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Controversy rekindled over when to name criminals, suspects
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Seoul transit pass for travelers to be available starting July
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Hybe-Ador CEO conflict gets messier
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Battery makers ramp up efforts to diversify graphite supply chain
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Prosecutors to summon pastor who allegedly gave Dior bag to first lady
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‘Monk’ DJ spreading Buddhism goes global
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[LLG] Unseen inheritance: Trauma of transnational adoption 'trickles down' to adoptees' children
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Court's ruling set to shape path of medical school expansion
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Loans of self-employed swell 50% in four years
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[KH Explains] Hyundai Motor’s plan for new landmark keeps hitting bumps
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Taiwan must choose to build home-grown defense industry
Now it is almost certain that the U.S. will refuse Taiwan’s request for the sale of the new F-16C/D fighter jets for Taiwan’s self-defense. While an official announcement on the U.S. Congress’s decision is expected next week, an unnamed senior congressional aide was widely quoted as saying that the
Sept. 23, 2011
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Japan’s ruling party must present state vision
The Democratic Party of Japan must deepen debate on constitutional reform and present the vision of the state it aims to establish.In the Diet, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said, “Amid the mountain of pressing issues we face, I don’t think constitutional revision is a top priority on the policy age
Sept. 23, 2011
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[Peh Shing Huei] Retired leaders’ vanishing act
Former premier Zhu Rongji’s new book detailing his years in office created a media stir and strong reader interest when it went on sale early this month.But the man himself was nowhere to be seen.There were no book tours and media interviews and Zhu, 83, did not make a public appearance to promote h
Sept. 23, 2011
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Israel-Palestine face-off at the United Nations
The looming United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood is not a cause for celebration ― for Palestinians or anyone else. It is merely further evidence of the utter stalemate of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which once promised to deliver a two-state solution but which during the last few
Sept. 22, 2011
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[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Countering the contagious West
NEWPORT BEACH ― Imagine for a moment that you are the chief policymaker in a successful emerging-market country. You are watching with legitimate concern (and a mixture of astonishment and anger) as Europe’s crippling debt crisis spreads and America’s dysfunctional politics leave it unable to revive
Sept. 22, 2011
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Strong countries, not Greece, should ditch euro
Europeans can’t say they weren’t warned. For a decade before the euro was launched, critics ― and many economists ― argued that one currency wouldn’t fit all, or even most, of the nations of the European Union. The unfolding euro-area crisis is proof that the critics were right. Now it’s up to the s
Sept. 22, 2011
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[Ron Klain] Middle-class Americans suffer in silence, for now
President Barack Obama’s proposed tax on millionaires has restored the issue of “class warfare” to the forefront of politics. The new tax plan follows a week of intense campaigning by the president for his jobs bill, and of considerable attention devoted to a Census Bureau finding that poverty rose
Sept. 22, 2011
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[Yang Sung-chul] Two beggars in classic tragedies
Even in this age of homo electronicus, the eternal question of love and hate or good and evil never ceases to lose its flame. One critical ingredient of a classic is to arouse in us such an emotion from the innermost depth of our heart.Filial ingratitude seems to be the overriding theme of both Soph
Sept. 22, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] Obama’s Middle East dilemma
As Palestinians head to the United Nations this week, President Obama faces one of the most excruciating dilemmas of his presidency, a predicament partly of his own making.After four decades of failed negotiations with Israel, Palestinians are hoping the U.N. will finally grant them a sovereign stat
Sept. 21, 2011
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[Noah Feldman] Abbas’ U.N. offensive might be a step toward peace
Just what is Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas thinking? At the new United Nations session, he has announced, the Palestinian National Authority will ask the Security Council to recognize Palestine as a state. The application will be dead on arrival: the U.S. has already said it will veto. Abbas, in
Sept. 21, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Mistrust among European banks
WASHINGTON ― Global financial markets depend on trust. So it wasn’t a good sign when Laurence Parisot, the head of the French business federation known as “Medef,” last month charged that reports about the weakness of French banks were an American plot. “There has been a kind of psychological warfar
Sept. 21, 2011
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[Glenn Hubbard] Short-term stimulus won’t help U.S. in the long run
Joblessness and sluggish growth are hampering the economic recovery and Barack Obama’s political standing. Raising taxes on the rich, as the president called for on Monday, isn’t going to turn things around. To get a sense of how severe the situation is, consider this: Bringing the unemployment rate
Sept. 21, 2011
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[Frida Ghitis] Waiting for revolution in Cuba, Burma, N.K.
For all the luxuries they enjoy, dictators live in a state of constant fear.Without the trust of their people they must always protect themselves against real, imagined, or even potential plots. They may be paranoid, but they’re right to be afraid. That’s true now more than ever.These are scary time
Sept. 21, 2011
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Move ahead on pipeline from Canada
It’s a boom time in the Canadian province of Alberta, where technological advances and sky-high commodity prices have turned the region’s oil sands into a sticky, tarry gold mine.Here’s a safe prediction: The United States will share in this bounty, one way or another. Canada will ship oil to its la
Sept. 20, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] Settlement of comfort women issue
“Much as we may feel for the plight of the (comfort women), the court of the United States simply is not authorized to hear their case.” That was the final sentence of the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Hwang Geum Joo et al. v. Japan issued in June 2005, which was
Sept. 20, 2011
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‘Contagion’ lurks just outside office bathroom
A terrible wave of germaphobia is spreading across the world, and all of it can be blamed on “Contagion,” the new thriller starring Matt Damon. “It really bothers me,” said a victim of the new germaphobia. “You don’t really know what it’s like.”Actually, I do. But it was never this bad, until now, t
Sept. 20, 2011
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[Reza Aslan] Yes to Palestine
Later this month, the Palestinian Authority intends to go before the United Nations to request recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Although there is strong backing for the bid, the United States, in the name of supporting Israel, has stated its willingness to use its Security Council ve
Sept. 20, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Americans learning from Asia
We learn from each other. We learn not only from our parents and teachers, but also from our children and students. As a father, I try to convey my experiences to my children whenever necessary, but at the same time, I often learn from them as well. And as a professor, I not only teach my students w
Sept. 20, 2011
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Tax reform may be the only deficit reduction plan
Last time we looked in on the congressional “supercommittee,” its members were preparing for a sober task: slashing future federal deficits by ― for openers ― more than a trillion dollars. Yet there was reason to hope this designated dozen really could roam the full realm of government spending and
Sept. 19, 2011
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[Zbigniew Brzezinski] Toward universal political culture
WASHINGTON ― A common challenge to all of us is inherent in the ongoing transformation of global politics.Let me begin with three broad assertions, then briefly elaborate on each of them, and conclude by making a modest proposal.― First, global peace is threatened not by utopian fanaticism, as was t
Sept. 19, 2011