Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingMany Americans are still disappointed over the debate that should have been between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Indeed, feathers flew over the weekend as some called the presumptive Republican presidential candidate a “chicken” and “coward” for making excuses to back out ... Sanders, for his part, immediately responded with “Game On.” ... Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) ... more democratic ... ....
Backlash over the killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo has fanned social media anger against the mother of the tot who slipped into a restricted area where he was in danger of being mauled. At the same time, witnesses of the incident are trying to put things in perspective and calm passions against the mother’s “negligence” or the zoo’s decision that led to the shooting of a rare gorilla....
Details are emerging of the horrifying conditions faced by civilians trapped inside the Iraqi city of Falluja and the extreme risks they are taking to escape. One man said a bag of flour in the city - which was taken over by so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in January 2014 - now cost $850. One family reportedly lived off grass during a four-day escape bid ... "Food and medicines are in extremely short supply in the city ... ....
Istanbul. A Turkish court on Tuesday found a former Miss Turkey beauty queen guilty of insulting PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, handing her a suspended sentence of over one year in jail. The Istanbul court sentenced model Merve Buyuksarac, 27, to one year and two months in prison for "publicly insulting" Erdogan in a satirical poem she posted on her Instagram account, the Dogan news agency reported ... ....
DUBAI, May 31 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen and a Saudi-led military coalition said in a statement late on Monday it may be forced to reconsider a truce that has been place since April. ....
MTV's Franchesca Ramsey came out with an amusing, but facile video, "The WeirdHistory of Asian Sex Stereotypes" which is mostly correct, but shows very American prejudices ... As socio-political attitudes changed, so did the stereotype ... DeMille "The Cheat" where Sessue Hayakawa plays "the sadistic Burmese ivory king Arakau (originally a Japanese money lender named Tori)" according to Jun Xing's "Asian America Through the Lens ... D.W ... ....
-->. Although the IOC has said it has no reason to doubt Tokyo over bid payments, probes are on in France and Japan. The InternationalOlympic Committee said on Thursday it saw no reason to doubt assurances from Tokyo about the legitimacy of payments made during its successful bid to host the 2020 Games... ALSO READ. Rio 2016 ... "The JOC has told us to get results as soon as possible," panel head Yoshihisa Hayakawa told reporters ... ....
(Source. Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings Inc) 平成14年6月18日 Press Release. 6-2, NIHONBASHI 3-CHOME, CHUO-KU, TOKYO 103-0027 JAPAN. May 23, 2016 Proposed Change of Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members. Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, Inc ... Change of Directors (effective June 29, 2016). Non-Audit and Supervisory Committee Directors. Tateaki Ishida. (currently Representative Director and President & CEO ) ... Toshiyuki Hayakawa ... )....
(Source. Sanden Holdings Corp) 役員就任ご挨拶. PRESS RELEASE May 20, 2016. Media Inquiries..CorporateCommunication and CSR Dept. +81-(0)3-5209-3296. SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION. Announcement of Candidates of Members of the Board of Directors and Auditors ... Candidates of members of the Board of Directors and Auditors ... Auditors ... YoshimasaHayakawaSenior Adviser Mitsugi Takahashi Auditor ... ###....
Japan loves its baseball, and one thing that nation’s sports fans are fixated on right now is Yu Darvish’s road back to the major leagues. Darvish, the Texas Rangers’ three-time All-Star, pitched four innings Thursday night for the Round Rock Express, allowing one hit and one earned run in Oklahoma City’s 5-4 win ... (Jamie Harms/For American-Statesman). “Yu is a rock star in Japan ... Very important.” ... Yuzo Hayakawa;Kyodo News;news agency ... ....
NAGPUR. Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu got off to a flying start in the Badminton Asia Championships at Wuhan in China on Wednesday ...Early loss of Kidambi Srikanth was the most hurting one ... Saina was in total control as she eke out a 21-16, 21-17 win ... Manu Attri-B Sumeeth Reddy lost to 5-Hiroyuki Endo-Kenichi Hayakawa (Japan) 15-21, 13-21; Pranaav Jerry Chopra-Akshay Dewalkar lost to Or Chin Chung-Tang Chun Man (Hong Kong) 19-21, 17-21 ... ....
... So Hee defeated India's Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa 21-15 21-11 in women's doubles, men's doubles combo of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy suffered a 15-21 13-21 loss to fifth seeded Japanese pair of HiroyukiEndo and Kenichi Hayakawa....
... Lee So Hee defeated India's Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa 21-15, 21-11 in women's doubles, men's doubles combo of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy suffered a 15-21, 13-21 loss to fifth seeded Japanese pair of HiroyukiEndo and Kenichi Hayakawa....
... Ye Na and Lee So Hee defeated India's Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa 21-15 21-11 in women's doubles, men's doubles combo of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy suffered a 15-21 13-21 loss to fifth seeded Japanese pair of HiroyukiEndo and Kenichi Hayakawa....
...Chang Ye Na and Lee So Hee defeated India’s Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa 21-15 21-11 in women’s doubles, men’s doubles combo of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy suffered a 15-21 13-21 loss to fifth seeded Japanese pair of HiroyukiEndo and Kenichi Hayakawa....