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PARIS ― On June 6, the Central Intelligence Agency joined the social media platform Twitter with its first tweet: “We can neither confirm nor deny that …
![[Yu Kun-ha] Korea ready for spirited fight in World Cup](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/20140615000385_01.jpg "[Yu Kun-ha] Korea ready for spirited fight in World Cup")
The world is gripped by soccer fever with the World Cup underway in Brazil. During the next few weeks, about half of the world’s population will be riveted …
As one can sense from all the news about mergers and acquisitions lately, these deals are booming again worldwide. What’s new this time is that markets are …
What kind of culture produced those two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls charged with stabbing a classmate 19 times? Our culture. The 12-year-olds were charged as …
Marking World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the World Health Organization set out the goals of its campaign for 2014: Prompting governments to increase taxes on …
The political hostility that peaked during the recent local elections is heating up again over President Park Geun-hye’s nomination of a conservative former …
Sour grapes are in season in Tokyo as Shinzo Abe’s predecessor steps up and slams the prime minister’s tax plans. But beneath the bad feelings and twinge …
![[Robert Reich] Punish corporate wrongdoers](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/20140613001390_01.jpg "[Robert Reich] Punish corporate wrongdoers")
General Motors has fired 15 employees after an internal investigation into the company’s handling of defective ignition switches that lead to at least 13 …
The Defense Ministry’s plan to give extra credits to college students for military service has stirred up a controversy. Under the envisioned scheme, which …
Korean women are the most educated in the world. With the country having the highest college entrance rate in the 34-member Organization for Economic …