“I was very confused, but I guessed he had been attacked – maybe with a bottle or something.” It wasn’t until almost three hours later that Kim found out her husband had been stabbed and rushed to hospital.
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Liquor.com manager Ray Shin was injured when he confronted two people he believed had stolen from the Queen St store. Shin is now recovering at Auckland Hospital and will likely need surgery for his wounds. “It’s so dangerous these days. I want Ray to be working with other staff in the night, so he is not alone. But it’s difficult with salaries, it’s expensive,” Kim said.
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By Andrew Sheng and Xiao GengHONG KONG In 1944, Friedrich A. Hayek suggested that the spontaneous order of markets was inherently superior to the supposedly dynamism-draining totalitarian order of communist or fascist regimes. The ensuing decades when free-market economies thrived, and the Soviet Union’s centrally planned economy imploded seemed to vindicate him. Then
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A freight train loaded with Chinese corn has arrived in North Korea, the first international cargo train to cross the Sino-Korean border in more than a year amid warnings of dire shortages in the impoverished North, sources in China told RFA.
Freight has not flowed freely from China since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in January 2020. Fearing that the virus could spread into North Korea, Beijing and Pyongyang agreed to close down the 880-mile Sino-Korean border in a move that proved disastrous to an economy already pinched by sanctions imposed by the UN and U.S. over North Korea’s nuclear program.