S Korea pardons criminal bosses
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The South Korean president issues pardons to 400 businessmen and politicians convicted of financial crimes.
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Colombia says it will pardon 23 members of the left-wing Farc guerrilla group, to encourage a reciprocal move.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 22 -- South Korean businessman and influence peddler Tongsun Park was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for his role in the bribery scandal surrounding the United Nation's oil-for-food program for Iraq a decade ago.
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South Korea's constitutional court said it would rule Thursday on the legality of a criminal investigation into next president Lee Myung-Bak over his alleged links to a 2001 share manipulation scandal.
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South Korean prosecutors indicted Kim Seung Yun, the chairman of an industrial company, the Hanwha Group, on six charges in connection with what the authorities say was a revenge attack on employees of a bar in Seoul. Prosecutors charged Mr. Kim and a bodyguard, both arrested on May 11, with confinement and causing bodily harm with a weapon, the Seoul Central District Prosecutorsâ Office said. A Hanwha Group spokesman, Ju Cheol Beom, declined to comment.
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Argentina's Supreme Court revokes a pardon granted to a former general accused of human rights abuses.
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South Korea has announced pardons for more than 430 convicted business leaders and politicians in a bid to boost the economy 10 years after the Asian financial crisis.
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A Korean-American who spent seven years in prison for spying for South Korea Tuesday said he had returned to his homeland to help clean up the country's worst oil spill.
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One of South Korea's richest businessmen was jailed for 18 months on Monday for abducting karaoke bar workers, punching them and hitting them with a steel pipe.
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Japan will compensate former leprosy sufferers in South Korea who were forced into isolation during Tokyo's colonial rule, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Friday.
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Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher pardoned members of his staff in the midst of a patronage probe to try to keep the investigation from incriminating anyone in the governor's office, Lt. Gov. Steve Pence told a newspaper.
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Joseph Estrada, the jailed former leader  of the Philippines, walked free on Friday as President Gloria  Macapagal Arroyo faced criticism for pardoning the playboy  movie star.
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A former Hyundai CEO known as "The Bulldozer" for his determination to get things done rolled over all opposition and financial fraud allegations to win South Korea's presidency Wednesday, ending a decade of liberal rule.
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President Bush granted pardons yesterday to carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and a violator of election laws, but not to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his vice president's former top aide, who was convicted in the case of the leaked identity of a CIA operative.
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One of South Korea's richest men is given a suspended jail sentence over his conviction for a revenge beating.
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The Chinese legislature has announced plans to reform the reeducation-through-labor system used to punish minor criminal offenders.
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I.B.M., NCR and Hitachi of Japan were named in a court verdict this month in the case of a bank chief convicted of accepting more than $500,000 in bribes.