Jail threat hangs over S.Korea auto patriarch
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The head of South Korea&#39;s Hyundai Motor  Group, the world&#39;s sixth-largest auto maker, should hear on  Thursday the result of his appeal against a 3-year jail  sentence for fraud and embezzlement.
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Some misunderstanding led to the brief detention of the leader of the Nigerian umbrella workers&#39; union, the country&#39;s security agency insisted on Saturday, as union officials vowed
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Former world boxing champion &quot;Prince&quot; Naseem Hamed has been criticised for leaving prison -- where he had been serving time for a dangerous driving conviction -- in a stretch limousine.
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The head of South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group, the world's sixth-largest auto maker, should hear on Thursday the result of his appeal against a 3-year jail sentence for fraud and embezzlement.
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A South Korean court on Monday found the  head of Hyundai Motor Group (005380.KS), the world's No.6 auto  maker, guilty of breach of trust and embezzling company funds.
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South Korean police said on Tuesday they arrested a man who confessed to burning down a 600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one national treasure because he was angry about a compensation payment.
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An appeals court yesterday suspended a three-year prison sentence for Hyundai Motor Co. chairman Chung Mong-koo, saying the tycoon is too important to South Korea's economy to go to jail for embezzlement.
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MANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa...
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Hyundai Motor Group  chief Chung Mong-koo was on Thursday handed a 3-year sentence suspended for 5 years by a South Korean appeals court, which upheld a fraud conviction by a lower court earlier this year.
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One of South Korea's richest businessmen was handed a suspended 1-Â½ year sentence on Tuesday for beating up karaoke bar workers, the latest tycoon in the country to avoid jail despite a criminal conviction.
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A judge threatened to jail the head of the state Department of Children &amp; Families if the agency can't explain why it consistently has failed to get mentally ill jail inmates into psychiatric treatment.
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A South Korean blamed for several trillion spam e-mails in recent years has been arrested, police said.
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The case, along with the detention of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, has prompted international concern about ChinaÂs crackdown on press freedom.
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Burma&#39;s ruling military junta is facing renewed criticism after extending the house arrest of detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The head of Hyundai Motor  was sentenced to three years in jail for embezzling funds from the world's No. 6 auto maker, dealing another blow to a company battling a rising won and restive labor unions.
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Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), South  Korea's biggest automaker, expects to benefit from the  precarious state of the U.S. economy as more consumers look for  value propositions in their car purchase decisions, an  executive with Hyundai's North American arm said on Monday.
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South Korea said it plans to crack down on people who demand money for organizing mass-defections of North Koreans. So-called brokers - often Koreans living in China, South Korean