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If we were to judge the state of the world by the news headlines, 2015 was the year of Islamist terror, especially in Paris. It began with the massacre at …

In marking the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community on Dec. 31, Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha missed the point in urging Thais to stay alert to new …

President Park Geun-hye is apparently upping the ante in her hardball politics. The launch of a new anticorruption drive and the threat of legal action against …

The Park Geun-hye administration has been reluctant to raise taxes on the corporate sector. Its policy might have been an urgent choice when it came to …

Once again the world has seen – through its fourth nuclear bomb test – how unpredictable North Korea is and how difficult it is to rein in the rogue state. …

A new source of global uncertainty has emerged surrounding crude oil prices in the aftermath of increased friction between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Most global …

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending a concert boasting a roster of top-tier Korean celebrities. Among them were FT Island and CNBLUE, two of …

Developments here and in Japan following the Korea-Japan accord on the settlement of the “comfort women” issue late last year allow little hope that the …

The rapidly escalating conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, sparked by the execution of a Saudi Shiite activist, may seem like the natural outgrowth of a …

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” — Ernest Hemingway Leilen Shelton, a middle school teacher in …