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    Họa từ miệng mà ra.




    Yoshiro Mori: Tokyo Olympics chief steps down over sexism row


    EPA - Yoshiro Mori acknowledged that his comments about women were "inappropriate" and against the Olympic spirit

    The head of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee has resigned after he was criticised for making "inappropriate" remarks about women.

    Yoshiro Mori, 83, was quoted as saying women talk too much and that meetings with many female board directors would "take a lot of time".

    The remarks set off a firestorm of protest and Mr Mori apologised at the time but said he would not resign.

    But on Friday he apologised for his "inappropriate statement".

    "What is important is to hold the Olympics from July. It must not be the case that my presence becomes an obstacle to that," he said at a special committee meeting on Friday, where he also announced his resignation.

    It is not immediately clear who will replace Mr Mori, a former Japanese prime minister. He had initially selected well-known sports administrator Saburo Kawabuchi, 84, to replace him but this also led to protests.

    The resignation came as pressure mounted on him over the past week. Major sponsors came forward to criticise his comments, including Toyota, one of the biggest Olympic backers.

    Toyota's president Akio Toyoda said the company was "disappointed".

    On Tuesday, a group of female lawmakers wore white in a protest against his remarks, with some men doing the same in solidarity.

    And Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said she would not attend a meeting of high-level Olympic officials in protest.

    According to local media, almost 400 people have also withdrawn applications to volunteer at the Olympic games, which are scheduled for later this year.

    The committee board currently has 24 members, five of whom are women. In 2019, the committee - which is responsible for selecting Japanese Olympians - set itself a goal of increasing the number of female board directors to 40%.

    "If we increase the number of female board members, we have to make sure their speaking time is restricted somewhat, they have difficulty finishing, which is annoying," Mr Mori was quoted as saying.

    "We have about seven women at the organising committee, but everyone understands their place."

    Mr Mori is known in the country for a string of gaffes and undiplomatic statements made while in office from 2000 to 2001.

    He told Japan's Mainichi newspaper that female family members had also lambasted him after his comments.

    "Last night, my wife gave me a thorough scolding. She said: 'You've said something bad again, haven't you? I'm going to have to suffer again because you've antagonised women'," he said.

    "This morning, my daughter and granddaughter scolded me as well," the paper quoted him as saying.

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    83 về hưu là quá muộn rồi, mấy cha nội càng ngồi lâu càng vô tích sự. Được ăn được nói thì hông ai muốn xách gói đi về.

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    Già không phải là cái tội. Già là cái tật cơ.
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    Ăn ở hay mà gặp dở thì gọi là số; ăn ở dở mà gặp hay thì gọi là may.




    Powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolts Tohoku area




    The manager of a liquor store in the city of Fukushima cleans up after the earthquake on Saturday night. | KYODO

    A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck late Saturday off the coast of Tohoku, leaving at least 100 people injured across six prefectures just weeks before the 10th anniversary of the March 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

    The quake, which measured a strong 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale — the second-highest level — jolted Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in the Tohoku region. No tsunami warning was issued, but the earthquake was the strongest to hit the region since April 7, 2011, the Meteorology Agency said.

    People were reported hurt in Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Saitama and Chiba prefectures, but no serious injuries were confirmed.

    Nationwide, at least 950,000 homes temporarily lost power, but that was mostly resolved as of Sunday morning.

    The quake, which was also felt in Tokyo, where it registered a 4 on the Japanese scale, struck at around 11:07 p.m., according to the Meteorological Agency. The epicenter was off the coast of Fukushima, about 220 kilometers (135 miles) north of Tokyo. Its focus was estimated to be at a depth of about 55 kilometers.

    Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said during a meeting of Cabinet ministers Sunday morning that no deaths had been reported in the quake, but urged vigilance amid the prospect of continued aftershocks up to a strong 6 on the Japanese scale.

    “We urge the people in the affected areas to continuously pay attention to information from entities such as municipalities, be on alert and be ready to act fast and consider weather changes after tomorrow,” Suga said.

    Public broadcaster NHK said that the government would set up a special liaison office to coordinate with the affected regions.

    Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi directed the Self-Defense Forces to gather information on the scope of the damage and be prepared to respond immediately.

    Kishi told reporters Sunday morning that the SDF would be dispatched immediately if there were requests from local municipalities.

    At a news conference early Sunday morning, a Meteorological Agency official said aftershocks of up to a strong 6 on the Japanese scale could occur for at least a week. The official said Saturday’s quake was believed to be an aftershock of the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck the same region on March 11, 2011.

    “Because (the 2011 quake) was an enormous one with a magnitude of 9.0, it’s not surprising to have an aftershock of this scale 10 years later,” said Kenji Satake, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.

    The quake registered a strong 6 in the southern part of Miyagi, and in the Nakadori central and Hamadori coastal regions of Fukushima, the Meteorological Agency said.

    Power outages had been reported in parts of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, and Tochigi prefectures, according to media reports. Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings had reported blackouts across several prefectures as of early Sunday morning.


    The Kyodo News bureau in Sendai after a strong earthquake struck on Saturday | KYODO

    No abnormalities had initially been detected at the Fukushima Nos. 1 and 2 nuclear power plants, according to Tokyo Electric Power, but the Sankei newspaper later reported water at the spent fuel pools of the No. 1 plant’s reactors 5 and 6 buildings had partially spilled over. The spillage was limited to inside the buildings.

    Meanwhile, Japan Atomic Power Co.’s inactive Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in the village of Tokai in Ibaraki Prefecture and Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture both reported no abnormalities, according to their operators.

    Following the quake, JR East temporarily halted operations of its Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku shinkansen lines. Power outages occurred on some sections. A landslide had covered a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, officials said, but no vehicles were found to be trapped.


    A bookshelf is seen tipped over at a home in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, late Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck the region. | KYODO

    Horizontal shaking lasted for a few minutes inside a traditional inn in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, with plates for food scattered in its dining room.

    “The initial jolt felt more powerful than the one I experienced in the Great East Japan Earthquake,” said Tomoko Kobayashi, 68, who works at the inn. “I wondered if it would end.”

    After the 7.3 quake, many smaller earthquakes with magnitudes between 3 and 5 occurred off Fukushima.

    The quake, which comes less than a month before the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, registered a 4 on the Japanese scale as far north as Aomori Prefecture and as far west as Shizuoka Prefecture.

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    Pháp: 10 ngàn người ký tên yêu cầu VN tôn trọng nhân quyền



    ACAT: Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT-France) is an ecumenical organisation fighting against torture and the death penalty around the world and defending asylum rights. ACAT-France is made up of 10,000 activists, 400 local groups and 17 staff members

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    Bơi 6 tiếng tới bờ tự do




    N. Korean defector undetected for hours after swimming to South



    A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world's most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught only after apparently falling asleep.

    Bungling South Korean forces did not spot the man's audacious exploit despite him appearing several times on CCTV after he landed and triggering alarms, drawing heavy criticism from media and opposition MPs.

    Even after his presence was noticed, the man -- who used diving gear to make his way by sea around the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula -- was not caught for another three hours.

    The man, reportedly in his 20s, landed north of the town of Goseong on the east coast.

    "He presumably had swum for about six hours, wearing a padded jacket inside a diving suit and fins. His clothing appeared to have kept him warm and allowed him to stay afloat," an unnamed Joint Chiefs of Staff official was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency on Tuesday.

    Tidal currents worked in his favour, the official said, and he abandoned most of his equipment before making his way through a drainage channel under the barbed-wire fences that run along the coast.

    Over more than three hours surveillance cameras caught him eight times, audible alarms sounding twice, but border guards did not notice.

    Eventually a manhunt was launched, and troops found him three hours later, apparently asleep, his facemask hanging in a tree.

    Officials say the defector, presumed to have been a civilian in the North, has expressed a desire to defect.

    The military acknowledged troops had "failed to abide by due procedures" and vowed to strengthen border security.

    And in a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, Defence Minister Suh Wook acknowledged that surveillance systems in the area were "malfunctioning and outdated".

    Only a handful of Northern defectors ever directly cross the DMZ or swim past the maritime border -- although the last such publicly known incident was in November, when questions about security were also raised.

    The vast majority of defectors instead first travel to neighbouring China, sometimes staying there for years before making their way on to the South via third countries.

    More than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to the South over the decades but numbers plummeted to just 229 last year, after Pyongyang imposed a strict border closure to protect itself from the coronavirus that first emerged in neighbour and key ally China.

    The incident was evidence the South Korean military was "close to a near collapse", the conservative Chosun Ilbo newspaper said Wednesday.

    "Is this unit the only unit not doing its job properly? We think not," it added in an editorial.

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    Nam Hàn không có chính sách đón người dinh tê như Việt nam hồi xưa?

    Quân xử thần tử:

    Saudi heir complicit in Khashoggi murder
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...lman-complicit

    The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Biden’s call to the 85-year-old ruler would take place “soon” and that the declassified report on Khashoggi’s murder was being readied for release. Biden, who said he has read the report, is insisting that he speak only to the king.

    Reuters, citing four officials familiar with the matter, reported late on Wednesday that the assessment would find Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved and likely ordered the murder.

    The revelation comes as the White House is facing calls by human rights activists and Saudi dissidents to “strike a blow” against Saudi human rights violations with new sanctions that they say could help rein in Prince Mohammed’s crackdown on dissidents and turn the page on the Trump administration’s “embrace of despots”.

    Media reports have in the past said that US intelligence agencies had a medium- to high-degree of confidence that the crown prince and de facto ruler was responsible for ordering Khashoggi’s killing in the Saudi consulate.


    “The release of the report is a long-awaited step that must be accompanied by accountability to ensure that this barbaric crime doesn’t happen again,” said Khalid Aljabri, a Saudi who is living in exile in Canada and is the son of Saad Aljabri, a former senior official and aide to Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince who is now in jail.


    “Toothless sanctions by the Trump administration didn’t deter MBS [as the crown prince is often known] from going after others. The Biden administration must take more effective steps by sanctioning senior officials and political figures, institutions and entities that contributed to the murder,” he said.

    Agnès Callamard, the outgoing special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing for the United Nations, who investigated the Khashoggi murder, said that targeted sanctions against Prince Mohammed’s personal assets and bank account ought to be ordered as a “minimum” if intelligence showed the crown prince ordered or incited the crime. She added that Biden ought also to exert pressure on the Saudis to identify the location of Khashoggi’s remains, allow for Khashoggi’s children to leave Saudi if they wish, and, if evidence suggests he ordered the killing, freeze Prince Mohammed’s diplomatic engagements with the US.

    “Banishing the persons responsible for ordering the killing of Jamal Khashoggi from the international stage is an important step towards delivering justice to Jamal Khashoggi,” Callamard said.
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    Bắt chước Tô lâm:

    Father and son extradited to Japan over Carlos Ghosn escape
    https://www.theguardian.com/business...s-ghosn-nissan

    The Massachusetts men, held at a suburban Boston jail since their arrest in May, were handed over early on Monday, said one of their attorneys, Paul Kelly. Their lawyers had argued the accusations do not fit the law Japan wants to try them under and that they will be treated unfairly and subjected to “mental and physical torture”.

    They have accused Japan of pursuing the pair in an attempt to save face after the embarrassment of Ghosn’s escape.

    Michael Taylor, a US army special forces veteran in the past hired to rescue abducted children, has never denied the allegations. He gave an interview to Vanity Fair last year in which he described the mission in detail. When asked why he did it, he responded with the motto of the special forces: “De oppresso liber” or “to liberate the oppressed”.


    He refused to discuss the details of the case in an interview last month because of the possibility he would be tried in Japan. But he insisted that his son was not involved and was not even in Japan when Ghosn left.


    Ghosn, who became one of the auto industry’s most powerful executives by engineering a turnaround at the Japanese manufacturer, had been out on bail after his November 2018 arrest on charges that he underreported his future income and committed a breach of trust by diverting Nissan money for his personal gain.

    Prosecutors have described one of the most “brazen and well-orchestrated escape acts in recent history”. Authorities say the Taylors were paid at least $1.3m.

    On the day of the escape, Michael Taylor flew into Osaka on a chartered jet with another man, George-Antoine Zayek, carrying two large black boxes and pretending to be musicians with audio equipment, authorities said. Ghosn, free on bail, headed to the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo and met Peter Taylor, authorities say.

    The elder Taylor and Zayek met the two others at the Grand Hyatt and shortly after split up. Peter Taylor took a flight to China while the others got on a bullet train and went back to another hotel near the airport, where Taylor and Zayek had booked a room. They all went in; only Ghosn’s rescuers were seen walking out.

    Authorities say Ghosn was inside one of the big black boxes. At the airport, the boxes passed through a security checkpoint and were loaded on to a private jet headed for Turkey, officials said.

    The Taylors had hired lawyers connected to Donald Trump, including the ex-White House attorney Ty Cobb, in an attempt to get Trump to block the extradition before he left office.


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    South Korea envoy hopes to wrap up talks with U.S. on defence costs

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is seeking to iron out remaining differences and sign a deal with Washington on sharing costs for stationing 28,500 American troops in the country, its chief envoy said on Thursday.

    Jeong Eun-bo made the comment as he arrived in Washington for the first face-to-face talks on Friday with U.S. envoy Donna Welton since President Joe Biden’s administration took office in January. They held their first video conference last month.

    The negotiations had been gridlocked after former U.S. President Donald Trump rejected Seoul’s offer to pay 13% more, for a total of about $1 billion a year, and demanded as much as $5 billion.

    South Korean sources have raised hopes the Biden administration will agree to a deal close to their proposal. Seoul currently pays Washington about $920 million a year.

    “There are issues that we are trying to resolve as much as possible through this upcoming face-to-face meeting,” Jeong said in televised remarks to reporters in Washington.

    Jeong said he was hoping the meeting would be the “last round of negotiations,” but added further discussions might be needed.

    “We will be working to strike a deal as early as we can,” he added.

    Both sides are “very close” to agreement, the Yonhap news agency said, citing the U.S. State Department. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Seoul has also been pursuing a multi-year deal to head off “operational disturbances” that had arisen as the allies renew it every three five or years, Jeong said.

    After the last pact expired at the end of 2019 without a new one, some 4,000 South Koreans working for the U.S. military were placed on unpaid leave, prompting the two countries to scramble for a stopgap agreement to let them return to work.

    Jeong’s visit comes as the Biden administration is conducting a review of its North Korea policy and Washington and Seoul are arranging the first trip to South Korea by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

    Japan’s Kyodo News reported the two Cabinet officials would travel to Japan and South Korea from March 15 to 17, citing unnamed Tokyo officials. Seoul’s presidential office said on Friday that both sides were discussing their visit but that no details had been set.

    Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Peter Cooney

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    Singapore says "national shame" for armed forces to use weapons against own people


    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s foreign minister said on Friday it was a “national shame” for the armed forces of a country to use weapons against their own people as he called on Myanmar’s military rulers to seek a peaceful solution to the unrest in the country.

    "It is the height of national shame for the armed forces of any country to turn its arms against its own people," said Vivian Balakrishnan, repeating that Singapore was appalled by the violence against civilians in the country.

    The United Nations has said at least 54 people have been killed since the Feb. 1 coup. More than 1,700 people had been arrested, including 29 journalists.

    Balakrishnan and his counterparts in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) had held talks with a representative of the junta earlier this week.

    Singapore along with a number of other ASEAN foreign ministers have called for the release of political detainees including civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

    Balakrishnan said on Friday the foreign ministers were in daily contact with each another over Myanmar.

    However, he said that while ASEAN should play a constructive role in facilitating a return to normalcy and stability, there would be s limited impact from any external pressure on the situation in Myanmar. "If you look over the past 70 years, the military authorities in Myanmar, frankly, do not respond to economic sanctions, do not respond to moral opprobrium," the Singapore minister said.

    He said that while references to the ASEAN charter and human rights declaration were essential, they were not sufficient to change the junta's behaviour.

    "The keys ultimately lie within Myanmar. And there's a limit to how far external pressure will be brought to bear," Balakrishnan said. (Reporting by Aradhana Aravindan in Singapore Editing by Ed Davies)

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