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SEOUL - A top Hyundai Group executive, enmeshed in a payments scandal over a landmark summit between North and South Korea, leapt to his death from his high-rise office building on Monday, police said.
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- WEEK IN BRIEF
SHANGHAI
- HIV couple tie the knot
A HIV-positive couple has wed publicly for the first time in China in a ceremony widely reported in State newspapers, a sign more sufferers may be ready to tackle rampant discrimination.
- Betting on generous official tolerance
TAIHU County in Anhui Province is a poverty-stricken place, but gambling has recently become an important business, with an annual turnover exceeding 10 million yuan (US$1.2 million).
- Quadruplets' parents appeal for help
THE parents of the quadruplets born last week in Shanghai and who still need special treatment in hospital have spent all their savings and don't know where the money to pay their medical bills will come from.
- Alarming suicidal tendencies
SOME 287,000 people commit suicide every year in China and about 2 million try but fail, according to the Beijing Psychological Crisis Research Centre.
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