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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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In Peru, two weak choices for next presidency
Peru’s political system has been ailing for decades. Corruption, violence and deep economic inequalities have left it weakened. Now, the first round of voting in the presidential race, which took place Sunday, threatens to leave the country in critical condition.From a field of five candidates, two emerged as front-runners likely to move on to a runoff election June 5. Both appear wanting in exper
April 19, 2011
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[William Pesek] China may tell Geithner to get lost
Timothy Geithner says borrowing more from China to finance tax cuts for the most affluent Americans would be irresponsible.The Treasury secretary has it backward. The real question is whether Beijing is willing to double down on a nation whose balance sheet makes Italy look good. Holding $1.2 trillion of U.S. debt is a fast-growing risk to China.Traders have a theory about why the euro is reasonab
April 19, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] Royal books come home after 145 years
Although no official ceremony was held, the wave of exultation covered the entire country when Asiana Airlines’ B777 touched down at Incheon Airport last Thursday. What emerged from the cargo section was the first batch of the 297 Royal Ceremonial Books, taken by the French military from a royal library in 1866, marking a historic return after 145 years. The books were taken from Ganghwa Island, a
April 19, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Brzezinski says Obama gets China, flunks Israel
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a fan of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, with important caveats. He supports most of the policies of the past three months in the turbulent Middle East, thinks the president has improved relations with the Europeans and the Russians, and believes the summit meeting in January between Obama and President Hu Jintao of China was a success. At the same time, he faults t
April 19, 2011
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[Kavi Chongkittavorn] Burma seeks to head ASEAN in 2014
Can Burma have its cake and eat it too? The answer rests with ASEAN. Right after the new civilian government was installed at the end of March in Naypyidaw, one of the first important tasks President Thein Sein did was to submit a letter to the ASEAN Secretariat stating Burma’s readiness to take up the grouping’s chair in 2014.At the 11th summit meeting in Vientiane in November 2004, under pressur
April 19, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Where is Korea’s Allen Ginsberg?
Allen Ginsberg, who passed away in April 1997, once wrote a defiant poem entitled, “Capitol Air,” which begins: “I don’t like the government where I live.”I met him in 1981 in Buffalo, New York, where he read ― actually performed ― the poem to music on stage. The celebrated poet, who heralded the Beat Generation with his monumental poem “Howl” in 1956, fascinated the audience by reading his newly
April 19, 2011
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Help disaster victims find the jobs they want
As one month has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, moves to provide employment assistance to victims of the disaster are spreading nationwide.Companies in the railway, video game, food, medicine and financial service sectors, among others, have come out with job offers for victims of the March 11 catastrophe. About 170 corporations have posted job offers with an online employment infor
April 18, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] Drawing budget battle lines
In case it wasn’t clear already, we now know what the 2012 election will be about: how fast to cut federal spending, whether to raise taxes and what to do about healthcare, especially Medicare.President Obama’s awkwardly named “deficit reduction framework,” unveiled Wednesday, has the usual list of flaws of any long-term budget proposal. It doesn’t tie up every loose end. It includes a couple of “
April 18, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Obama’s new national security team
WASHINGTON ― Economists theorize about an optimal position on the “welfare curve” ― a balance that, if changed, will make things worse. President Obama may feel the same way as he contemplates the coming round of changes to his national security team. By accident or design, Obama has assembled a roster of officials in key positions who work well together and perform their roles effectively. Most o
April 18, 2011
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[Nicole Gelinas] China moves to stifle economic speech too
In the week and a half since the Chinese government detained artist Ai Weiwei on suspicion of “economic crimes,” Western governments and the global arts community have condemned China’s repression of free speech. Regular Americans, too, should care about China’s habit of stifling information that it doesn’t like to hear. China is applying the same habit to another type of speech, economic speech.
April 18, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Why Sarah Palin doesn’t get what she deserves
OK, so Sarah Palin probably isn’t running for president. She may have told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren that she was “tempted” because she was “wondering who the heck is going to be out there with a servant’s heart willing to serve the American people.” But evidence suggests there’s not a lot to wonder about when it comes to her candidacy.Palin’s approval ratings have never been lower. A CNN poll
April 18, 2011
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[Peter Singer] Bringing a universal digital public library within reach
MELBOURNE ― Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books held by five major research libraries. Suddenly, the library of utopia seemed within reach.Indeed, a digital universal library would be even better than any earlier thinker could have imagined, because e
April 18, 2011
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Have a real U.S. federal budget debate
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget is the first sensible, long-term fiscal blueprint to come out of Congress in decades. You could say it’s a budget of the grownups, by the grownups, for the grownups.As such, it deserves what even President Obama says is needed, an “adult conversation” on the country’s financial health.Not that there hasn’t already been comment on Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity.” House
April 17, 2011
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Should there be a ‘fat tax’ in the United States?
If an individual’s body mass index isn’t a purely personal matter, what is? We have the right to choose between healthy food or junk food, even if the latter is more likely to result in obesity and related health problems. But once our choices affect others, there’s a natural conflict between individual freedom and social responsibility. In a nation where rising health-care costs and diminished ac
April 17, 2011
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[Shashi Tharoor] Cricket and caution: India-Pakistan ties
NEW DELHI ― India-Pakistan relations ― a challenge at the best of times, and in the doldrums since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai of November 2008 ― received an unexpected boost last month from an unlikely source: cricket. When the two countries became semi-finalists in the game’s quadrennial World Cup, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited his Pakistani counterpart, Yusuf Reza Gilani, to
April 17, 2011
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[Glenn Garvin] Bay of Pigs offers lessons for Libya adventure
Rarely has the fog of war settled so quickly or as thickly as it has around President Obama’s Libyan adventure. Remember how the president promised military operations would last “days, not weeks”? That was nearly a month ago ― and now Obama’s advisers are being coy about whether the White House intends to comply with the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which sets a 60-day limit on military actions wi
April 17, 2011
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[Jonathan Alter] Republican horror movie sequel hits theaters
Republicans jumped all over President Barack Obama’s budget speech at George Washington University as political, and they are absolutely right.It was the old Obama, the one who changed history in 2008, and he is back on his game, both thematically and tactically. The domestic debate now is much clearer and the takeaway for Republicans is out of a horror movie: Be afraid. Be very afraid.Obama was e
April 17, 2011
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[Heather Grabbe and Kori Udovicki] A roadmap to improve the lives of Roma in Europe
BRUSSELS ― The European Union, at long last, is taking a significant step to improve the lives of Europe’s millions of Roma. Rather than proposing a grand plan for EU-level action, the European Commission’s recently released “EU framework for national Roma integration strategies up to 2020” calls on each member state to write its own plan.This approach recognizes that the most pressing needs of th
April 17, 2011
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Focus deficit-cutting efforts on bigger targets
The recent Sturm und Drang in Washington over a possible government shutdown was just a warm-up act for the more significant budget disputes to come this year. Rather than haggling over a few billions of dollars in spending, the debate over the budget for the next fiscal year will involve trillions of dollars worth of deficits and debt. And soon after Congress adopts a budget, it will have to deci
April 15, 2011
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What now, after the rise in radiation rating?
Risk assessments have see-sawed between hopeful and grim, but never dire, in the month since the Fukushima nuclear complex began leaking radiation. The Japanese authorities’ caution showed how variable the nature of determining radioactive contamination was, as well as a wish to not overload the senses of a people coping with the earthquake-tsunami devastation. But it has been hard to keep the fai
April 15, 2011