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The World Bank has a timely warning for Chinese President Xi Jinping: Don’t let all that money go to your head. The global lender didn’t refer directly to …

In 1983, the American economist and Nobel laureate Wassily Leontief made what was then a startling prediction. Machines, he said, are likely to replace human …

National police arrested this week a low-ranking government official on charges of taking kickbacks from car importers while issuing environmental certificates …

The Sung Woan-jong bribery scandal has exposed many dark sides of Korean society ― pervasive corrupt links between politics and business, elections being …

Lee Jay-yong, the de facto leader of Samsung Group, offered a public apology last month for Samsung Medical Center’s mishandling of the outbreak of Middle …

Chinese sayings are hot these days. The United States Supreme Court, in its ruling on same-sex marriage, cited Confucius. And at the opening of the U.S.-China …

For years, the G7 nations have pledged substantial governance reforms in international multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund, the …

The more children you have, the more likely you’ll be poor: That was the grim slogan of a national birth-control campaign more than four decades ago. It was …

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised an important question on whether the current security-related bills would allow Japan to protect U.S. military …

Rarely, if ever, in American history has a president spoken more personally, emotionally or candidly than Barack Obama these past three weeks. Almost as though …