Japan: Suit filed against Yomiuri over misreport on Dokdo/Five million iPhones to return home...

Media News - Friday, August 14, 2009
Five million iPhones to return home
Finally, it seems the Chinese people are about to be able to legally get their hands on the phone they have been building: the iPhone. According to International Business Times, Unicom, China's second largest cell carrier, has paid 10 billion yuan (about $1.46 billion) to buy 5 million iPhones from Apple. The first batch of the phones will be made available to Chinese customers as early as next month. Since March, the company has been posting the phone's images and specs at its stores. This will be the first time the phone is legally available in the country with the largest amount of cell phone users in the world. Like most electronic devices, the iPhone is assembled in China. The Chinese people are already acquainted with the iPhone. Prior to this, the phone has been available in China, as well as Vietnam and many other countries where Apple has no business partners, via smuggling. What will be new to the Chinese people for sure, however, is the fact that the phone will be locked to Unicom. Yu Zaonan, general manager of the customer development department of China Unicom in Guangzhou, told International Business Times that China Unicom is hoping 5 million iPhones will translate into 5 million new customers for the company. Unicom currently is still far behind China Mobile, the largest cell carrier in the country, both in terms of subscribers and profit. Unicom hopes the iPhone will help it narrow this gap. (CNet News)


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Japan: Suit filed against Yomiuri over misreport on Dokdo
A group of Korean citizens has filed a suit against a major Japanese newspaper for what they claimed to be a misreport on South Korea's sovereignty over Dokdo Island in the East Sea. A total of 1,886 people Thursday filed a suit against the Yomiuri Shimbun, a mass-circulated Japanese daily, for a report in July last year stating that President Lee Myung-bak did not strongly oppose Dokdo being called Takeshima during a summit with his Japanese counterpart. In the suit, they asked the daily to pay 4.11 million won in compensation and print a correction. On 15 July last year, Yomiuri reported that then-Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda informed Lee of Tokyo's decision to refer to Dokdo as Japanese territory in new manuals for middle school teachers in Japan. In response, the report alleged, Lee did not protest the decision itself but instead told Fukuda that "the timing was not right" and asked him to "wait" before announcing the change. Immediately following the report in July, Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Lee Dong-kwan denounced it, calling the story completely inaccurate. Lee charged that the report might have been part of a manipulative effort by the Japanese media to cause a rift among Korean political leaders. (Asia Media)

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