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Tseng returns to defend Kraft Nabisco title

GolfMar 31, 2011

...that traditional plunge and swam all the way to the world No. 1 ranking after winning the LPGA Tour’s first major of the year at Mission Hills in 2010. “I feel really excited to come back, especially...by Tseng, who’s less than nine months older than the former teen prodigy from Hawaii. “I think she’s really improved over the last couple of years, and she’s a good player,” Wie said. “It’s pretty am...
G20 highlights conflicts over currency

IndustryMar 31, 2011

Group’s talks in China focus on monetary reforms, as players clash on currency, other issues NANJING, China (AP) ― Conflicts over exchange rate policy surfaced Thursday at talks by finance mandarins...ommentary reiterating Beijing’s complaints over U.S. stimulus policies and global reliance on the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency. “The U.S. Federal Reserve acts without any constrain...
Google co-founder’s mom gives cells

PeopleMar 31, 2011

Cells donated by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s mother are helping the search for a cure of Parkinson’s disease. According to San Jose Mercury News, a Silicon Valley daily, there have been no witne...inson’s patient Genia Brin and watching them sicken and perish. The feat, documented in this month’s issue of the journal Cell by Stanford’s Renee Reijo Pera, could make it possible for the first tim...
Irvine Mayor Kang gets honorary Ph.D.

PeopleMar 31, 2011

Irvine City Mayor Kang Suk-hee, the first Korean-American mayor of a major U.S. city, will receive an honorary doctoral degree in business management from Dongseo University. The Busan-based school said that the degree recognizes Kang’s devotion to the economic growth and educational development of Irvine City in California as well as his achievements in raising the status of Korean-Americans. ...
Six high school students receive IELTS scholarship

PeopleMar 31, 2011

The Korea Herald, the British Council Korea and IDP Education awarded scholarships to six Korean high school students Wednesday under their joint program to help students prepare to study in the U.S. through IELTS. IELTS, or International English Language Testing System, is the world’s leading test of English for higher education, recognized by schools worldwide, including those in the U.S., Bri...
Address career colleges’ toxic choices in U.S.

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

...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 completing a program in video-game design and ending up in the video...
[Editorial] Again Dokdo

EditorialMar 31, 2011

Koreans are rightly angered each time Japan renews an unwarranted claim to Korea’s easternmost rocky islets of Dokdo. This time, however, many of them voiced as much disappointment as anger on hearin...e Korean government dealt with the matter as it had forcefully done in the past ― bringing in Japan’s envoy to the foreign minister’s office and lodging a strong protest. The diplomatic task of immedi...
[Editorial] Act of courage

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

...osed sites was economically viable. Is the controversy over the airport project now wrapped up? Hardly. Presidential aides say Lee is planning to address the nation with regard to his administration’s decision, apparently in an effort to put the fallout behind him. But all he needs to do is say he is sorry that he could not make good on his pledge, and nothing more. Revolting against the decisio...
U.S. president makes his case on Libya

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

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 engagemen...
[Doyle McManus] Obama’s nuanced call to arms

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

...ots 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...it showed where the administration’s well of clarity runs dry. Here’s the problem: President Obama’s strategy is clear, but only for the short term ― the days, not weeks, he allotted for U.S.-led air...
[Dick Polman] The left goes to war

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

...tter. When I launch our third intervention, I pledge to inform the members of Congress only when it’s too late for them to do anything about it. Thank you very much!” But that’s where we are today, i...e sentences endorsing the mission, then added: “U.S. participation is strengthened by the president’s continued consultation with Congress.” In translation, here’s what that sentence means: “If Obama ...
[William Pesek] Amish life in Tokyo will cause backlash

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

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-manage...
[Gareth Evans] Stick to the U.N. resolution on Libya

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

...al 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 militar...t on his opponents in Benghazi and other rebel-held territory. When that job is done, the military’s job will be done. Regime change is for the Libyan people themselves to achieve. It should not be ...
Japan weighs entombing nuclear plant

World BusinessMar 31, 2011

...Japan is considering pouring concrete into its crippled Fukushima atomic plant as the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency warned that a potential uncontrolled chain reaction could cause further ra...ns consist of a burst of heat, radiation and sometimes an “ethereal blue flash,” according to the U.S. Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory web site. Twenty-one workers have been killed ...
American Ballet returns to Moscow after 45 yrs

TheaterMar 31, 2011

MOSCOW (AP) ― The American Ballet Theatre has returned to Moscow for the first time since the 1960s and the first time since the defection of Mikhail Baryshnikov, who left Russia’s famed Bolshoi Theatre to bring his luminous star power to the U.S. ballet company. ABT opened a three-night run Tuesday on the new stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, whose company was touring Canada when Baryshnikov defect...