And somewhere in Tainan County, Jackson Broder cries a private, solemn tear.
From Yahoo:
Authorities in central Taiwan have turned off the red light at the county’s last legal brothel after the death of its pimp aged 87, newspapers said on Friday.

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According to an AP article, former Yankee Irabu Hideki was arrested for a drunken meltdown in a bar in Osaka.   The portly hurler–20 beers into the evening, according to sources– assaulted a bartender and smashed nine bottles of alcohol after the bar rejected his credit card.     He apparently paid with a different [...]

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Odd story here. Let’s start with the death of a Chinese woman in Guangzhou, China early this month. Local police believes she was a sex worker, but now it seems she may not have been.
Also in the room; three South Korean men working for an unnamed South Korean airline.  The woman, Tan Jing, 24,  was [...]

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Here’s a case that could be interesting to follow:
A South Korean university said on Wednesday it is suing the prestigious US university Yale for 50 million dollars (S$69 million) over a fake degree scandal which it said caused ‘irreparable damage’ to its reputation.
Dongguk University said in a statement it will take the US university to [...]

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For those not familiar Baek Ji-young (Revised Romanization: Ji-yeong)  is a popular singer in Korea. In 2001  her manager posted a video himself having sex with Baek  on a pay-per-view site. The video was then widely  circulated on the Internet  and erupted into  a massive scandal in Korea. It’s fair to say it to date, [...]

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