The Korea Herald

[Fumihiro Kitayama]

ViewpointsOct 10, 2019

In April, Japan made a significant policy shift on accepting foreign workers, including those who will perform simple labour. A decrease in the working-age population caused this change. However, i...
[Chon Shi-yong] Kim and Trump: A dangerous bromance

ViewpointsSept 1, 2019

When they hurled insults at each other such as “little rocket man” and “dotard,” and traded threats of nuclear annihilation, few could imagine that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Do...
'Climate change a key reason for rising prevalence of dengue': scientists

World NewsAug 27, 2019

Scientists expect warming temperatures will lead to worse dengue outbreaks in places the disease already lurks, and outbreaks in brand new places. Record-breaking dengue outbreaks around the region ...
Scientists are taking the fight to the world’s most dangerous creature

World NewsAug 27, 2019

Around the world, mosquitoes are winning their war of attrition. With the help from a tiny bacterium, scientists are fighting back. The battle between humans and mosquitoes has been raging for centu...
Could data help us tell Dengue’s future?

World NewsAug 27, 2019

2019 is one of the worst years for dengue outbreaks. Scientists and officials looking for new ways to use data to predict the deadly disease. In the Philippines more than 622 people—most of whom are...
[Supalak Ganjanakhundee] ASEAN should guarantee safe return of Rohingyas to Myanmar

ViewpointsAug 25, 2019

ASEAN has a lot of work to do for the sake of its own relevancy as Myanmar and Bangladesh make another attempt to repatriate thousands of Muslim Rohingyas to strife-torn Rakhine state while the situa...
[Mahfuz Anam] 'Praise Freedom' is new press freedom

ViewpointsAug 7, 2019

Press freedom was a fundamental pillar of modern civilization. Nearly all countries, save the communist bloc and dictatorial regimes, ensured special protection for the media in their constitutions....
[Andrew Sheng] Bastille Day and global populist uprising

ViewpointsJul 22, 2019

July 14 is celebrated in France as Bastille Day, on which day 230 years ago, French peasants stormed the Bastille prison in Paris and sparked off the French Revolution. Thus began the populist moveme...
[Zhou Shuchun, David Gosset] Tea and wine, the twain shall meet

ViewpointsJul 9, 2019

Beijing - During one of his visits to Europe, President Xi Jinping referred to tea and wine as beverages symbolizing the difference and compatibilities between Chinese and European cultures. Indeed, ...
[Warren Fernandez] Forging community ties, one friendly gesture at a time

ViewpointsJul 8, 2019

Singapore is well known for its Third to First World economic transformation, its efficient, effective Government, as well as for being a very fine, clean and green city. The annual Shangri-La Dialo...
[Andrew Sheng] After the protests, what next? A debate on liberalism

ViewpointsJul 7, 2019

The old order is broken. No less than Russian President Putin has declared the neoliberal order “obsolete.” We now have to think the unthinkable -- every dream has turned into a nightmare -- the land...
[Andrew Sheng] Measures against Huawei signal digital ‘divorce’

ViewpointsJun 24, 2019

It is a cliche to say that we live in a digital age, with many countries upgrading to become knowledge economies. There is supposedly a digital divide, between those who have access to digital knowle...
[Andrew Sheng] On board SS Planet Titanic

ViewpointsJun 10, 2019

World Environment Day (June 5) was a good time to reflect on the existential threat of climate change. After five of the hottest years in living history, there is little doubt that climate change is...
[Andrew Sheng] Why are stock markets complacent?

ViewpointsMay 27, 2019

There has been so much bad news lately that the only good news, if you believe it, lies in the stock market. Simply put, despite the trade war and all the political bad news, the US stock markets hov...
[Andrew Sheng] Is democracy in retreat?

ViewpointsMay 13, 2019

A fortnight ago, markets were going great guns, with the S&P500 hitting a record high, even as there was increasing evidence that global trade and many economies were slowing. Last week the markets t...