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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Obama speech sets off another Mideast standoff
Rarely have the differences between a U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister been so prominently displayed as they were last week when Barack Obama hosted Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Netanyahu’s visit capped a week of activity: Jordan’s King Abdullah visited a few days before and then Obama delivered a speech outlining his views of an eventual peace agreement.To no one’s surprise,
May 27, 2011
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[Anne Michaud] Peace Corps’ shameful secret
My grandmother didn’t have much money. She was a widow who had raised five children on her husband’s paycheck from the textile mill. So when she tried to give me $1,000 not to go into the Peace Corps, it was a very big offer.I told her that I wanted to serve and that it wasn’t about money.And I went ― to Togo, West Africa, in 1983. My grandmother’s fears were about the kind of men I would meet the
May 27, 2011
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[Michael Boskin] A retreat from growth of welfare state?
STANFORD ― Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, by winning an outright majority of seats in his country’s parliament for the first time since assuming office, continues a remarkable series of national election victories, backed by voters demanding at least a pause, and perhaps some reversal, of the growth of the welfare state.Moreover, Harper’s victory follows the Republican Party’s resounding
May 27, 2011
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Taiwan must ease restrictions on hiring of foreign workers
Earlier this month, The China Post reported that a meeting was held by the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) to discuss the possibility of relaxing some of the current restrictions on hiring foreigners as “white-collar” employees. Immigration officials and others in the fields of education and economics attended the conference, but the report stated that the meeting concluded without any consensus be
May 27, 2011
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Tight power supply
Chinese power companies are trying hard to make a big fanfare about the urgent need to raise the price of electricity to avoid the country’s worst power shortage in decades. The country’s leading power distributor, State Grid Corp., warned on Monday that some 26 provincial regions will suffer combined power shortages of 30 million kilowatts this year. Should that be the case, enterprises should br
May 27, 2011
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Mizuho must regain trust through reform
Mizuho Financial Group Inc., one of the country’s three major banking groups, is being put to the test over whether it can evolve into a financial group with a sense of unity by carrying out necessary reforms.On Monday, the company announced a plan to integrate the operations of Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank and other banking units under its wing in a few years.The integration is aimed at reg
May 27, 2011
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[Pradumna B. Rana] Asian Monetary Fund so near yet so far
Asia has not forgotten the “Asian Monetary Fund” (AMF). In fact, the case for the AMF has been much strengthened by the difficulty in reforming the governance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).On May 4, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and its three Northeast Asian partners China, Japan and South Korea met in Hanoi, Vietnam, and took an important step toward establishing the AMF.
May 27, 2011
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[Frank Farley] What makes politicians stray?
Last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the club of leading male political figures who are known to have cheated on their spouses. Other members have included presidents (John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example), members or former members of Congress (among them, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich and John Ensign), and governors (including Eliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford).So w
May 26, 2011
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What Oprah wrought during past 25 years
On Wednesday, the final episode of Oprah Winfrey’s long-running TV talk show will air. In the 25 years since the show has been nationally syndicated, Winfrey ― or, really, Oprah, since that is how she is globally known ― has made herself a singular force in television and the popular culture. In that period, she has topped the daytime ratings as talk show host, earned an Oscar nomination for her a
May 26, 2011
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Libya war shows limits of War Powers Act
Under the War Powers Act, President Barack Obama had until Friday to get congressional authorization to continue U.S. military operations in Libya. But the day passed without his even asking for it, which means he has to disengage within 30 days. Obama may not heed that requirement either.Some members of Congress, from both parties, are unhappy about the administration’s disregard of the law. Six
May 26, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Positive signs for talks in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON ― The “fighting season” has started in Afghanistan, with deadly attacks almost every day. But at the same time, diplomats see what one calls “hopeful signs” that a regional framework for peace talks with the Taliban may slowly be emerging. The most important development is that Germany has been mediating secret talks between the U.S. government and Tayyab Agha, a Taliban official who in
May 26, 2011
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[Jeffrey Goldberg] Palestinians have time on their side
If I were a Palestinian (and, should there be any confusion on this point, I am not), and if I were the sort of Palestinian who believed that Israel should be wiped off the map, then I would be quite pleased with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s performance before Congress this morning. I would applaud Netanyahu for including no bold initiatives that would have suggested to the world that Israe
May 26, 2011
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Is ‘perp walk’ unfair to the accused?
The arrest of a leading French statesman and politician, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on charges of sexually assaulting a New York hotel chambermaid became a transatlantic media spectacle when he was photographed ― manacled and miserable ― being led from a Manhattan lockup. Publishing such pictures is illegal in France, and some commentators there were incensed by the photos of what U.S. reporters call
May 26, 2011
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[Shlomo Ben Ami] Netanyahu misguided in his belief about border war
TEL AVIV ― Binyamin Netanyahu’s furious rejection of U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposal to use the 1967 borders as the basis for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute ― frontiers that he called “utterly indefensible” ― reflects not only the Israeli prime minister’s poor statesmanship, but also his antiquated military philosophy.In an era of ballistic missiles and other weapon
May 26, 2011
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Top IMF post should’t be reserved for Europe
An unprecedented scandal involving the former head of the International Monetary Fund has left the organization’s top post vacant.No time should be wasted in selecting a new IMF chief to ensure the organization will be able to regain its international credibility, which has been diminished by the scandal.Former IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested and indicted on charges
May 25, 2011
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[Barry Goldman] Wasps do it, but why should we?
Jacob is a golden retriever. Like many goldens, his favorite activity is retrieving a tennis ball. We throw the ball; he brings it back and drops it at our feet. It can go on for hours. Actually, we don’t know how long it could go on because we always give up before he does.But Jacob sometimes gets stuck when we play this game at my in-laws’ pool. This is because of two fixed, internal rules he ha
May 25, 2011
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The revival of the Mediterranean Sea
MADRID ― The Mediterranean is undergoing a monumental political transformation. Protests on its southern shores have now begun the process of bringing democracy to this region. Less visibly, perhaps, the Mediterranean is also undergoing another revival, equally important in terms of geo-economics.The changes in the world’s balance of power from the West to the East, from the Atlantic to the Pacifi
May 25, 2011
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Obama, Ryan, Gingrich muddle health debate
Love it or hate it, Medicare is driving itself and our country broke. The president’s proposed policy and that of Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, are viewed as miles apart. The reality is different. And the silly name-calling is obscuring their considerable common ground. It’s even confusing a major presidential candidate.President Barack Obama is relying on a special panel, to be
May 25, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] Obama’s Mideast policy...shaped by hopes, fears
The United States may be the world’s only remaining superpower, but we’ve been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.Tunisia held its revolution without American help, unless you count Facebook and Twitter. In Egypt, President Obama probably helped speed Hosni Mubarak’s departure by withdrawing his backing of the regime, but it was the Egyptians’ revolution, not ours.In
May 25, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] What Strauss-Kahn case reveals about French culture
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, known as the “Great Seducer” in his home country of France, flunked out at seducing New York Judge Melissa C. Jackson last week. Instead, she sent him to Rikers Island pending further court appearances in the wake of a Sofitel maid’s accusations that he attempted to force his charisma upon her before leaving for the airport and boarding a p
May 25, 2011