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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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[William Pesek] Lady Gaga is shaming those spending $309 billion
You know things are bad when pop stars a world away get more fired up about a humanitarian crisis than a nation’s own leaders.Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan would no doubt take umbrage at this assertion. Many of Japan’s 126 million residents wouldn’t, as television cameras that had been fixed on the nuclear fiasco in Fukushima turn further north. We are getting an eyeful of millions in earthqua
March 27, 2011
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[Michael Boskin] California economy in trouble
STANFORD ― California has long been a harbinger of national and global trends (both wonderful and overindulgent), a birthplace of innovation in everything from technology and entertainment to lifestyles. The world’s most important technology companies still make their start ― and their headquarters ― in California: Apple, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Google, and Facebook, to name a few in the neighborhoo
March 27, 2011
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[Gwyneth Cravens] U.S. needs to leave Mideast bad guys alone
With the current military operation in Libya, the U.S. has taken on a third campaign for forcible regime change in the Middle East.No matter how we might try to convince ourselves otherwise ― that we are only “protecting civilians” or “implementing the will of the international community” ― Libya now joins Afghanistan and Iraq as cases where the U.S. military is using force to bring down a Muslim
March 27, 2011
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[Gwyneth Cravens] Nuclear power wins it over fossil fuel romance
Amid all the hysteria about nuclear meltdowns and radiation poisoning, here’s something to consider: U.S. commercial reactors have never caused a single death.Worldwide, nuclear power has the lowest accident rate based on the amount of energy generated by any source. Compare that record with the havoc caused by dam failures and the disease and deaths wreaked by fossil-fuel pollution and explosions
March 27, 2011
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[F. Stephen Larrabee] Turkish model hard sell to Arab world
WASHINGTON ― The dramatic revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have acted as a catalyst for a broader Arab awakening that has fundamentally shaken the Middle East’s political order, which has been in place since the late 1970s. While it is too early to predict the final outcomes, several important regional implications are already beginning to emerge.First, the revolts are a double-edged sword for
March 27, 2011
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Streamlining relief operations in Japan
As more than 10 days have passed since the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, the government should quickly review its setup so that it can carry out its relief operations as efficiently and effectively as possible.The extent of the damage wrought by the March 11 quake dwarfs that of Japan’s last big disaster ― the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake ― and Pri
March 25, 2011
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[Rebecca Solnit] Surprised by the Arab revolutions
There were surprises in this year’s unfinished revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.Many in the West were surprised that the Arab world, which we have regularly been told is medieval, hierarchical and undemocratic, was full of young men and women using their cellphones, their Internet access and their bodies in streets and squares to foment change through direct democracy and popular power.And
March 25, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Gates scanning the dark territory
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia ― Defense Secretary Bob Gates is running through the standard list of factors that have caused political upheaval across the Middle East: the youth bulge, unemployment, corruption. I start to ask another question but Gates cuts me off, as if he wants to underline the dangers and uncertainties of this moment of history. Gates says the unrest has highlighted “ethnic, sectarian
March 25, 2011
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[Editorial] Can election end the Thai political impasse?
After they parted some years ago when his trusted sidekick left his Chart Thai Party for the much more attractive Thai Rak Thai Party, Banharn Silpa-acha said his ties with Newin Chidchob were over and done with. That was just over a decade ago. But over a recent dinner between the Bhumjai Thai and Chart Thai Pattana parties, the two political veterans basically kissed and made up as their henchme
March 25, 2011
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[Editorial] Pygmies now in Pakistan leadership positions
It is Pakistan Day on March 23. While it brings back to mind the promise that the nation showed 71 years ago, also puts into sharp relief the failings and the follies of the later as well as the present generations in not living up to that promise. It was a vibrant people then, charged with a mission that they fulfilled in mere seven years to the utter amazement of the world; now, it is a depresse
March 25, 2011
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[Li Qinggong] Politics behind attacks on Libya
U.S., British and French forces began their military strikes against Libya on Saturday (March 19) in an operation the United States has codenamed Operation Odyssey Dawn.The military action followed a West-engineered United Nations Security Council resolution on the establishment of a “no-fly” zone in Libya and started with an hours-long bombardment of the North African country.Western countries ha
March 25, 2011
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[Mohamed A. El-Erian] erstanding Japan’s crisis from economic standpoints
NEWPORT BEACH ― As we all struggle to comprehend the economic and financial impact of Japan’s calamity, it is tempting to seek historical analogies for guidance. Indeed, many have been quick to cite the aftermath of the terrible 1995 Kobe earthquake. But, while that example provides some insights, it is too limited to understand what lies ahead for Japan, and excessive reliance on it could undermi
March 25, 2011
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Put an end to the absurd budget farce
Last week, Congress passed yet another stopgap measure funding the U.S. government through April 8, but lawmakers still can’t decide on a final budget for the current fiscal year. It was the sixth such temporary extension since the budget year began. “It’s a terrible way to do business,” said Rep. James P. Moran, D-Va. Apparently, lots of frustrated Americans agree with him.A new Pew Research Cent
March 24, 2011
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[Margaret Carlson] Girl power tests history’s great-man theory
There’s no better way to make the point that President Barack Obama is indecisive, dithering and prone to bow (literally) and scrape (figuratively) to foreigners than with a flood of reports claiming it was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, watching Colonel Moammar Gadhafi turn back the rebels and strafe his own citizens, who declared war on Libya.Not by herself, of course, and not “war,” which
March 24, 2011
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[Robert Shiller] A bubble candidate for next decade
NEW HAVEN ― People frequently ask me, as someone who has written on market speculation, where the next big speculative bubble is likely to be. Will it be in housing again? Will it be in the stock market?I don’t know, though I have some hunches. It is impossible for anyone to predict bubbles accurately. In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion. A bubbl
March 24, 2011
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[Roger Bilham] Japan’s megaquake is template for U.S. west coast
As the world’s attention remains fixed on Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors, scientists are beginning to understand the details of the megaquake that brought so much ruin to Japan, saying it’s probably the largest temblor to hit the nation in 1,000 years.Seismologists have known for some time that over periods of millennia such megaquakes occur. They pack the punch of three or more major earthquak
March 24, 2011
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[William Pesek] Buffett ‘buying opportunity’ meets next big one
The Z/Yen Group just published its annual Global Financial Centers Index and Tokyo is tied with Shanghai for fifth place. If the survey were retaken today, what might happen to Tokyo’s standing?What a difference 12 days make: a massive earthquake, deadly tsunamis, radiation panic that only now is coming under control and blackouts that halted production at the likes of Toyota Motor Corp. Japan’s w
March 24, 2011
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[Sanjeev Sanyal] Human cost of indifference to genocide
NEW DELHI ― It is exactly 40 years since the Pakistani military regime of Yahya Khan initiated “Operation Searchlight” in March 1971. That military expedition was but the latest in a series of pogroms carried out to intimidate the restive population of what was then called East Pakistan ― today’s independent Bangladesh. What followed was one of the worst massacres in human history, now all but for
March 24, 2011
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Convey a positive vision for Latin America
President Obama’s first extended tour through Latin America comes not a moment too soon. There’s nothing like a personal visit by the president to showcase U.S.-Latin American relations and disarm critics who feel the president has neglected the region. To make this visit count, the president must speak to the region’s concerns and anxieties.Brazil, his first stop, has been labeled “the country of
March 23, 2011
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‘Arab spring’ spreads from county to country
Far from the perils of Japan, the world’s attention also focuses on Libya. There U.S. and allied warplanes and cruise missiles aim to force dictator Moammar Gadhafi from power, or at least help antigovernment rebels keep fighting.That’s the riveting Main Event at the moment in the greater Middle East. But peel away from that military spectacle for a moment. Take a glance across the rest of the Mid
March 23, 2011