.... Hwang Kyo-ahn, the main opposition Liberty Korea Party chairman, stands before( left) and after

KUALA LUMPUR: Cigarette maker British American Tobacco( M) Bhd said profit from operations in the second quarter expanded by 23% driven by improvement in domestic sales volume. Net profit in the three-month ended jumped 31% to RM71. 6mil, or 25.1 sen a share from RM54. 6mil, 19.1 sen per share a year ago. Revenue was up at RM595mil compared with RM546mil previously. Profit from operations was RM107mil, BAT Malaysia said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia today. The group has declared a second inter

Abe-Monjuin Temple, located in the city of Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, commenced sales of its Kikka Gin Seimei product on Oct.... The product is the temple's second endeavor to pay homage to Seimei, following its summer launch of special somen noodles.... As Seimei is thought to have been an expert in astronomy, the finishing distillations were carried out on Sept....

The illustration of" Takekawa"(" Bamboo River") I of the national treasure" The Tale of Genji Illustrated Handscrolls" is seen at the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on Nov.... Restoration of 15 volumes of" The Tale of Genji Illustrated Handscrolls" held by the private Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya began in 2012.... The 15 surviving works in the Tokugawa Art Museum collection comprise 16 sections of text and 15 pictures, while the Gotoh Museum pieces consist of four sections of te

A man has been found guilty of carrying out a campaign of cat killings in Brighton. Shopping centre security guard Steve Bouquet, 54, was accused of stabbing ninecatsto death and injuring seven more in Brighton in East Sussex.On Wednesday a jury at Chichester Crown Court found him guilty of 16 offences of criminal damage, in relation to the cats, and possession of a knife. The campaign of gruesome attacks took place between October 2018 and June 2019.... During that period, police received a sp

A former Royal Navy gunner dubbed the “ Brighton cat killer ” after he carried out a string of deadly attacks on pets has died. Security guard Steve Bouquet was jailed last year in relation to the deaths of nine cats and injuries to seven more. His carried out his deadly spree in the East Sussex city between October 2018 and May 2019 before finally being captured on CCTV set up by the owner of a dead feline.On Tuesday, the Prison Service confirmed that he had died at hospital on January 6. The c

Five family members, including his aunt and grandfather, died as a result of the bombing.... Yamaguchi, who died in 2013 at the age of 82, spoke of the scars left on his body and the cruelty of the atomic bombs. The special session was the first time for hibakusha to address the United Nations.... Also speaking was Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was 16 years old when he suffered injuries from the atomic bomb in Nagasaki at a location 1.8 kilometers from the hypocenter. —The Japan News/ Published in D

I had him for eight years before he was killed.... I never thought he would end up being murdered by a person.... Not only did Steve Bouquet inflict horrendous suffering to each of the animals he attacked, but he also caused real trauma to their owners, many of whom found their beloved pets injured and bleeding.“ None of us can comprehend what drove Bouquet to do this to family pets....

Japanese folklore creature Amabie, said to ward off plagues, has caused a sensation during the coronavirus pandemic.... But in the shadow of the popular" yokai" creature's resurgence, research continues into historical records of" Katai no doji," another plague-fighting folklore creature characterized by sharp fangs and glowering eyes.... The year was one of political instability for Japan and marked the beginning of the Ansei Purge, in which a major crackdown on dissenters by the Tokugawa sho

A SECURITY guard found guilty of stabbing nine cats to death and injuring seven more has been caught on tape knifing an innocent animal.... Chilling footage showed Steve Bouquet, 54, attacking the cat as part of his sick campaign which saw 16 pets in Brighton, East Sussex, killed or injured.... And chilling footage shows the moment Bouquet struck one of his victims after bending down to stroke the cat in a passageway linking Church Street and North Road in Brighton.He can then be seen pulling