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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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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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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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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Wider dialogue in Burma
The military in Burma may or may not be ready for meaningful and inclusive dialogue with the opposition as it handed over power on March 30 to the government elected last November. If it were so inclined, it could simply respond to the offer that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi made last weekend for talks to clear up “misunderstandings.” Even after the new, nominally civilian government take
April 1, 2011
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Expanding benefits for marriage and parenting
Taiwanese women are known for delaying marriage or seemingly choosing to stay single, depending on how you look at it. The average age of marriage for women in 2009 was 30 to 31. In 2010, 31 percent of women above the age of 15 were single, an all-time low for marriage, especially compared to the 7.3 percent of unmarried women in 2007.The largely single status of Taiwan’s most popular female enter
April 1, 2011
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[Nophakhun Limsamarnphun] Japanese crisis hits Thailand, ASEAN
It will take time, possibly around six months, before the Japanese automotive and other industries hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami will achieve a full recovery.However, most partial operations could be resumed much sooner, as early as the start of April. Substantial damage, especially in the northeastern part of Japan, was caused by the magnitude-9 quake and ensuing massive tsunami
April 1, 2011
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[William Pfaff] Unexpected revelations in intervention
MUNICH ― Events surrounding the military intervention in Libya these last two weeks, and what already has happened in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain, and what continues elsewhere in the region, have produced two unplanned but important results.The always-implausible notion that the European Union could have a common foreign policy has been exploded. Since early in the Libyan crisis, France and Britain
March 31, 2011
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Address career colleges’ toxic choices in U.S.
For-profit colleges have successfully marketed a compelling story in which they star front and center as benevolent purveyors of the American dream through education and gainful employment.The reality is the complete opposite. Former students testified before a U.S. Senate oversight committee this month about exorbitant tuition costs and unfulfilled promises of good jobs. One student spoke of comp
March 31, 2011
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[Editorial] Act of courage
It must undoubtedly have been humiliating to President Lee Myung-bak to abandon one of his campaign promises ― building a new international airport. On the other hand, it was an act of courage, given that his administration did so at the risk of a voter revolt.On Wednesday, the Lee administration scrapped a plan to construct an international airport in South Gyeongsang Province. A viable alternati
March 31, 2011
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U.S. president makes his case on Libya
Before President Obama’s address to the nation about Libya, three questions about U.S. involvement there loomed large: Why, among all the places with vulnerable civilian populations, did the U.S. and its allies choose to intervene in Libya? Was the mission designed to prevent civilian suffering or to topple Moammar Gadhafi? How (and how quickly) would the U.S. extricate itself from this engagement
March 31, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] Obama’s nuanced call to arms
The Obama administration says the goals of its bombing campaign in Libya are crystal clear, but it has tied itself in knots trying to explain them.This isn’t a war, White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week, “it’s a time-limited, scope-limited military action.”“What we are doing is enforcing a (United Nations) resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is protecting the Libyan peop
March 31, 2011
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[Dick Polman] The left goes to war
I wonder how many liberals would’ve voted for Barack Obama if he had stumped the nation with this campaign vow:“We’re fighting two wars, but as president I pledge to change that policy by ordering up a third. And I will do so by exercising the prerogatives of the imperial presidency. George W. Bush felt it was necessary to get congressional authorization for the war in Iraq, but I will do him one
March 31, 2011
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[William Pesek] Amish life in Tokyo will cause backlash
What’s up with the blue jackets?This is suddenly the question I’m getting when speaking with folks overseas or reading my emails. It’s not whether I feel safe, or if I’m drinking Tokyo’s radioactive tap water or if I plan to make a beeline out of the Fukushima zone. It’s why, oh why, are Japanese leaders dressed like auto mechanics?It’s to show, of course, they are in full-blown crisis-management
March 31, 2011
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[Gareth Evans] Stick to the U.N. resolution on Libya
MELBOURNE ― The international military intervention in Libya is not about bombing for democracy or for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s head ― let alone keeping oil prices down or profits up. Legally, morally, politically, and militarily, it has only one justification: protecting Libyans from the kind of murderous harm that Qaddafi inflicted on unarmed protestors four weeks ago; has continued to inflict
March 31, 2011
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[Marifeli Perez-Stable] Latin America scores high on ‘happiness’ index
Life satisfaction ― commonly known as happiness ― is what it’s all about. What makes us happy is another matter altogether. The adage that money can’t buy happiness, it turns out, is mostly wrong.If by money we mean luxury cars, McMansions and exquisite jewelry, then there might be some truth to it. If, on the other hand, we mean individual and national well-being, money does buy us happiness.In T
March 30, 2011
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Questions about president’s wartime powers
Did President Obama break the law when he ordered U.S. planes to bomb Moammar Gadhafi’s forces in Libya? Some critics think so. But as with all discussions of the wartime powers of Congress and the president, the law is less clear than partisans would like to admit.The principal legal argument against Obama is that he should have obtained a declaration of war or its equivalent from Congress. But e
March 30, 2011
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Manufacturers must lead Japan’s recovery
Many automobile and electric appliance makers have been forced to suspend output as their production centers were crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that hit the Pacific coast of the Tohoku and Kanto regions.The road to full recovery from the disaster will be bumpy, but the manufacturing industry must play the role of a locomotive to drive the national economy. Manufacturers are urged
March 30, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Obama’s opportunity in the Middle East
CAIRO ― A young Egyptian journalist named Merette Ibrahim has come to question visiting Defense Secretary Bob Gates at a roundtable discussion. She’s passionately idealistic about Egypt’s new democracy, and you might think she would be enthusiastic about President Obama, who supports the political revolution under way here. But she isn’t: She says Egyptians find Obama and his policies confusing. W
March 30, 2011
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[Simon Johnson] Maestro nurtures a new too-big-to-fail crisis
Just tell the government to back off and all will be fine. That’s what former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems to say in “Activism,” an article published in the Spring issue of International Finance available on the Council on Foreign Relations’ website. “Current government activism is hampering what should be a broad-based robust economic recovery,” he writes. If we follow his advice
March 30, 2011
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[Kevin Hassett] Fed seat stalemate leaves diamond in the rough
If a modern-day Aesop were to write a fable that illustrates the essential character of the American government, he could model it on the story of Peter Diamond.Of the 67 winners of the Nobel Prize in economics, only a handful could be considered giants, thinkers whose names will echo in the halls of academia centuries from now. Diamond, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is
March 30, 2011
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[Yuriko Koike] Bonds: Key word in Japan’s recovery
TOKYO ― The tsunami raced through the town at eight meters per second, the speed of a gold-medal sprinter. The wave’s height reached 15 meters, towering above even the highest pole-vault bars. Ships were heaved onto hills, and cars floated like boats. After the wave passed, a chaotic mountain of debris was all that was left of Kamaishi, Japan’s oldest steel-manufacturing town, in Iwate Prefecture.
March 30, 2011
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Halting the devastation of the nation’s lakes, rivers
S. Korea’s lack of fishing regulations gives free rein to poachersSpring has nearly arrived. Frozen rivers have regained their flow. I tie hundreds of flies, translate piles of Korean language maps and carefully pack the minivan for a weekend of fishing and camping.Then a nagging question comes to mind: Where is my 2011 Republic of Korea fishing license?The unfortunate truth is that South Korea do
March 29, 2011
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[Matthew Lynn] Portuguese bailout costs more than money alone
Is it 50 billion euros? Or perhaps 70 billion euros? The cost of bailing out Portugal varies according to who makes the calculation. No one will know the real price until officials from the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank tell us.But it isn’t the actual amount that counts. It is the price the euro area is paying for having a single currency.And on that measure, a rescue p
March 29, 2011