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[Eli Lake] Why Egypt’s exiles are especially terrified

For the last six years, Nancy Okail has led a relatively safe life in exile. As the executive director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, she had a high enough profile that she didn’t wo...

October 29, 2018
Columnists
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Global economy’s three games

Chess masters are able to play simultaneously on several boards with several partners. And the more time passes, the more US President Donald Trump’s international economic strategy looks like such a...

October 29, 2018
Columnists
[Mary Schmich] In this time of immense fear, how to find your purpose

I was sitting in a coffeehouse with my laptop recently, diligently scrolling through the horrors of the world, wondering what useful thing there was to say about any of it, when a man I know stopped ...

October 29, 2018
Columnists
[Robert Sands] James Church’s Inspector O series and negotiating with North Korea

Upon arrival at my hotel in Hong Kong after a few weeks in Shenzhen, China, I raced to a pub. While reading John le Carre’s “The Honourable Schoolboy” and waiting on some fish and chips, an Englishma...

October 29, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Self-contradiction

President Moon Jae-in’s controversial ratification of inter-Korean agreements he signed with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang last month highlights the legal and political complexities of...

October 29, 2018
Editorial
Hyundai Oilbank to support gasoline quality inspections

South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank said Monday that it would expand its support for gasoline quality assessments at gas stations during the winter season. A promotional image for the “Mobile Lab” ...

October 29, 2018
Industry
OB joins beer yoga trend

Riding on the growing popularity of “beer yoga,” South Korea’s largest beer maker by revenue Oriental Brewery said it recently hosted a beer yoga class in Itaewon, central Seoul. Beer yoga refers to...

October 29, 2018
Industry
[Letter to the Editor] What’s behind the BTS syndrome

The definition of good music may differ from person to person, but it seems certain that good music soothes souls. It helps us vent emotional catharsis in its own way. There are two ways when it come...

October 28, 2018
Columnists
[Trudy Rubin] Don’t expect miracles when Trump and Xi meet at G-20

In the Chinese capital, the buzz words these days are Buenos Aires and midterms. As the Trump-led trade war with China heats up, Washington is signaling a more confrontational relationship with Beij...

October 28, 2018
Columnists
[Baltimore Sun] Compassion for caravan

Somewhere in the West Wing, there is doubtless a White House staffer assigned the task of collecting dehumanizing language for the administration to use to describe the thousands of Central American ...

October 28, 2018
Columnists
[Cod Satrusayang] A word against regulation

When the printing press first began spreading throughout Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, it brought with it a revolution in and democratization of ideas. Scripture and scientific text were spr...

October 28, 2018
Columnists
[Naomi Burke-Shyne] Bangladesh’s deadly war on drugs

The audio quality is poor and the sound of gunshots muffled, but the agony in Ekramul Haque’s voice is unmistakable. On May 26, while speaking with his family by phone, Haque, an elected official in ...

October 28, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Concerns on special court

The ruling and three minor opposition parties agreed to rush through a bill to create a special court to deal with suspicions of “judicial power abuse and trial manipulation” involving the former Sup...

October 28, 2018
Editorial
Married female workers show ‘low’ satisfaction in household life: poll

Male and female workers experienced low satisfaction in work life and household life, respectively, research showed Wednesday. The result of a survey of 3,798 married people categorized in four grou...

October 26, 2018
Social affairs
VOICE FOR REFORMATION

Pastors from the Christian Leaders Fellowship hold a news conference in Seoul on Thursday to mark the 500 years since the Protestant Reformation. They spoke on Christian reformation and the future di...

October 26, 2018
Culture

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