The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, a celebrated U.S.-bred entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.
In October 2004 Ji and a purchasing director flew to Shanghai to line up orders for Wal-Mart in time for Thanksgiving weekend.
Ji has a supporter in Congressman Gary Miller of California.
But Ji had a close working relationship with Ni, and they trusted each other, so they compromised: Changhong could book the bill as a massive receivable, and they would work it out later, says Hsu.
Kodai-ji is a historic Zen temple located in the scenic Higashiyama area and was one of the first temples to kick off after-dark illuminations (when the gardens are lit by multicoloured spotlights), allowing cherry blossom viewing to continue well into the night.
In another terrorism trial in the Philippines, a MILF member testified that he had helped JI to bomb a railway station in Manila, the capital.
Earlier on Wednesday, they were denied a victory in Seoul as Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung scored a late equalizer to give South Korea a 1-1 draw.
Last October, the United States designated the Jemaah Islamiyah Islamic (JI) group a terrorist organization.
In August Ji was granted a qubao houshen, a type of noncustodial detention akin to getting out on bail.
As the camera rolled last December, Ji--a U.S. citizen held against his will in Shanghai by the authorities--glumly says he has signed over control of his company, Apex Digital, to a government-owned supplier that has accused him of a massive fraud.
The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, an entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.
Brazil still had a scare when Ji Yun-nam's brilliant first touch controlled a high ball and took him into space in the Brazil box and he made no mistake with an unerring finish past Julio Cesar.
On the morning of Oct. 23, as Ji was staying at a hotel in Shenzhen, Changhong officials, escorted by police from their home city of Minyang, accosted Ji in his room and took him away, an employee traveling with him later said.
David Ji has spent nearly a year in custody in China without being charged with a crime.
David Ji is one of a dozen or so U.S. businessmen detained without due process in the past decade in China (see box, p. 148).
David Ji is one of a dozen or so U.S. businessmen detained without due process in the past decade in China (see box, p. 34).
The sponsor of the defending StarCraft champion, Seo Ji Hoon, held a lottery to select 20 of his fans to be flown to Singapore to watch the competition.
As a result, JI lost any shred of popular support it had once enjoyed.
"I would like Park Ji-Sung to become a symbol of challenge for all Koreans, " 30-year-old Kim Young Woo, who is a great fan of Park, said.
United - playing their first 3pm kick-off at Old Trafford since New Year's Day - began to find some rhythm and Ji-Sung Park scooped a close-range shot over the top.
Ji's attorneys said Changhong was wildly overstating the debt and insisted that Ji issued the checks after a Changhong executive said he merely wanted to hold them for security and wouldn't cash them.
At the same time the Indonesian government, which at one point had denied that JI even existed, mounted a sophisticated campaign to dismantle the group, capturing many of its leaders and putting them on trial.
The 21-year-old midfielder scored his third goal of the tournament following his double in Korea's opening 2-1 win over Bahrain, as Ji Dong-won collected a long ball and put the ball into the path of his teammate.
"This is a really politically sensitive question, " says Ji Baocheng, president of Renmin University and an NPC member, who filed a petition this year, for the fourth time, calling for a review of the policy.
Changhong began questioning him, and on Oct. 29, 2004 they made a first videotape of Ji, in the company of lawyers he didn't hire purporting to represent him, obligingly signing over ownership of Apex and his California house to Changhong if he failed to pay up.
Arsenal continued to press forward looking for a way back into the match, but once again they were caught on the break as this time Korean Ji-Sung Park burst through a huge gap in the home defence to slide home the decisive third goal early in the second half.
Ji was out on qubao houshen, a type of noncustodial detention akin to being out on bail.
Car owners may pay more to leave their vehicles and take a cab home than if they used a stand-in driver, Ji says.
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