European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 stars and stripes saturday March 31 2007 suspect sought in teachers death the associated press Tokyo a British language teacher whose naked body was found in a san filled Bathtub at an apartment outside Tokyo was beaten and then suffocated police said thurs Day As authorities handed the woman body to her father police Are still Hunting for the prime suspect the 28yearold japanese male resident of the apartment in Ichikawa City East of the capital where Lindsay Ann hawkers body was found monday an autopsy conducted wednesday deter mined that Hawker 22 was beaten and suffocated police official Takeo Terajima said Terajima said he had no information on whether Hawker had been sexually assaulted the suspect first approached Hawker near a train station March 21 saying he wanted to learn English and followed her to her apart ment police officer Akira Ebihara said Hawker let him in because she had a room mate and he seemed eager to learn Ebihara said David British National Bill Hawker weeps As he holds a photo of his daughter Lindsay Ann at a press conference in Chiba City Japan on wednesday the suspect Drew a picture of Hawker and wrote Down his name and phone number be fore leaving her apartment Ebihara said add ing that Hawker agreed to give him an English lesson sunday the suspect who is still at Large fled past police officers monday As they were question ing his neighbors William Hawker who is in Japan to receive his daughters body tearfully told reporters wednesday that he would not rest until the suspect is caught my daughter didst come Here to be Mur dered she came Here to help people she came Here to teach he said i will not rest till the Man who killed my daughter is caught the Case comes amid the trial of a japanese businessman accused of raping and fatally drugging British bar hostess Lucie Blackman in 2000 Joji Obara 54 has been charged with rape leading to the death of Blackman prosecutors allege Obara gave her a fatal drug overdose and raped her before dismembering her body Blackman was working at a Tokyo night club when she disappeared her remains were found near Boaras Beac Side condominium near the capital in 2001 War orphans lose ruling on compensation the associated press Tokyo a japanese court threw out a multimillion Dollar demand for compensation by a group of japanese who were abandoned in China As children after Tokyo defeat in world War ii officials said thursday the Nagoya District court rejected the demands of 168 so called War orphans for million in compensation court spokesman Hisatoshi Suzuki said thursdays Case was the fifth ruling by japanese courts involving War orphans plaintiffs in three of four previous similar cases also lost their court Battle in thursdays suit the Plain tiffs had sought claim ing the government was responsible for the decades Long delay in their return to Japan and for fail ing to provide sufficient support when they came Home Kyodo news Agency said presiding judge Nobuaki Watanabe said that while measures by the government to repatriate japanese children at the close of the War were insufficient it had made efforts to help them Kyodo said although there were i Suffi Cien cies in the governments policy to realize the Early return of the plaintiffs and Independent life it cannot be said the policy was extremely irrational Kyodo quoted Watanabe As Tell ing the court thousands of japanese Chil Dren were abandoned in China by their fleeing parents As former soviet troops closed in at the end of the War in 1945 Many were adopted by Chi Nese and were too Young to re member their japanese names or their natural parents about 6300 people returned to Japan after Tokyo normalized ties with the Beijing in 1972 including 2500 War orphans the 168 plaintiffs were among 2200 War orphans who have filed suits at 15 courts in Japan graphic antismoking ads in Singapore too scary for kids the associated press Singapore Singapore graphic antismoking to ads Are working but now will be aired Only at night following complaints that there too disturbing for Chil Dren officials said thursday in one of the government health promotion boards ads a sunken eyed woman with cracked lips and Brownish de formed Teeth appears under the headline quitting is hard not quitting is harder the Board said the three month Campaign that began March 20 will continue but the ads now will Only be shown after 8 pm local time and will be preceded by a message warning viewers of the graphic Content the health promotion Board has received feedback that our advertisement May be too disturb ing to some children the boards chief executive Lam pin Woon wrote in an open letter published thursday in the Straits times newspaper since the launch of our Campaign we have seen a fivefold in crease in the number of Calls to the governments quit line from smokers desiring to quit smoking Lam wrote we encourage parents to take this Opportunity to educate their children on the fatal consequences of smoking As part of the Campaign the Wong in Singapore business District two actors portray a smoker diag nosed with cancer being treated by her doctor wednesday As part of a Singapore health promotion Board advertising Campaign Board also has posted two actors posing As a doctor and a woman hacking and coughing on her death bed in its bustling downtown business District at lunchtime like Hong Kong tightly con trolled Singapore has banned smoking in most Public places the Cit state is Well known for government led Public behaviour modification campaigns that have included pushes for courteous driving showing up on time for weddings keeping Public toilets clean and speaking proper English Survey cites quake risk to Japan schools 30 percent of Public elementary and Junior High school buildings in Japan dont meet earthquake safety standards a government Survey said thursday As the country grappled with the aftermath of a powerful earthquake earlier this week the Survey found that of the 130867 buildings across Japan 39531 or 302 percent were unsafe the education ministry said in a statement it found Only 568 percent of the buildings met the standards and 13 percent of the buildings have not been inspected Kyodo news Agency said the ministry requested local govern ments to conduct checks of All school buildings by the end of the last year Hopes fade for workers trapped underground Beijing rescuers Are try ing to reach six workers trapped underground after a subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing olympics collapsed but Hopes for their survival Are slim the offi Cial Xinhua news Agency said thursday the Accident occurred wednes Day morning on the no 10 line which runs through the main olympics compound in North West Beijing Xinhua said debris had been cleared away and rescuers were trying to reach the missing workers but experts feared there was Little Chance they survived the report said without giving further details the cause of the collapse is under investigation Xinhua said japanese supermarket resumes us beef sales Tokyo us ambassador Thomas Schieffer ate free Sam Ples of american beef thursday at the first major japanese super Market to sell the meat after the lifting of a three year ban Over worries about possible health Haz Ards Good he said after popping a slice of grilled Steak into his Mouth at a Seiyu a supermarket Chain owned by Walmart stores inc of the United states Ive been waiting All week to come out Here he said Japan banned american beef imports in december 2003 after the first Case of mad cow disease in the us the ban was eased in december 2005 but tightened again the following month after prohibited spinal Bones were found in a veal shipment Japan eased the restrictions again in last july year but allows Only meat from cows aged 20 months or younger from the associated press in says Philippines May miss goal to Cut maternity deaths the associated press Manila Philippines the Philippines needs to take urgent action or it might not reach a Universal goal to reduce its maternity death rate by 75 percent by 2015 a in offi Cial warned wednesday Suneeta Mukherjee the United nations population fund representative in the Philip Pines also said More than 400000 abortions were recorded in the predominantly roman Catholic country each year she said Many of those unwanted pregnancies could have been avoided if women had better Access to reproductive health services and information slashing the maternity death rate is among eight key in millennium development goals the in estimates that the Philippines had a rate of 162 deaths for every 100000 births in 2006 Mukherjee told reporters it will be impossible for the Philippines to Cut the rate Down to a targeted 52 deaths by 2015 unless there is More High level political will she said in this Day and age no woman should die while giving birth she said adding that the deaths were partly due to the Lack of choices to control female Fertility