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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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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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[Simon Johnson] Behind euro, a crisis unfolds in slow motion
Is the economic and financial situation in Western Europe largely under control, as many prominent Europeans contend? Or is it poised to move into a new and more difficult phase? The crisis feels unreal to some people in the same way that war felt phony to some Britons from September 1939 through sp
Aug. 29, 2011
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[David Ignatius] A rare look inside al-Qaida
WASHINGTON ― Government officials refer to it blandly as the “SSE,” or Sensitive Site Exploitation. That’s their oblique term for the extraordinary cache of evidence that was carried away from Osama bin Laden’s compound the night the al-Qaida leader was killed. With the anniversary of the Sept.
Aug. 28, 2011
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[Ramin Jahanbegloo] Syria, Iran will only change if people unite as in Libya
TORONTO ― When future generations look back, they will remember 2011 as the year of end of dictators in the Middle East and the Maghreb. Libya’s Muammar Gadhafi has now joined the Middle East parade of fallen despots. Practically nine months after Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was oust
Aug. 28, 2011
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[Gordon Brown] The eurozone’s cure should start with Germany
LONDON ― I can well understand the defiant mood in Germany today as it grapples with the crisis engulfing the eurozone. German anger is obvious and well founded.Over the last 10 years, while Spain, Ireland, Portugal and others partied on low interest rates, the German people cut their wages, endured
Aug. 28, 2011
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[Noah Charney] Art theft, from the ‘Mona Lisa’ to today
One hundred years ago, an Italian handyman named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the world’s most famous painting from the world’s most famous museum. Peruggia slipped out of a closet inside the Louvre in which he had hidden overnight, removed the “Mona Lisa” from the wall and retreated to a service stairca
Aug. 28, 2011
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[Malcolm Sparrow] An e-ripoff of the U.S.
A Los Angeles jury recently convicted a local pastor and his wife of fraudulently claiming $14.2 million from Medicare. The culprits recruited parishioners to help run fake durable medical equipment companies, and spent the proceeds on expensive cars and other luxuries. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gener
Aug. 28, 2011
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[Michael Broning] U.N.: Which Palestinian state?
JERUSALEM ― Israelis and Palestinians are preparing for a showdown at the United Nations in September, when the Palestinian leadership will ask for recognition of a Palestinian state within the borders that existed before the Six Day War in 1967 (when Israel seized control of Jordanian-occupied terr
Aug. 26, 2011
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[William Pesek] Banker suicides offer clues in a bellwether
If our world has any place that acts like a financial early warning system, it’s South Korea. With high short-term debt levels and little to cushion it from destabilizing global events, Korea is often the first of the top 15 economies to zig, zag or hit an economic wall. At the moment, events on the
Aug. 26, 2011
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[Martin Khor] Still in pursuit of full independence
The Merdeka (Independence) season is a good time to ponder over what independence means to Malaysia and the other developing countries that are still battling to overcome the disadvantages that the colonial era brought.The problems of governance in a developing country, 54 years after independence,
Aug. 26, 2011
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[Editorial] Put more pressure for change on the Burmese regime
U.N. human rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana arrived in Burma last Sunday for a five-day visit to assess the human rights situation in the country.Quintana, who was previously denied a visa to Burma after visiting there in February last year, is expected to meet with pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu K
Aug. 26, 2011
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[Editorial] China’s oil spill shame
The investigation, jointly organized by seven central government departments, into the oil spill involving ConocoPhillips China in Bohai Bay is long overdue given the continuing leaks and the uncooperative attitude from the subsidiary of the Houston-based U.S. energy giant. The State Oceanic Adminis
Aug. 26, 2011
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[Editorial] Maglev train project must serve national interests
Central Japan Railway Co.’s ongoing project to build a maglev train system linking Tokyo and Osaka is finally in full swing.Early this month, JR Tokai released a list of probable locations for intermediate stations in four prefectures ― Aichi excluded ― through which its envisaged magnetically levit
Aug. 26, 2011
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[Barak Barfi] Rebuilding Libya after Gadhafi
BENGHAZI ― Six months after Libyan rebels took up arms against the country’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Gadhafi, they have finally toppled him. But, while victorious on the battlefield, they have not been triumphant in political and economic terms. If the rebels are to ensure their revolution’s long-te
Aug. 25, 2011
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[Jeffrey Goldberg] As Sinai deteriorates, Israelis fear the worst
It wasn’t much noticed at the time, but this past winter, as some Egyptians flooded Tahrir Square to bring down a pharaoh, others were busy opening the gates of Cairo’s jails. Common criminals found their way to freedom, and so too did an unknown, but possibly substantial, number of hardened jihadis
Aug. 25, 2011
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[Howard Davies] Europe’s financial wasteland waiting for German action
PARIS ― “April is the cruelest month,” wrote T.S. Eliot at the beginning of his great poem, “The Waste Land.” But, if Eliot had been a professional investor who had observed European financial markets over the last few years, I am quite certain that his choice would have been August.In August 2007,
Aug. 25, 2011
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[Elena T. Reigadas] Legal or not, these students deserve a chance
It happened again this semester. A student came to my office and asked me to close the door. After going through this drill so many times before, I knew what would come next. In a process akin to “coming out of the closet,” these students reveal to me their terrible secret: They are undocumented imm
Aug. 25, 2011
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[Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney] College path: Expensive, but a smart investment
The 3 million Americans who graduated from high school last spring have had to grapple with a big decision: whether to continue with their educations this fall. In today’s economic climate, a growing number of families are questioning the value of higher education. Will an investment in college pay
Aug. 25, 2011
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[David Ignatius] An uncertain Arab transition
WASHINGTON ― U.S. intelligence analysts, like most American observers, have often referred to the process unfolding in the Middle East as the “Arab Spring,” with its implicit message of democratic rebirth and freedom. But some senior analysts are said to have argued for a more neutral term, such as
Aug. 24, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Super PACs line their coffers for 2012 battle
Mike Toomey, Bill Burton and Edward Conard: Each of these men is a close ally of one of the would-be next presidents of the United States. All three insist they have no involvement in their close associates’ campaigns. That’s because they’re helping direct so-called Super PACs ― Burton for President
Aug. 24, 2011
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[Yuriko Koike] The final days of Col. Gadhafi
BENGHAZI ― The endgame in the Libyan conflict has at last arrived. Much of Libya’s capital is now in insurgent hands, with the rebel army itself entering from all directions.The military impotence of forces loyal to Col. Muammar Gadhafi ― visible for a week ― had been matched by the regime’s growing
Aug. 24, 2011