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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
ABC apologizes for child’s joke on Kimmel’s show Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — ABC is apologizing for a segment of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in which a child joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt. The boy’s unscripted comment came during a comedy bit in which youngsters commented on news events. The skit, aimed at poking fun at childish politicians, aired last week on
Kimmel’s late-night talk show. ABC’s apology came in response to a complaint from a group called 80-20, which identifies itself as a pan-AsianAmerican political organization. In an Oct. 25 letter to the group, ABC said it would never purposefully do anything to upset the Chinese, Asian or other communities. The network says the skit will be edited out of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” episode for
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Chris Brown’s misdemeanor assault charge in Washington, D.C., could further complicate the R&B singer’s unsettled legal situation. Additional time behind bars remains a possibility for the singer — both in the District of Columbia and California — where Brown remains on probation for his 2009 beating of his on-again, offagain girlfriend Rihanna. Brown emerged from a Washington court on Monday flashing a peace sign after spending more than a day in custody on a charge filed after a man accused the Grammy winner and his bodyguard of punching him and breaking his nose outside a local hotel. Brown’s arrest early Sunday comes at a crucial time for the singer, who is releasing an album this winter and is under a deadline to complete hundreds of hours of community service to satisfy his sentence for the Rihanna attack. His day and a half in custody are the longest time the scandal-plagued singer has spent behind bars and the case represents the most serious accusations he’s
faced since his attack on Rihanna. Brown left the courthouse to cheers from supporters, some of whom clapped when a judge announced he would be released. His time in custody was much longer than the few hours he spent at a Los Angeles jail after the Rihanna attack. In contrast to Brown’s LA court appearances, which routinely happen in the afternoon when his case is the only one on calendar, Brown appeared in a crowded D.C. courtroom and had to wait until the end of the day for his case to be called and his release granted. Brown is accused of punching a man who tried to get a picture with the singer and two other people near Washington’s
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This July 3, 2013 photo released by ABC shows Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” ABC is apologizing for a segment of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in which a child joked about killing Chinese to help erase the U.S. debt.
W Hotel early Sunday, according to the man’s account in a police report. The report states Parker Isaac Adams, 20, said Brown told him, “I’m not down with that gay s---” and “I feel like boxing.” The exact context of Brown’s remarks was not immediately clear. The man told police Brown punched him in the face, and a court filing states the man’s nose was fractured. Brown’s bodyguard, Chris Hollosy, stepped between them and also punched the man before grabbing Brown by the arm and leading him toward his tour bus, according to the report. In an interview with police, Brown denied hitting the man and said he was on his tour bus when Hollosy got into a fight with Adams. “We understand that his security acted to protect Mr. Brown and Mr. Brown’s property as he was authorized to do under District of Columbia law. We are confident that Mr. Brown will be exonerated of any wrongdoing,” Brown’s lawyer, Danny Onorato, said after Monday’s
Singer Chris Brown is surrounded by bodyguards as he departs the H. Carl Moultriel courthouse Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, in Washington.
AP Photo/Cliff Owen
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Pedestrians wait with umbrellas at a street crossing, Thursday Oct. 10, 2013, in Singapore during a heavy thunderstorm. Singapore and Hong Kong rank the world’s best places to run a business, while mainland China remains far down the list, according to the World Bank’s annual competitiveness survey Tuesday.
AP Photo/ABC, Randy Holmes, File
The 10 best 1. Singapore 2. Hong Kong 3. New Zealand 4. United States 5. Denmark 6. Malaysia 7. South Korea 8. Georgia 9. Norway 10. United Kingdom
The 5 worst: 185. Republic of the Congo 186. South Sudan 187. Libya 188. Central African Republic 189. Chad
WB: Singapore, Hong Kong best for business AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Singapore and Hong Kong rank the world’s best places to run a business, while mainland China remains far down the list, according to the World Bank’s annual competitiveness survey Tuesday. The Southeast Asian entrepots and finance centers topped the survey for the eighth straight year, with New Zealand, the United States and Denmark rounding out the top five, as a year ago. The lower ranks of the 189country list was populated with African countries like Chad, the Central African Republic and Libya holding.
But a rising African country, Rwanda, took honors as the most improved since 2005, praised for its efforts to boost property registration and for simplifying trading and tax procedures. China, which was furious to receive a ranking of 91 last year and has pressured the World Bank to drop the 11-year-old study, fell five notches this year to 96th place and
was leapfrogged by Russia. The “Doing Business 2014” report said many countries are making it easier for people to start and run a local business, with low-income economies moving more quickly than larger ones to improve. “Regulation is a reality from the beginning of a firm’s life to the end,” the report says. “Navigating it can be complex and costly.” But in many areas, it added, “there has been remarkable progress in removing some of the biggest bureaucratic obstacles to private sector activity.” The rankings focus on what a small or medium-sized business
faces in its home country, as opposed to how a multinational giant would fare in the same environment. The data was based on surveys of more than 10,000 professionals, mostly people who routinely help administer or give advice on legal and regulatory issues in a country. The countries are scored on a range of issues, from how many days and procedures does it take to start a business, to the length of time to get a power hookup, to the ease of credit and the cost of exporting or importing a container. Countries credited with progressing the most in the past five
years include Rwanda (ranked 32), Russia (92), Ukraine (112) and the Philippines (108). Russia and Rwanda both jumped 20 places from last year, Ukraine gained 25 and the Philippines 30 places. China is likely to remain unhappy with its rating. It scored particularly poorly on the challenges of starting a business, dealing with construction permits, making tax payments and protecting investors. Even in trade, the mainstay of the world’s second largest economy, it ranked only 74 on the list. Continued on page 6