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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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North Korea fires several short-range ballistic missiles into sea: JCS
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Samsung, SK hynix investors dump shares on Nvidia crash
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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[Nicolas Moore] Sub-par English education in Korea: Root of the problem
The symptoms of sub-par English education are often discussed in the pages of this paper, but I’ve yet to read an accurate description of the cause. The cause of the lack of quality teachers is simply government interference in the marketplace, and specifically the preposterous restrictions, and poisonous regulations discouraging native English speakers from coming to Korea to teach, produce, and
May 16, 2011
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[Dick Polman] Meet new Newt as presidential hopeful
When I first heard that Newt Gingrich was mapping a Republican presidential bid ― he formally announced Wednesday ― I recalled what conservative Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said recently about the guy. It sure wasn’t pretty.Coburn was a Newt soldier back in the 1990s, when Newt was riding high as House speaker and conservative Pied Piper. Nevertheless, Coburn told C-SPAN in March that “having served
May 16, 2011
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[Mai Yamani] Bin Laden’s ghost in the Middle East
LONDON ― Osama bin Laden’s death in his Pakistani hiding place is like the removal of a tumor from the Muslim world. But aggressive follow-up therapy will be required to prevent the remaining al-Qaida cells from metastasizing by acquiring more adherents who believe in violence to achieve the “purification” and empowerment of Islam.Fortunately, bin Laden’s death comes at the very moment when much o
May 16, 2011
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A necessary ultimatum on cutting federal debt
Let’s call it Boehner’s Law: When you issue an ultimatum, make sure that whatever you’re threatening really is ... the ultimate. In that spirit, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says Republicans need to see trillions of dollars in spending cuts in exchange for letting the Obama administration raise the nation’s debt limit.Hair-on-fire Democrats react that it’s perilous to delay upping the debt
May 15, 2011
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[Tim Rutten] They drank the tea
If congressional negotiators fail to resolve their impasse over the federal debt ceiling, we may recall this moment in history as one of the nation’s worst since the morning Custer awoke thinking it might be amusing to go and annoy Sitting Bull.Ensuring the U.S. government’s full faith and credit is a matter of such consequence to the global financial system that everything else concerning the bud
May 15, 2011
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[Robert Reich] Big U.S. oil companies’ money gusher
ExxonMobil’s first-quarter earnings of $10.7 billion are up 69 percent from last year. Other oil companies are also scoring record gains. The five biggest oil companies together report more than $35 billion in profits.This gusher is an embarrassment for an industry seeking to keep its $4 billion annual tax subsidy from the U.S. government. It’s especially embarrassing at a time when Americans are
May 15, 2011
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[Fakhruddin Ahmed] Yunus’ place in history is secure
The Bangladesh Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s verdict that professor Yunus’s removal from Grameen Bank is legal. So professor Yunus has been permanently removed as the managing director of his brainchild, Grameen Bank. This is a sad day for Bangladesh. The decision will embolden those who had always opposed professor Yunus, such as the religious fundamentalists and others opposed to wom
May 15, 2011
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[William Pesek] China’s economic colonization starts down under
All in.That’s essentially the message Treasurer Wayne Swan is sending about Australia’s odds-defying bet on Chinese growth. The government’s latest budget pledges to deliver the quickest improvement in the nation’s finances on record ― without specifics about how that will happen.The absence of such detail is telling and can be boiled down to one thing: an even bigger gamble on China’s 10 percent
May 15, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] Long live airport security checks!
So Osama bin Laden’s dead. Now what? Things are going to change, but not in the way you might think.First off, the rest of the world isn’t going to fall over itself about this. Americans might be concerned about the collective yawn coming from Europe, but they really shouldn’t read too much into it. Europe just has a better historical perspective on these things. European leaders have been fightin
May 15, 2011
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Internet data collection: The privacy line
Apple introduced its Macintosh computer in 1984 with a now-famous Super Bowl commercial that showed a lone rebel striking out against Big Brother. So it was ironic that researchers recently accused the company of an Orwellian intrusion into consumer privacy: Its iPhones and iPads appeared to be tracking their users’ movements. Apple eventually offered a rebuttal, and it hustled out a software upda
May 13, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] For Americans, to infinity and beyond
President Obama tried to use the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden to get Americans to think big again. The successful end of a 10-year manhunt, he declared last week, was a “testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.”But bin Laden’s death instead seemed to feed stubborn domestic divisions and conjure thorny geopolitical stalemates. Maybe the
May 13, 2011
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[Dr. Noeleen Heyzer] Ending poverty in Asia-Pacific’s LDCs
For the people of Asia’s least developed countries ― the 14 poorest Asian countries and Pacific small island states ― the past decade was marked by multiple global economic crises and setbacks that prevented governments in each of the countries from succeeding in bringing their people out of extreme poverty. Despite some progress since 2001, the international development agenda for these neediest
May 13, 2011
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Pakistan and the U.S. need to work together
The language was a bit murky at first but inevitably the true nature of Pakistan-U.S. relations began to unravel. Immediately after the reported death of Bin Laden, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari would only speak in general terms about military and intelligence cooperation between the two countries, and would not go into specifics about the operation ― specifics that Islamabad didn’t have in
May 13, 2011
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Legal assistance for disaster victims
“I can’t repay loans for my house and fishing boat, which were swept away by the tsunami.”“I was fired by my company immediately after the disaster.”Day after day, these and other complaints are heard during legal consultations for people in areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.Local lawyers associations have generously given counsel at evacuation centers and elsewhere. So have
May 13, 2011
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Pakistan’s proxy war against India
The involvement of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate in the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai will be publicly aired in Chicago on May 16 when the trial of Hussain Rana of Pakistani origin, owner of an immigration consulting firm, begins. Six Americans were among 166 people killed in the Mumbai attacks. Though the 33-page charge-sheet does not mention ISI, it names Major Iqbal of the
May 13, 2011
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[Maria A. Ressa] Spreading jihadi virus in Southeast Asia
Osama bin Laden’s death is a moral victory, but it may turn out to be nothing more than that.Over the past decade, he has been isolated and the capabilities of his al-Qaida degraded, but the group has evolved into a social movement that continues to attract new groups and new recruits.Studies on social networks of al-Qaida and its Southeast Asian arm, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), show that both organiza
May 13, 2011
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A dead Osama ― and what matters to whom
The security relationship between the United States and Pakistan is at risk of breaking down over the Osama bin Laden case. The U.S. would be disadvantaged in its Afghanistan withdrawal timetable and federal budget pruning if a rupture happened. Pakistan could as penance be made to take a cut in the $3 billion annual military aid it receives, but it will probably manage. Just how bad the relations
May 12, 2011
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Spending on luxury brands soaring in China
Our country has become a shining beacon of hope for luxury brands as Chinese consumers are driving the growth in many luxury sectors.As the luster of luxury fades in Japan, luxury brands are expanding their presence and retail locations in China.McKinsey & Co. estimates that the country’s luxury spending will more than double by 2015. If so, we will surpass Japan to become the world’s largest mark
May 12, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Bin Laden plot thickens in Pakistan
WASHINGTON ― The Pakistani town of Abbottabad seems to have been the perfect place to “hide in plain sight.” Not only did officers at the Pakistani military academy there apparently miss spotting Osama bin Laden. So did a team of U.S. Special Forces trainers that, according to Pakistani officials, was based there from September to December 2008. The “Where’s Waldo?” aspect of the hunt for bin Lade
May 12, 2011
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Make drug use pay its own way
In a far-off land called I’m Right, You’re Wrong, a fierce drug-legalization debate is raging. Half the people, libertarians, say drug use should be legal. The other half, moral purists, insist it shouldn’t.They disagree even on what to call it when those who buy or sell drugs are led off to jail. The libertarians call this a form of taxation ― specifically, a tax on the time of the buyer and sell
May 12, 2011