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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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[Bob Keeler] Chipping away at Environment Protection Agency
Long before he became our president, Ronald Reagan was widely known for a line he delivered often: “At General Electric, progress is our most important product.” What he didn’t emphasize was GE’s other important product: pollution. The huge company is fully or partly responsible for dozens of Superf
Aug. 16, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] K-pop is not enough on its own
Despite the increasing popularity of K-pop and Korean TV dramas overseas, Korean literature does not seem to attract foreigners’ attention much. With the possible exception of Shin Kyung-sook’s “Please Look after Mom,” which was on the New York Times bestseller list for a while, Korean literature in
Aug. 16, 2011
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[William D. Cohan] Ending the moral rot on Wall Street (Part 1)
The following is the first installment of a three-part article on Wall Street corruption and remedies for it. ― Ed.What will it take for Americans to finally get the message that much of Wall Street, in its current form, is a corrupt enterprise in need of a top-to-bottom overhaul, a task that the ye
Aug. 16, 2011
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[Pankaj Mishra] London’s rioters are Thatcher’s grandchildren
I am often asked, when in the U.S. or Europe, whether I feel frightened while traveling through such obviously dangerous places as Afghanistan and Kashmir. It’s hard for me to explain, and so I never confess, that I feel more insecure on the streets of Tower Hamlets, a London borough just south of T
Aug. 16, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] Settlements keep Mideast unsettled
GUSH ETZION, West Bank ― Shaul Goldstein knows that most everyone on earth dislikes him and his kind. For some it’s visceral hatred. For others he represents the largest obstacle to solving a problem everyone everywhere wants resolved.“We are the enemy of the world,” he volunteered without any promp
Aug. 15, 2011
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[J. William Leonard] When national secrecy gets out of hand
Every 6-year-old knows what a secret is. But apparently our nation’s national security establishment does not.Consider this strange case from earlier this year. On June 8, the National Security Agency, a top-secret government spy agency, heralded the “declassification” of a 200-year-old publication,
Aug. 15, 2011
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[Brahma Chellaney] Ethnic tremors an obstacle to stability in China
NEW DELHI ― In the face of spreading civil unrest among China’s Uighur population, the Chinese government’s love-fest with its all-weather ally, Pakistan, may be starting to sour. Indeed, the authorities in China’s Xinjiang province are charging that a prominent Uighur separatist that they captured
Aug. 15, 2011
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[Seth Masket and Hans Noel] Don’t look to a third-party candidate to lead U.S.
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Barack Obama and an independent and pragmatic president beholden to no party, ideology or interest group are walking down the street. At the same time, all four spot a dollar bill on the ground. Who gets the dollar?Obama, of course. The other three are figments of your
Aug. 15, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] A disconnect on immigration
Ipsos has just released a poll measuring citizens’ perception of immigration in 23 countries. Despite what politicians around the world would have their countrymen believe, the average person isn’t buying the benefits of current immigration policy.The poll proves that our collective gut is indeed in
Aug. 15, 2011
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[Robert Reich] Jobs bill needed to stop double-dip
Republicans repeatedly assured the nation that once the debt-limit deal was done ― capping spending, cutting the budget deficit, and getting “98 percent” of what they wanted, according to House Speaker John Boehner ― the economy would bounce back.Guess what? Just the opposite seems to be happening.
Aug. 14, 2011
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[Jeff Dietrich] Home sweet shopping cart for those on skid row
It looked like an anti-terrorist takedown: five cop cars, 10 police officers, a yellow skip loader and a 5-ton dump truck. They screeched to a halt and blocked off 6th Street in front of our soup kitchen in downtown Los Angeles. But their target this spring was not a suicide bomber or a hidden nucle
Aug. 14, 2011
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[Peter Singer] Moving toward a planet for all apes
MELBOURNE ― Two new movies released this month ― one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary ― raise the issue of our relations with our closest non-human relatives, the great apes. Both dramatize insights and lessons that should not be ignored.Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Pla
Aug. 14, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] When being authentic requires hard work, focus
Want to be authentic? Good luck! These days it takes deliberate effort, focus, even a long-term commitment to change. This might sound surprising to those of you who associate authenticity with just being yourself, but misconceptions about authenticity abound, not least among them the idea that it c
Aug. 14, 2011
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[Jon Lee] Trust your employees
The following is a second personal letter to SCB Group CEO, Peter Sands, from Jon Lee, a management consultant, regarding the current disputes at SC First Bank. The first letter was published on July 27. ― Ed.Dear Mr. Peter Sands:I wrote to you two weeks ago in this newspaper column to provide you w
Aug. 14, 2011
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[Daniel Akst] Americans have Congress’ number
The American people believe all kinds of things. Three years ago, for example, a Harris Poll found that 71 percent believe in angels but only 47 percent believe in evolution.That’s not all. Skepticism on global warming has been increasing, and surprising numbers believe all kinds of nonsense about t
Aug. 14, 2011
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[Jonathan Weil] Where is the money to save banks?
Forget free-market fundamentals. What matters most to the capital markets now is whether the governments of the U.S. and western Europe have the will and the wherewithal to save the global financial system from disaster yet again. A healthy climate for the efficient allocation of capital, this
Aug. 12, 2011
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[Zhang Jie and Zhong Feiteng] The Asia-Pacific region poses multiple challenges
Defence communications between China and Japan were interrupted and bilateral ties became tense after a Chinese trawler collided with Japan Coast Guard ships in September last year near Diaoyu Islands. Despite the untoward development, China responded sympathetically, both at the government and nong
Aug. 12, 2011
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[Jasper Kim] Underbelly of the ‘Korean Wave’
Imagine a world where slavery, often involving underage and unsuspecting victims, is not only condoned, but legally enforced. This is not fiction, but fact, in one of Asia’ most prolific entertainment export-oriented country ― South Korea (Asia’s fourth largest economy and OECD member state) ― invol
Aug. 12, 2011
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[Editorial] No time for complacency
The combination of soaring consumer prices at home and the worsening global economic outlook has ostensibly added a further complication to China’s endeavor to keep economic growth on track while preventing overheating. As the world’s second largest economy, China will have no chance of maintaining
Aug. 12, 2011
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[Editorial] Taiwan cannot risk taking growing waistlines lightly
A local television news station reported on Monday that 42 percent of Taiwanese people over the age of 20 are considered overweight. The term “overweight” is somewhat subjective and depending on the person could range from having just an extra kilo or two to bordering on obesity. But the statistic i
Aug. 12, 2011