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[Newsmaker] Trump asserts all agree he has ‘complete power’ to pardon

World NewsJul 23, 2017

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has ``complete power‘’ to issue pardons, an assertion that comes amid investigations into Russian interference in last year‘s presidential election. It wa...
[Newsmaker] Park Sung-hyun wins US Women’s Open

GolfJul 17, 2017

South Korea‘s Park Sung-hyun won her first major golf title Sunday, firing her second consecutive five-under par 67 to capture the US Women’s Open as US President Donald Trump watched. Park, the ...
[Newsmaker] Melania, Ivanka have starring roles in Trump’s foreign trip

World NewsJul 9, 2017

Why, yes, that was Ivanka Trump briefly filling her father’s seat at the Group of 20 summit, an international gathering that turned out to be quite the family affair for the Trumps. The president...
[Newsmaker] Qatar says Saudi-led ultimatum unreasonable

World NewsJun 25, 2017

Qatar on Saturday denounced a sweeping list of demands from Saudi Arabia and its allies in an escalating Gulf diplomatic crisis as unreasonable and an impingement on the emirate’s sovereignty. Sa...
[Newsmaker] Troops deployed as Britain goes on top terror alert

World NewsMay 24, 2017

Britain ordered soldiers to key sites Wednesday and raised the terror alert to maximum after the Manchester concert suicide bombing by a local man of Libyan origin who may have been radicalized in Sy...
[Newsmaker] China hosts Silk Road summit in shadow of N. Korea missile

World NewsMay 14, 2017

BEIJING -- China touted on Sunday its new Silk Road as “a project of the century” at a summit highlighting its growing leadership on globalization, but a North Korean missile test intruded on the ...
More calls for shark hunting ban after photo of fins on jetty surfaces

World NewsApr 25, 2017

KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (The Star) -- Photos of shark hunting and finning in Sabah, known as a dive paradise for its idyllic islands, that surfaced on socail media have led to renewed calls for an in...
Passion for quality, authenticity propels souvenir business

World NewsApr 25, 2017

VIENTIANE, Laos (Vientiane Times) -- An office worker taps into her passion for handmade mementos to create appealing souvenirs that also provide employment opportunities to those who may otherwise b...
[Newsmaker] China's favorite Lam wins Hong Kong leadership

World NewsMar 26, 2017

Hong Kong's new leader Carrie Lam pledged Sunday to mend political rifts after winning a vote dismissed as a sham by democracy activists who fear the loss of the city’s cherished freedoms. Hong K...
[Richard Cherwitz] Trump must loudly, persistently denounce hatred

ViewpointsDec 9, 2016

I am a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, one of America’s major research institutions. My field of study is rhetoric, a discipline dating back to ancient Greece that studies persuasion....
[Kuni Miyake] China should heed Pearl Harbor’s lessons

ViewpointsDec 9, 2016

The anniversary of Pearl Harbor is commemorated on Dec. 8 in Japan -- the time locally when thousands of miles away, its ships and warplanes sank much of the US Pacific Fleet and launched war against...
[Editorial] Amendment needed

EditorialJul 29, 2016

Last year, local journalists as well as private school organizations filed four separate petitions, asking the Constitutional Court to review the antigraft law, also called the Kim Young-ran Act. ...
[Editorial] Corporate tax

EditorialJul 29, 2016

The tax code revision pushed this week has somewhat reflected policymakers’ efforts to maximize the effect of the government-led supplementary budget worth 11 trillion won ($9.8 billion). The taxatio...
[J. Bradford DeLong] History gives lessons in inequality

ViewpointsJul 29, 2016

The Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen recently gave a talk in Lisbon about inequality that demonstrated one of the virtues of being a scholar of economic history. Eichengreen, like me, glories in ...
[Robert B. Reich] Does Hillary Clinton get it?

ViewpointsJul 29, 2016

Does Hillary Clinton understand that the biggest divide in American politics is no longer between the right and the left, but between the antiestablishment and the establishment? I worry she does...