ARTICLES BY LOUISE WATT

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iFraud: Apple stores faked in China

BEIJING - It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company's logo chat with customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang on the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words "Apple Store" - one of the few clues …

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

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North Korea freed American without aid promise

BEIJING - North Korea freed an American it held for a half year for reportedly proselytizing, handing him Saturday to a U.S. envoy who said Washington had not promised to provide aid in exchange for the man's release.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO