ring for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, the seemingly more moderate candidate, Romney, has lost momentum in national polls. But while Perry's southern regional charm and conservative ideology certainly pose extra challenges for the once-on-top contender, Romney could still have plenty of time to make up the difference—even in the deep red South where the latest conventional wisdom seems to write him off.

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As of Tuesday, according to the RealClearPolitics nationwide polling average, Romney trails Perry 18 percent to 23 percent. Former Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin, who's not even in the race yet, is next with 10.5 percent, followed by other more conservative candidates, like Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who both average in single digits. Up against the rest of these top players, Romney, who has gained negative attention from conservative voters over some policies he's backed in the past, like Massachusetts' health insurance mandate, appears to be more to the center. In order to win the more conservative primaries, then, experts say Romney will have to work hard to convince voters that his commitment to conservative, small-government values is up to their standards, especially in states like South Carolina, considered to be the most to the right among the red states.

Up to now, it's left to be seen whether his campaign has decided play a strong primary game the South. Though he made headlines speaking in Texas on Tuesday, Romney has been spending more of his time recently in New Hampshire, where the first primary is expected to happen. His campaign announced Tuesday that on Labor Day, he'll be speaking to conservatives in the Granite State as a headliner for a Tea Party rally there rather than joining the other five top-polling GOP candidates at the Palmetto Freedom Forum the same day in South Carolina hosted by Sen. Jim DeMint and the American Principles Project. While Romney's planned absence at Freedom Forum event has led some to suggest that he might be ignoring the South, his campaign insists that's not the case and says he has other plans to visit South Carolina in September. His spokesperson, Andrea Saul, says the campaign wants "to win anywhere [his] name is on the ballot."

Some political analysts say that's entirely possible, but others have serious doubts. According to Jennifer Duffy, a political editor at the Cook Political Report, although Romney received endorsements from conservatives like DeMint in 2008, there are more conservative candidates out there, and the Tea Party has upped the ante. "If Romney stands a chance [in South Carolina], it's because other people imploded," says Duffy. "They've set a pretty high bar for conservatives in South Carolina. Bachmann crosses it. Perry crosses it. Now, I don't think that Romney crosses it."

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South Carolinian Robert Oldendick, executive director of the Institute for Public Service and Policy Research at the University of South Carolina, agrees that Romney doesn't quite match up to the more libertarian leanings of the state. "He doesn't have the kind of record in terms of conservative issue positions that really resonate with the primary voters that are going to turn out in South Carolina," Oldendick says. "Whoever that candidate is on the more conservative side of the Republicans will win this state."

In addition to political ideology, Romney's Mormon faith could pose a problem with some voters, though Oldendick suspects that won't be as big of an issue for him as his policies. Duffy also says regionalism is something that could work against Romney, especially with Texas-bred Perry in the race. People tend to like people who are most like them, she says, and for southerners who identify with place, that's not the East Coast businessman Romney. "Perry does get to be that southern candidate," says Duffy.

Updated on 08/30/11: Romney’s campaign has announced that he has changed his schedule and will now be attending the Palmetto Freedom Forum event in South Carolina. “We’re pleased we were able to arrange our schedule so that Gov. Romney can attend Labor Day events in both New Hampshire and South Carolina,” Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul said in an E-mail to reporters on Tuesday afternoon.

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"Dr. Death" faces South Africa fees

26 September 2011 booth 17: 08 GMT Wouter Basson was in 2002 67 charges, including murder, the head of South Africa's germ warfare program during the apartheid era fights continue his licence continue to practice medicine, acquitted.

Wouter Basson pays with manufacturing illegal drugs in the 1980s and early 1990s, of which some allegedly on State prisoners have been used.

The man, or Dr. death escaped a criminal conviction in 2002, argue that he acted on behalf of the South African Defence Force (SADF).

He is now a cardiologist in Cape Town.

"I this chapter 20 years ago closed," he told reporters outside the hearing in the health professional Council South Africa (HPCSA) bureaus in Pretoria. "I want the country as a doctor continues to serve."

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Mr Basson is accused Division of the SADF from 1981 to 1993, as head of chemical and biological warfare, the creation of viruses that would attack black people.

He is allegedly provided have, that security forces with cyanide capsules help them commit suicide, "clear" thousands of 120 mm mortar bombs with tear gas, and the drugs that would disorient SADF prisoners.

The charges were brought in 2007, but Mr Basson tried the hearing declared illegal, unreasonable, and an application have unfair - that last year was dismissed by the High Court in Pretoria.

Some of the fees have fallen down again but if guilty unethical as a doctor of HPCSA, Mr Basson faces his licence as a cardiologist practicing behavior to lose.

In 2002 Mr Basson was 67 charges, including murder, by a court in Pretoria acquitted conspiracy, fraud and drug possession.

He said, during the test, he was only following orders, and stood as a scientist, rot and a hepatitis epidemic had sought ways to fight the potato.

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Dougherty Gang: Cross-Country Chase Trio Were Headed South of the Border

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Three sibling suspects in a multi-state crime spree that ended in a shootout with Colorado cops planned to escape to Mexico, investigators have revealed.
Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, his sister Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, and brother Dylan Stanley-Dougherty, 26, are accused of robbing a Georgia bank, shooting at cops in two states and stealing cars in Utah. The pursuit ended in an Aug. 10 high-speed chase along I-25 near Walsenburg, about 150 miles south of Denver.
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After firing at police, the trio eventually crashed their getaway car – leading to their arrests and the discovery of at least nine firearms in or near the vehicle. These included two AK-47-type rifles, two machine pistols, two shotguns and three handguns. All but one of the weapons was loaded.
Colorado Springs police Detective Larry Dyer revealed the latest details in the case at a court hearing Sept. 20 – in which he also said the younger brother was the brains behind the enterprise.
Dyer said that after Dougherty was sentenced to register as a sex offender following a conviction for sending sexually explicit text messages to an 11-year-old girl, he decided to mount the crime spree. "During the interview, he pretty much led me to believe that he was the mastermind of this plan," added the detective.
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Each defendant faces five counts of attempted second-degree murder and five counts of first-degree assault. They have also been charged with vehicle theft, theft by receiving, and displaying fictitious or altered license plates. Each is being held on a $1.25 million bond and have yet to enter pleas. (via Newser)

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Thousands riot in south China over land grabs: report

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of people have attacked government buildings in southern China in a protest over land sales, a newspaper reported on Friday, the latest outbreak of trouble in the economic powerhouse of Guangdong province.
The protests in Lufeng, a city of 1.7 million, are the latest sign of growing public anger over land grabs, generally carried out by either private or state-linked companies but with the acquiescence of local governments.
These property disputes, in a country where the government legally owns all land, have led to protests, fights with police, imprisonment and suicides, and created a headache for the stability-obsessed ruling Communist Party.
Witnesses in Lufeng city said the protests, in which around a dozen residents were hurt, were triggered by the seizure of hectares of land and their sale to property developer Country Garden for 1 billion yuan ($156.6 million), Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported.
Directing their ire at the local seat of government and attacking buildings including the local Communist Party headquarters and a police station, the angry mob in some cases used "sticks, bricks and their fists," the Post reported.
Roads were also blocked, and a businessman said several thousand villagers had joined demonstrations outside government headquarters since Wednesday.
The trouble started on Wednesday morning when villagers demanded the return of their land, the report said.
GUANGDONG TROUBLES
The municipal government of Shanwei region, which includes Lufeng, confirmed the unrest in a statement issued late on Thursday night which said more than a dozen police officers were injured on Thursday, and six police vehicles damaged.
The Shanwei government accused villagers of having "ulterior motives" and of "inciting" other villagers to charge into the police station on Thursday afternoon by spreading rumors about police officers beating a child to death.
Four people have been detained for their role in organizing the protests on Wednesday, according to the website of Shanwei's local news service.
Earlier this year, in the Guangdong factory town of Zengcheng, thousands outraged migrant workers rioted over the alleged maltreatment of a female worker, torching government offices, smashing police cars and marching in their thousands through the streets.
Protests and incidents of "mass unrest" have risen recently, fueled by rapid economic transformation, according to Zhou Ruijin, a former deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily, writing in current affairs magazine 'China through the Ages'.
Between 1993 and 2006, the national number of recorded "mass incidents" such as riots and protests grew from 8,708 to around 90,000, Zhou wrote in the September edition of the magazine.
From 2007 to 2009, the number of such incidents was consistently above 90,000, he added.
"These conflicts are concentrated in rural land requisitions and urban housing demolition, as well as in resource development and environmental protection," wrote Zhou.
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Chinese authorities are wary of any discussion of such discontent spreading, and by Friday morning, searches for 'Lufeng' on China's Twitter-style microblogging service Weibo were blocked, with a message saying the "relevant legal regulations" prevented showing the search results.
The unrest in one of China's most economically important provinces, encompassing the famed Pearl River Delta "world factory" zone that accounts for around a third of China's exports, is a major challenge for Guangdong Communist Party chief Wang Yang.
Wang, who is widely expected to be promoted to China's highest leadership ranks in a once-in-a-decade leadership transition next year, has called for a more balanced "Happy Guangdong" development model emphasizing social harmony.
A message on the Internet bulletin board of the Southern Daily, Guangdong's official newspaper, says the residents of Wukan village have petitioned many times in 2009 and 2010 about the land disputes that triggered the riot.
"Please tell us, just who will take charge of this case? Do we really have nowhere to complain?" wrote a user.
(Additional reporting by Sisi Tang in Hong Kong and Chris Buckley and Sabrina Mao in Beijing, Writing by Sui-Lee Wee, Editing by Ken Wills and Daniel Magnowski)

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MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina - South Carolina officials are moving a school bus stop which was near a strip bar, after parents complained.

WPDE-TV reported that children had to wait in the parking lot of a strip club in Atlantic Beach to catch the school bus.

Misty Umphries, a mother who expect the decision with his children, said that she had to explain to his 4-year-old the meaning of "topless."

The County of Horry transport Director Jim Wright said earlier that the case was the focus of four blocks it needs to adapt. Wright worried that orient the arraignment of a community centre that parents suggested would require some children walk further.

Representatives of the district decided since to create two bus stops in the region. Nor is the club of the band.

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