The Korea Herald

[William Pesek] Mr. 210% sees M&A boom in Japan as best deflation slayer

Feb 13, 2011

Steel company mergers are a little below Timothy Geithner’s radar. Yet the U.S. Treasury secretary should think long and hard about a recent one in Japan. On the surface, Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumi...
[Brahma Chellaney] The mystery of the Karmapa Lama

Feb 13, 2011

NEW DELHI ― The seizure by police of large sums of Chinese currency from the Indian monastery of the Karmapa Lama ― one of the most-important figures in Tibetan Buddhism ― has revived old suspicions ...
[Naomi Wolf] WikiLeaks’ release of cable: A press without principles

Feb 13, 2011

NEW YORK ― Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is in the news again, this time after former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer turned over to him confidential records on roughly 2,000 wealthy individual...
Competition feeding drive for healthier food

Feb 11, 2011

The broad strokes of the “2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans” report released last week are elegantly simple: Eating is and should be as pleasurable as it is necessary, but we also need to eat le...
U.S. must reverse its image as apologist

Feb 11, 2011

While much attention focuses on how gracefully to dislodge President Hosni Mubarak from his 30-year reign, the Obama administration should be asking how U.S. policies helped him remain in office that...
[Tim Rutten] Beware Islamists in the wings

Feb 11, 2011

From the American perspective, the transition now underway in Egypt confirms John Kenneth Galbraith’s famous appraisal of politics as a choice between “the disastrous and the unpalatable.” What the ...
[David Ignatius] Struggle is just beginning in Egypt

Feb 11, 2011

WASHINGTON ― Wael Ghonim, the charismatic young Google executive who helped launch the protests in Tahrir Square, sounded the trumpet in a first Twitter message Thursday afternoon: “Mission accompli...
[Editorial] New questions raised about death penalty

Feb 11, 2011

Imagine what was going through the mind of Taiwanese Air Force private Chiang Kuo-ching as he was being led to his execution in August 1997. What a horrifyingly surreal moment it must have been for t...
[Editorial] Temple of gloom

Feb 11, 2011

ASEAN unity is again under strain as Cambodian and Thai troops keep up their animus over an 11th-century temple astride their common border. Ownership of the Preah Vihear Hindu temple had been determ...
[Editorial] War only means both countries stand to lose

Feb 11, 2011

There are people in both Thailand and Cambodia who want their soldiers to go all the way. The problem is, even though this might bring the territorial dispute to a conclusion, it would only be for th...
[Andrew Sheng] Financial crisis: Out with the tiger, in with the rabbit

Feb 11, 2011

As the Year of the Tiger faded, a year of drama and change came to an end. The last Year of the Tiger was 1998, an unforgettable year because of the Asian financial crisis. As the tiger year faded, t...
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] Tunisian catalyst for Arab democracy

Feb 10, 2011

DAVOS ― The whole world celebrates Tunisia’s democratic revolution, which has set off a cascade of events elsewhere in the region ― particularly in Egypt ― with untold consequences. The eyes of the w...
Women’s right to make reproductive choices

Feb 10, 2011

The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortions Act” introduced Jan. 20 in the U.S. House of Representatives is a broad attack on women’s reproductive health care. The talk for the last couple of days has bee...
[Matthew Lynn] Rich get richer when governments tout austerity

Feb 10, 2011

Remember all that stuff about how the credit crunch was going to usher in a new age of austerity? The financial industry would shrink; the gulf between the haves and the have-nots would close; and ta...
[Charles King and Rajan Menon] Terrorism meets xenophobia in Russia

Feb 10, 2011

If current demographic trends continue, within the next half-century Muslims will constitute a sizable part, perhaps even a plurality, of Russia’s population; indeed, Moscow currently has more Muslim...