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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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[Doyle McManus] Breaking point in Libya
Like most wars, NATO’s five-week-old campaign to overthrow Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi has turned out to be harder than it looked.The leaders of Britain, France and the United States, who launched the intervention, initially hoped Gadhafi’s regime would collapse quickly ― toppled either by popular uprisings or, more likely, by dissident generals.But that hasn’t happened, at least not yet.Instead, Gadh
April 29, 2011
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[David Ignatius] White House ‘political guy’ in hot seat
WASHINGTON ― Tom Donilon, President Obama’s national security adviser, has a reputation as a “process guy,” meaning that he runs an orderly decision-making system at the National Security Council, and as a “political guy” with a feel for Capitol Hill and the media. Now, facing the rolling crisis of the Arab Spring, Donilon has had to transform himself into the ultimate “policy guy” ― coordinating
April 29, 2011
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[Editorial] Anticorruption commission under attack
With the war on terrorism far from over, Indonesia has seen mounting attacks on corruption fighters, despite the nationwide acceptance that graft is an extraordinary crime, separate from terrorism. A plan by the House of Representatives to revise Law No. 30/2002 on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is widely seen as the latest foray intended to weaken the anticorruption drive.Sadly, the
April 29, 2011
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[Editorial] Diplomatic sport
Such is the Indian and Pakistani leadership’s obsession with high-profile “event-oriented” diplomacy that they sought to exploit the craze for cricket to revitalize people-to-people contact without taking two realities into consideration. One, that the cricketing calendar was overcrowded, the players so heavily committed, that squeezing in even a short bilateral series was virtually impossible; tw
April 29, 2011
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[Editorial] Spectacle to the rescue of old institutions
The coming royal wedding in England and the beatification of Pope John Paul II in Rome will afford the world a chance to see how two ancient institutions ― the monarchy and the papacy ― reinforce their claim to perpetuity and continuing relevance by a show of pomp and pageantry. Supposed to be historical rivals, especially considering their religious wars since the 16th century, these two institut
April 29, 2011
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Moving beyond clash over human rights
Human rights are always a sensitive issue in Sino-U.S. relations and the latest Sino-U.S. human rights dialogue that began on Wednesday is likely to demonstrate this once again. With the dialogue resuming after a period of interruption and the ups and downs that have characterized recent Sino-U.S. relations, it is important to review the contact and communication between the two powers on human ri
April 29, 2011
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Japan’s economy feels the effects of quake
The government in its monthly report released in mid-April downgraded its basic assessment of the Japanese economy for the first time in six months. It said the March 11 catastrophe is causing downward pressure on exports, production and consumption.Although there is a view that the economy will start to pick up around July, partly assisted by increased demand linked to reconstruction projects, th
April 28, 2011
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Cuba needs to adapt to economic realities
Last week, Cuban President Raul Castro endorsed sweeping economic reforms, proposed term limits for government and Communist Party officials, and conceded that the party’s failure to groom a new generation of leaders will make it harder to find a successor.The proposed reforms could usher in major changes. For the first time since the 1959 revolution, the government would allow Cubans to own and s
April 28, 2011
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[Tim Rutten] In Libya, ‘mission creep’ sets in
In the think-tank argot popular in foreign policy circles, “mission creep” is an idiom for one of the garden-variety mistakes most people were warned against at their mother’s knee. Think “don’t throw good money after bad” and you’ve pretty well got the essence of the thing.Predictably, though, mission creep is what’s occurring in Libya. Each halting step the United States and its NATO allies take
April 28, 2011
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[Yuliya Tymoshenko] Meaning of the Chernobyl meltdown
KIEV ― It began as a grey and muddy spring day, like so many others in my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning.Of course, none of us knew the precise moment when catastrophe struck at Chernobyl 25 years ago. Back then, we lived under a system that denied ordinary people any right whatsoever to know about even essential facts and events. So we were kept in the dark about the radiation leaking f
April 28, 2011
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Hoping the message and works of author are not tarnished
I’ve long been an admirer of Greg Mortenson, the author of the phenomenal best-seller “Three Cups of Tea.” The book tells how he began building girls’ schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan after making a pledge to the villagers of Korphe, who had rescued him from a failed attempt to summit the world’s second-highest peak, K-2.To see his work, I traveled with Greg in 2007 to visit schools he’d built
April 28, 2011
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[Edward Wasserman] Lawsuit exposes musty values of Internet economy
In 1991 a lawsuit filed by a freelance journalist was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the New York Times owed money to independent writers it had published for reselling their work from its archives. This was a big deal ― in theory, anyway.In fact, all it did was force publishers to get their lawyers to write bulletproof waivers for freelancers to sign. That waiver is a thing o
April 28, 2011
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[Andrew Sheng] The flawed global monetary system
In 1944, the historic meeting on the international monetary system was held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The British delegation was led by Lord Keynes, the foremost economic thinker of his day. The U.S. delegation was effectively led by Treasury adviser Harry Dexter White. Even though all the Allies attended the meeting, including China and India, it was essentially a debate between the declin
April 28, 2011
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[Editorial] Pressure for talks
Pressure is mounting on South Korea to resume dialogue with North Korea and withdraw opposition to resuming denuclearization talks in the absence of Pyongyang’s apology for its earlier unprovoked hostilities. As Winston Churchill famously said, jaw-jaw is always better than war-war. But what if the North Korean communists do not abandon the idea of war-war while in talks?North Korea has been knock
April 27, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] War between the whites 150 years ago
The fourth-grade teacher in Virginia who performed a mock slave auction in her classroom April 1 ― with the white kids pretending to buy and sell the black kids ― was duly chastised by school officials for her racial insensitivity. Given that she meant to be giving a lesson on the Civil War, she should also have been scolded for pedagogical inaccuracy.Think about it. If she really wanted to have h
April 27, 2011
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[Tony Blair and Ray Chambers] Progress in the fight against malaria
LONDON ― The tsunami in Japan, the earthquake in Haiti, and Hurricane Katrina are among the world’s most notorious recent natural disasters. Their fierce devastation claimed thousands of lives, destroyed vital infrastructure, and crippled economies. The communities affected could not be more different from one another, and yet the similarities in the responses are striking. The worldwide outpourin
April 27, 2011
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U.S. and other NATO members lost in Libya
What’s happening in Libya? When we last checked in, President Obama had said that the United States would participate in the U.N.-sponsored no-fly zone but that this was not ― repeat not ― a war to oust Moammar Gadhafi. Rather, the narrow purpose of the operation was to avert humanitarian disaster. He acknowledged that he would like to see Gadhafi go, but said that under no circumstances would gro
April 27, 2011
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[Najmedin Meshkati] Chernobyl: Lessons for nuclear power industry
The world commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophic accident in Ukraine on April 26. However, this event did not do justice to the significance and impact of this plant on the world, as I saw and felt about it in 1997.When I got the first sight of the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power station while being driven in the Exclusion Zone toward the pla
April 27, 2011
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Corruption has become a way of life
From womb to tomb, corruption has become a part of everyday life.It’s so widespread that only few Indians ― rich or poor, illiterate or highly-educated ― have not experienced it first-hand.All politicians promise to stem it but when in power, they invariably end up being stained by it.An expectant mother has to grease the palm of officials in a government hospital for admission while it is routine
April 27, 2011
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[Jasper Kim] Law school: So you want to be a lawyer?
But what is a lawyer’s life like in a “typical day” and what types of career paths (both domestic and international) exist with a law degree or as a lawyer?Before law school, I had a fuzzy idea of what the law as a profession actually meant. Law school itself, especially in the United States (and increasingly in Korea), trains people to “think like a lawyer.” As part of this, most if not all Ameri
April 27, 2011