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Sweden thieves steal left shoes to pair them up in Denmark
Sweden thieves steal left shoes to pair them up in Denmark
Police in Sweden believe they have uncovered an elaborate cross-border criminal masterplan to steal left shoes in Stockholm and match them up with right shoes pilfered from designer boutiques in Copenhagen. For months, officers were baffled when designer shoe shops in Malmo reported that only left shoes were disappearing from their shelves. But the mystery was solved when it emerged that in neighbouring Denmark only right shoes were put on display, the Times reports. Staff at a one shop in Malmo, Sweden’s third- largest city, saw two men in their fifties stealing left shoes at the weekend. The duo escaped with seven left shoes which, if paired, were worth ₤900 pound
Japan refunds $1.50 to forced labourers
after 65 years
Tokyo: Seven South Koreans who were pressed into forced labour during Japan’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula have been refund
ed their pension contribution of 99 yen (S$1.50) each-more than 60 years later.
Tokyo recently sent the money to the seven women, who sued the Japanese government in 1998 to claim the value of a welfare pension fund that they paid into while working at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries between October 1944 and August 1945, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said.
The plaintiffs were far from appeased, reports said. "It is just mortifying beyond words that 99 yen is the result of my 65 years of waiting," 78-year-old plantiff Yang Geum Deok said at a press conference in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul , according to the Korea Herald newspaper.
after 65 years
Tokyo: Seven South Koreans who were pressed into forced labour during Japan’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula have been refund
ed their pension contribution of 99 yen (S$1.50) each-more than 60 years later.Tokyo recently sent the money to the seven women, who sued the Japanese government in 1998 to claim the value of a welfare pension fund that they paid into while working at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries between October 1944 and August 1945, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said.
The plaintiffs were far from appeased, reports said. "It is just mortifying beyond words that 99 yen is the result of my 65 years of waiting," 78-year-old plantiff Yang Geum Deok said at a press conference in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul , according to the Korea Herald newspaper.
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