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Hookers Busted in U.S. Visa Scam

Police have busted 42 prostitutes for using forged documents to get a U.S. visa. Police in Seoul also detained a broker identified as Kim (47) on charges of faking a variety of documents to help them get the visas.

According to police, Kim and his Korean-American accomplice had been mocking up bank account records, job certificates and Family Register documents for their clients and training them for the visa interviews since September 2004, charging W4 million (US$1=W928) per person Chosun Ilbo

Rescued mutt laps up attention
TOKUSHIMA--Ever wondered what happened to the dog that leapt into the headlines last month with a dramatic, cliff-hanger rescue here?

Well, the mutt is doing just fine--although its rescuers have been dogged with offers to give it a new home.

That, sadly, is often not the case for the innumerable strays that roam the streets and alleys of the nation's cities. Asahi Evening News

Taking aim at Japan's washroom wonders
Japan's high tech toilets with their automatically opening lids and washers are highly regarded across much of the globe, but the Land of the Rising Sun has also come up with a whole range of lesser known washroom wonders, Spa! (12/26) notes.

Take the Target Seal, a 3-centimeter-high sticker placed inside a urinal to mentally trick men into taking aim when they tinkle instead of merely spraying indiscriminately.Originally placed in the toilets at Kansai International Airport by a cleaner who'd spotted a similar ploy while on a trip to South Korea, Target Seals are now proving a massive hit for their maker, Taka Art, an Osaka-based printing and advertising company. Target Seals worked so well at KIX, a London market research company declared it had "the cleanest toilets of any airport in the world." Daily Mainichi