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MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS ― As the latest G-20 meeting of finance ministers starts in Cairns, Australia, the Legion of Gloom is at it again. Their conventional …

The health of Korean men is at great risk. So found a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on the health and nutrition of Koreans in 2013 …

Korea’s rice market will open fully to foreign imports starting next year, ending 20 years of rice import caps. On Thursday the government announced that it …

There is no question that Aminta Cifuentes’ marriage was not just bad but a threat to her life. Her husband beat her regularly. He burned her breast with …

President Park Geun-hye plans to attend a global climate summit in New York next Tuesday, a day before delivering a keynote speech at the U.N. General …

The 17th Asian Games kicks off in the western port city of Incheon on Friday for a 16-day run with the attendance of about 14,500 athletes and delegates from …

While recently commemorating the World War I centenary at an Italian military cemetery, Pope Francis declared: “Even today, after the second failure of …

The risk of what Nobel laureate Paul Krugman calls “Japanification” ― a semipermanent economic funk ― has haunted China for at least a couple of years …

The old Chinese description of experiencing a perilous phase as “living in interesting times” is familiar enough. So is the expectation that doing so opens …

Eighty-three years ago on Sept. 18, a Japanese Kwangtung Army lieutenant placed dynamite at a small section of Liutiaohu on the South Manchurian Railroad, …