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When schools closed last week due to the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, the kindergarten and day care that my two girls go to followed suit.  …

On June 15, the day marking the 15th anniversary of the historic summit between President Kim Dae-jung and North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, Pyongyang offered …

Singapore, which I’m visiting at the moment, opens your mind to the highly improbable. Rich, ethnically diverse, cheerfully efficient, globalized in the …

The National Assembly on Monday sent the National Assembly Law revision bill to President Park Geun-hye after making a change mediated by National Assembly …

Governments sometimes need to restructure their debts. Otherwise, a country’s economic and political stability may be threatened. But, in the absence of an …

India’s Raghuram Rajan is an outlier in Asia. Whereas other central bankers in the region are pumping ever-more air into asset bubbles ― New Zealand and …

Diagnosing Twitter’s problems has become an international pastime. I’ve engaged in it, as have far more informed and illustrious people, most recently and …

Perhaps we don’t have to worry about the rising sea levels as a result of climate change, after all. We can “outland” it by pouring sand on tiny islands …

During his phone talks with President Park Geun-hye last week, U.S. President Barack said he fully understood her decision to delay a visit to the U.S. to …

Rival parties have failed to keep the legal deadline for voting on the confirmation of Prime Minister-nominee Hwang Kyo-ahn. Under the law, Hwang’s …