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YouTuber fatally stabbed on livestream by another YouTuber in Busan
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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Yoon rebuffs opposition's call for special probe into wife
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Stray Kids hit with racism in Met Gala photo line
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Ador CEO's dismissal to be decided on last day of May
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[News Analysis] Yoon's first 2 years marked by intense confrontations, lack of leadership
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[Graphic News] Beer the most favored alcoholic drink by Koreans
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Yoon doubles down on repeal of financial investment income tax
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Science Ministry expresses regret over Japan’s pressure on Naver
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Suzy, Park Bo-gum star in AI fantasy romance ‘Wonderland’
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[Meghan Daum] Princess Kate: Her royal blandness
I admit it: I love Kate Middleton. I love that she defied the usual dating advice and waited years for her prince to come around. I love that she’s a commoner but still wears those outrageous feathered hats. Most of all, I love that the hats are the most remarkable thing about her.Pretty without being distractingly gorgeous, fashionable without pushing boundaries, reserved without being shy, Cathe
May 1, 2011
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[William Pesek] If Bill Gross sees U.S. as shaky, check Japan
Salvador Dali or M.C. Escher? This question leaps to the mind navigating the ruins of Japanese cities like Tagajo. Skylines now look as if Dali’s surrealist brush had a hand in rendering things so out of place. Escher’s mind seems at work, too. Interlocking shapes that shouldn’t exist in the three-dimensional world litter cityscapes that before March 11’s earthquake and tsunami were pretty run of
May 1, 2011
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[Yoon Young-kwan] Can East Asians cooperate for regional community?
SEOUL ― As China continues its unremitting rise, people throughout East Asia are wondering whether their states will ever be able to achieve the peaceful, stable relations that now characterize Europe. Given the regularity of serious diplomatic spats ― over everything from tiny atolls in the South China Sea to the legacy of World War II ― this may sound like an elusive dream. But, with nationalism
May 1, 2011
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Syrian president shoots democracy advocates
When pro-democracy protesters began rallying a few weeks ago, Syrian President Bashar Assad set out to change their tune. He has succeeded, though not quite as he hoped.At the beginning, demonstrators wanted the longtime dictator to embrace political reform, and he made some gestures in that direction, such as lifting a 48-year-old state of emergency law. Now, they don’t want him to embrace reform
April 29, 2011
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Greenhouse gases: Too hot for the courts
Despite the rants of some conservative politicians and fringe scientists, it’s a fact that greenhouse gases produced by human activity contribute to global warming. Last week the Supreme Court considered one way that such emissions might be controlled: through a huge and unwieldy lawsuit brought by California and five other states against five power companies and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Se
April 29, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] Breaking point in Libya
Like most wars, NATO’s five-week-old campaign to overthrow Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi has turned out to be harder than it looked.The leaders of Britain, France and the United States, who launched the intervention, initially hoped Gadhafi’s regime would collapse quickly ― toppled either by popular uprisings or, more likely, by dissident generals.But that hasn’t happened, at least not yet.Instead, Gadh
April 29, 2011
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[David Ignatius] White House ‘political guy’ in hot seat
WASHINGTON ― Tom Donilon, President Obama’s national security adviser, has a reputation as a “process guy,” meaning that he runs an orderly decision-making system at the National Security Council, and as a “political guy” with a feel for Capitol Hill and the media. Now, facing the rolling crisis of the Arab Spring, Donilon has had to transform himself into the ultimate “policy guy” ― coordinating
April 29, 2011
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[Editorial] Anticorruption commission under attack
With the war on terrorism far from over, Indonesia has seen mounting attacks on corruption fighters, despite the nationwide acceptance that graft is an extraordinary crime, separate from terrorism. A plan by the House of Representatives to revise Law No. 30/2002 on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is widely seen as the latest foray intended to weaken the anticorruption drive.Sadly, the
April 29, 2011
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[Editorial] Diplomatic sport
Such is the Indian and Pakistani leadership’s obsession with high-profile “event-oriented” diplomacy that they sought to exploit the craze for cricket to revitalize people-to-people contact without taking two realities into consideration. One, that the cricketing calendar was overcrowded, the players so heavily committed, that squeezing in even a short bilateral series was virtually impossible; tw
April 29, 2011
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[Editorial] Spectacle to the rescue of old institutions
The coming royal wedding in England and the beatification of Pope John Paul II in Rome will afford the world a chance to see how two ancient institutions ― the monarchy and the papacy ― reinforce their claim to perpetuity and continuing relevance by a show of pomp and pageantry. Supposed to be historical rivals, especially considering their religious wars since the 16th century, these two institut
April 29, 2011
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Moving beyond clash over human rights
Human rights are always a sensitive issue in Sino-U.S. relations and the latest Sino-U.S. human rights dialogue that began on Wednesday is likely to demonstrate this once again. With the dialogue resuming after a period of interruption and the ups and downs that have characterized recent Sino-U.S. relations, it is important to review the contact and communication between the two powers on human ri
April 29, 2011
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Japan’s economy feels the effects of quake
The government in its monthly report released in mid-April downgraded its basic assessment of the Japanese economy for the first time in six months. It said the March 11 catastrophe is causing downward pressure on exports, production and consumption.Although there is a view that the economy will start to pick up around July, partly assisted by increased demand linked to reconstruction projects, th
April 28, 2011
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Cuba needs to adapt to economic realities
Last week, Cuban President Raul Castro endorsed sweeping economic reforms, proposed term limits for government and Communist Party officials, and conceded that the party’s failure to groom a new generation of leaders will make it harder to find a successor.The proposed reforms could usher in major changes. For the first time since the 1959 revolution, the government would allow Cubans to own and s
April 28, 2011
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[Tim Rutten] In Libya, ‘mission creep’ sets in
In the think-tank argot popular in foreign policy circles, “mission creep” is an idiom for one of the garden-variety mistakes most people were warned against at their mother’s knee. Think “don’t throw good money after bad” and you’ve pretty well got the essence of the thing.Predictably, though, mission creep is what’s occurring in Libya. Each halting step the United States and its NATO allies take
April 28, 2011
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[Yuliya Tymoshenko] Meaning of the Chernobyl meltdown
KIEV ― It began as a grey and muddy spring day, like so many others in my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning.Of course, none of us knew the precise moment when catastrophe struck at Chernobyl 25 years ago. Back then, we lived under a system that denied ordinary people any right whatsoever to know about even essential facts and events. So we were kept in the dark about the radiation leaking f
April 28, 2011
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Hoping the message and works of author are not tarnished
I’ve long been an admirer of Greg Mortenson, the author of the phenomenal best-seller “Three Cups of Tea.” The book tells how he began building girls’ schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan after making a pledge to the villagers of Korphe, who had rescued him from a failed attempt to summit the world’s second-highest peak, K-2.To see his work, I traveled with Greg in 2007 to visit schools he’d built
April 28, 2011
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[Edward Wasserman] Lawsuit exposes musty values of Internet economy
In 1991 a lawsuit filed by a freelance journalist was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the New York Times owed money to independent writers it had published for reselling their work from its archives. This was a big deal ― in theory, anyway.In fact, all it did was force publishers to get their lawyers to write bulletproof waivers for freelancers to sign. That waiver is a thing o
April 28, 2011
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[Andrew Sheng] The flawed global monetary system
In 1944, the historic meeting on the international monetary system was held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The British delegation was led by Lord Keynes, the foremost economic thinker of his day. The U.S. delegation was effectively led by Treasury adviser Harry Dexter White. Even though all the Allies attended the meeting, including China and India, it was essentially a debate between the declin
April 28, 2011
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[Editorial] Pressure for talks
Pressure is mounting on South Korea to resume dialogue with North Korea and withdraw opposition to resuming denuclearization talks in the absence of Pyongyang’s apology for its earlier unprovoked hostilities. As Winston Churchill famously said, jaw-jaw is always better than war-war. But what if the North Korean communists do not abandon the idea of war-war while in talks?North Korea has been knock
April 27, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] War between the whites 150 years ago
The fourth-grade teacher in Virginia who performed a mock slave auction in her classroom April 1 ― with the white kids pretending to buy and sell the black kids ― was duly chastised by school officials for her racial insensitivity. Given that she meant to be giving a lesson on the Civil War, she should also have been scolded for pedagogical inaccuracy.Think about it. If she really wanted to have h
April 27, 2011