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Apple has lost the first round in a trademark dispute brought by Shenzhen-based computer monitor manufacturer Proview. Although Apple has appealed the ruling, iPad devices have been required to be removed from shelves in some Chinese cities.
South Korean net users have created an online petition [ko] requesting the Korean President to grant a presidential pardon to his vocal critic, Chung Bong-ju, who was jailed for raising stock price manipulation allegations against the president. Within less than a day, this petition has already gathered more than 8 thousand signatures.
On a Baidu forum, one user has posted photos of what is apparently now a common sight surrounding certain buses in downtown Beijing's Guomao area: so many people gathered in the cold that passengers have begun climbing through windows just to get some space on the bus.
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Unfortunately, I don’t speak Japanese very well. Does the web page tell us why the suicide rate is so high?
Do they have such hard training? Or are they involved in any wars and suffer from post-war traumata? German soldiers who have been in Afghanistan often suffer from these traumata :-(
Stefan, the post I quoted is just the first of three on the subject that the blogger plans to write in the next weeks. In it he doesn`t give any further explanation about the causes. He just mentions bullyism, hard training and post-war trauma as plausible causes for the high rate of suicides.