Lawmakers of the National Assembly’s Legislation and Judiciary Committee have drawn ire from listed companies by requiring them to hire at least one “compliance support officer” starting April next y...evised Commercial Code defines a compliance support officer as a legal expert who helps the company’s management abide by the law and reports any legal breach to its board of directors. The lawmakers...

Life satisfaction ― commonly known as happiness ― is what it’s all about. What makes us happy is another matter altogether. The adage that money can’t buy happiness, it turns out, is mostly wrong. I...ss index. After having been “the country of the future and always will be,” Brazil is now the world’s seventh largest economy, has markedly reduced poverty and expanded the middle class, all thanks to...

Did President Obama break the law when he ordered U.S. planes to bomb Moammar Gadhafi’s forces in Libya? Some critics think so. But as with all discussions of the wartime powers of Congress and the president, the law is less clear than partisans would like to admit. The principal legal argument against Obama is that he should have obtained a declaration of war or its equivalent from Congress. Bu...

...ume production because their factories are located in the area surrounding Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which was crippled by the disaster. The interruption of Japa... such a situation drags on for a long time, it will have an adverse effect on the recovery of Japan’s economy. It is also feared that foreign firms may switch from Japan to other countries as their pa...

Just tell the government to back off and all will be fine. That’s what former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems to say in “Activism,” an article published in the Spring issue of Internat...the downside and firms will bear the upside.” Anat Admati of Stanford University, along with a Who’s Who of top finance professors, has written about the need for more capital throughout the financia...

... is instructive. Anyone who wants to fix Washington needs to start with an understanding of Diamond’s case. Since his initial nomination, Diamond has been twice approved by the Senate Banking Committ...e nomination until the next session. That means any one senator can scuttle the nomination. Diamond’s name was sent back to the White House. President Barack Obama reissued the nomination in Septembe...

...rked out, a statement from the home secretaries said. No details were given about the level of access India would have in probing the attacks, in which 10 militants from Pakistan laid siege to India’s financial capital in November 2008, killing 166 people. Pakistani Interior Secretary Qamar uz Zaman and Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai “reiterated their commitment to fight terrorism in all its ...

... to formally annex West Bank territory would be a precedent-setting move that could increase Israel’s already considerable international isolation. The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and east... he added, speaking on condition of anonymity because no final decisions have been made. Netanyahu’s office had no comment. Nimr Hamad, an aide to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said “these thr...

...ternational governing body of football, along with German journalists and politicians, will travel to North Korea this week as part of their tours to participating countries at an international women’s tournament in the European nation this summer. The German Football Association announced Tuesday that Theo Zwanziger, its president and a member of FIFA’s Executive Committee, and Steffi Jones, head of the organizing committee for the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, will head the delegation to Pyongyang from Thursday to Sunday. They will meet North Korea...

...a, the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company and the Korean Symphony Orchestra. The practice hall is located at the outdoor concert venue of the Seoul Arts Center in southern Seoul. The building’s construction began in January, 2009 and was completed in February this year. The hall has nine studios for opera, ballet, choir, contemporary dance and orchestral music. “State-run arts companies h...