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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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Information glitch for bullet-train operation
The suspension of all bullet train service Jan. 17 on JR East’s five shinkansen lines ― Tohoku, Akita, Yamagata, Joetsu and Nagano shinkansen lines ― reminds railways and any organization, for that matter, of the importance of sharing important information among personnel concerned and designing a computer system that can flexibly cope with changing situations. At 8:23 a.m. on that day, a screen o
Jan. 31, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] Old order finally ending in Mideast
For years, many Middle Easterners have operated on the premise that things could continue as in the past. Arab autocrats assumed they could rule forever, and many Israelis thought they could occupy forever.President George W. Bush tried to explode the status quo by imposing democracy on Iraq from above, but we’ve seen where that led.As of this month, we are entering a new era ― for Arabs and Israe
Jan. 31, 2011
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[Steven Hill] China’s baby steps for democracy
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― During the state visit to the United States of Chinese President Hu Jintao, President Barack Obama pressed Hu on human rights. He probably should have asked more about spreading democracy in China, because he might have been surprised by what he heard.In September 2010, Hu gave a speech in Hong Kong in which he called for new thinking about Chinese democracy. He said, “There is
Jan. 31, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] ‘Skins’ MTV episodes pass an ick test
Even if you haven’t watched MTV since Duran Duran broke up, you’ve probably heard of “Skins.” It premiered on Jan. 17 amid a fanfare of anticipation after the Parents Television Council pronounced it “the most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children.”The council has demanded a federal investigation as to whether the young actors on the show (ages 15 to 19) are participating i
Jan. 31, 2011
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[Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich] States should have option of bankruptcy protection
During the 2008 financial crisis, the federal government reacted in a frantic, ad-hoc fashion, tapping taxpayers for bailouts galore, running roughshod over the rights of bondholders and catching the American people unaware and unprepared. In contrast, we still have time to prepare for the looming crisis threatening to engulf California, Illinois, New York and other state governments.The new Congr
Jan. 31, 2011
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[Kavi Chongkittavorn] Can withering Taiwan engage ASEAN?
The mood in Taipei today is of concern and anxiety. Why? The Taiwanese lai bai xing (commoners) feel quite strongly that the world’s soon-to-be largest economy will eventually usurp up their island, known as Taiwan. Indeed, some even believe that growing economic dependency on the mainland is a kiss of death which they cannot avoid. Tourists, brides, students, agricultural and manufactured product
Jan. 31, 2011
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Stuxnet signals start of new kind of arms race
The tale of the Stuxnet worm is one of those seemingly good-news stories that grows more worrisome over time.Security experts first became aware of the mysterious Stuxnet malware last summer, but it wasn’t until months later that they agreed on its likely target: Iran’s secretive nuclear weapons program. The worm hid itself benignly in personal computers, spreading (often through USB drives) until
Jan. 30, 2011
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[James M. Banner Jr.] Amendment rooted in past failures
There’s a move afoot to give the states the authority to repeal measures enacted by Congress and signed by the president. It’s a bad idea. It’s also dishonorable.The measure, led by Republican Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah and taking the form of a proposed amendment to the Constitution, would allow the dis-enactment of “any provision of law or regulation” upon the vote of two-thirds of the state legisla
Jan. 30, 2011
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[DAVID IGNATIUS] Keeping a guarded eye on Arab revolt
DAVOS, Switzerland ― It’s a sign of the times that some Arab journalists attending the gathering of international power brokers here were spending their free time scanning Twitter messages about political protests back home. It’s that kind of moment in the Arab world, when people are nervous about anything that is connected to the status quo. The unrest that toppled a government in Tunisia has spr
Jan. 30, 2011
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[Yves Mersch] Seeking to prevent the euro’s next crisis
LUXEMBOURG ― Much dedication and energy are currently being devoted to institutionalizing a crisis-management mechanism for the euro area. This is a good and important goal. But a far more significant challenge ― largely covered in the accompanying debate ― is the need for crisis prevention.At the European Union’s pre-Christmas summit, European heads of state and government agreed in principle to
Jan. 30, 2011
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[Bogdan Kipling] Intrusive screenings are necessary for our overall safety
WASHINGTON ― Just like children forced to take castor oil hated the experience, millions of Americans loathed the intrusive body-scan and pat-down security measures imposed at U.S. airports last fall.Surprisingly, though, the revulsion period was briefer than first assumed as travelers realized the added security rules may, after all, be good for them.The real question is, of course, how much safe
Jan. 30, 2011
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[Robert B. Reich] The sorry state of U.S. economic union
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the president talked at length about the economy. What he failed to point out is that America now has two economies, and only one of them is recovering.The recovering economy is on Wall Street and in large corporations. Profits are soaring. Big companies are sitting on a trillion dollars of cash. People with lots of financial assets, or who are deem
Jan. 30, 2011
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Letting states default on debts is bankrupt idea
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is apparently trying to burnish his credentials in the race for the GOP presidential nomination by encouraging states to default on their debts. Gingrich is the leading cheerleader for the idea of letting states declare bankruptcy to evade problems with unfunded public employee pensions and other benefits for future retirees. Those problems are real, but letting
Jan. 28, 2011
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Obama moves another few degrees to the right
President Barack Obama had been readying himself for Tuesday night’s State of the Union address since the Nov. 2 election, the electorate’s repudiation of big government and big spending. Obama had to respond to what he admitted was a “shellacking.” So he agreed to extend President George W. Bush’s tax cuts, recruited centrist Democrat William Daley of Chicago as his chief of staff and, on Friday,
Jan. 28, 2011
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[Li Wei] Better to be friends than foes
China and Japan should seek strategic trust to capitalize on the mutual benefits offered by further cooperation Last year was a difficult one for Sino-Japanese relations. The strategic framework in East Asia developed two increasingly distinct features ― China’s peaceful rise and the United States’ “return to Asia” ― that, to a large extent, led to a shift in the Democratic Party of Japan’s China
Jan. 28, 2011
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[Dominique Moisi] Can an Arab spring be far away?
PARIS ― Is Tunisia the first Arab authoritarian domino to fall? Or is it a unique case that should not be viewed as a precedent for either the Arab world in general or the Maghreb in particular? The region’s dictators have sought to dismiss the “Jasmine Revolution,” but the spark that started in Tunisia could spread ― perhaps in a matter of months or years ― to the entire Arab world.Indeed, the wa
Jan. 28, 2011
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[Editorial] Slowly but surely, ease Okinawa’s burden
Slow but steady efforts must be made to reduce the burden shouldered by residents of Okinawa Prefecture in hosting U.S. military bases there, a task that needs to be fulfilled to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station in the prefecture.On Tuesday, the national and prefectural governments held another round of talks on policy issues related to U.S. bases. At a section meeting on how to
Jan. 28, 2011
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[Editorial] Isolated Thai PM may still survive dual attacks
Thailand is enjoying a break from political upheaval, but with reds and yellows both calling for the prime minister’s head, how long will this fragile peace last?Thailand’s Democrat Party is looking strangely isolated. For the first time in its term, the largest party in the coalition government is facing back-to-back protests by the red and yellow shirts. To add to that, the ongoing tussle over c
Jan. 28, 2011
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[Kavi Chongkittavorn] Let us bet on ASEAN’s bid for the 2030 World Cup
ASEAN’s planned bid for the World Cup in 2030 has already become one of the biggest news items of its 43-year-old history. It has already generated a tsunami-like hype and public interest at all levels within the region of 600 million football-obsessed population. Malaysia has been tasked to prepare a detailed proposal for the bid which will be presented to ASEAN leaders for a final decision durin
Jan. 28, 2011
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Judicial arrogance mars Chicago election
With startling arrogance and audaciously twisted reasoning, two appellate judges ignored more than 100 years of legal precedent, invented a new definition of “residency” and ordered Rahm Emanuel off the Feb. 22 mayoral ballot.With the election just four weeks away, the appellate panel voted 2-1 to reverse the decisions of the Chicago Board of Elections and a Circuit Court judge. It’s an adventurou
Jan. 27, 2011