Late Night Ignoring Asia

Racist to remain head of racist party

The second largest opposition party, the Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), decided on Saturday to keep its current leadership, despite the party’s poor showing in last Sunday’s upper house election.
The party fielded 44 candidates but won only eight seats.
The party held an executive meeting in Tokyo on Saturday afternoon. Afterwards, it said co-leaders Toru Hashimoto and Shintaro Ishihara would stay on, along with Secretary General Ichiro Matsui, Fuji TV reported.

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Freedom of the press and North Korea

Members of the North Korean delegation abruptly jumped into the press center where South Korean reporters were staying at the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Park on Friday, the first incident of its kind ever. As South Korean officials were trying to block, the North Koreans said, “We are free to do it,” and pushed ahead with a press conference. North Korean officials commented the word “freedom” out of blue on their own, which sounded somewhat awkward. This remark reminded South Koreans of double standards toward freedom the North has displayed thus far. The North raised issue with the South’s media as one of the reasons it chose to shut down the industrial complex. Pyongyang has been blasting the South Korean media, saying that the latter insulted “the North’s supreme dignity” by labeling the complex “dollar box,” “cash cow,” and “food source.” Afterwards, the North continued to make condemnations of the South, mentioning the South Korean president and minister’s names. As the negotiations over the resumption of the Kaesong complex are on the verge of collapse, the North has sought to take advantage of the South Korean media that had been blasting Pyongyang, in a bid to convey its message. This illustrates that the North is interpreting “freedom of press” in its favor as it pleases.

 

Now there's an oxymoron

Fighting against the man

Police in Dapu Borough (大埔), Miaoli County, on Saturday night fined the organizers of a street premiere of director Chan Ching-lin’s (詹慶臨) film, A Breath from the Bottom (狀況排除), for “disturbing public order” by holding the screening at the site of the controversial demolition of residences in the borough earlier this month.
As many as 300 activists and members of the public joined Chan and other artistic figures at 7pm on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the four families whose homes and businesses were bulldozed on the orders of Miaoli County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻) on July 18, ending a three-year battle to halt the destructions.

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