The two brought in Shen, an investment banker in New York and Hong Kong, and then lured Min Fan, an executive from a state-owned travel company.

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"I think it's hard to say that the economy is turning around as export growth completely halted, " said Jun Min-Kyoo, an economist at Korea Investment and Securities.

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Re-TROS bass player Liu Min says that one benefit to releasing an album in the United States is to show Americans a side of China they might not have heard before.

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Its inaugural issue, in April, 1998, featured an explosive cover story detailing the case of Qiong Min Yuan, a real-estate company whose share price had quadrupled before it was charged with overstating profits.

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The second controversial match took place about an hour later, pitting South Korea's Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung against the Indonesians Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.

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The second match in question took place about an hour later, pitting South Korea's Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung against the Indonesians Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.

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The comments came after Afghan officials found the body of Shim Sung-min, 29, a former information technology worker who was volunteering with the South Korean church group on an aid mission to Afghanistan.

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