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[Ana Palacio] Dealing with despotic temptation
[Ana Palacio] Dealing with despotic temptation

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, when asked about American support for the notorious Nicaraguan despot Anastasio Somoza, purportedly replied, “He may be …

[Editorial] Families held hostage

A major disruption of child care services was averted Wednesday, but families of some 775,000 children enrolled at privately run child care centers were …

[Editorial] Time for decisiveness

U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed within 12 nautical miles of at least one of the artificial islands in the South China Sea claimed by China on …

[Kim Hoo-ran] Bring out the hanbok from the bottom drawer
[Kim Hoo-ran] Bring out the hanbok from the bottom drawer

Driving through Gahoe-dong, that genteel neighborhood nestled between Gyeongbokgung Palace to the west and Changdeokgung Palace to the east, last weekend, I …

[Emil Guillermo] What do we know about Trump’s views of Asians? 

In the last general election, polling data showed that among Asian-Americans there was a good number of what I call GOPinoys. In other words, a right-ward …

[Kim Ji-hyun] Depression hits overseas community
[Kim Ji-hyun] Depression hits overseas community

A few years ago, the news of a suicide in Tokyo made its rounds in the Korean community here.The dead woman was the wife of a man who was dispatched by a …

[Kim Myong-sik] Park’s ill-conceived history textbook reform project
[Kim Myong-sik] Park’s ill-conceived history textbook reform project

In spring 2017, about a year before the end of her five-year term, President Park Geun-hye will take the first look at new Korean history textbooks for middle …

[David Ignatius] Can Xi Jinping control China’s wave of change?
[David Ignatius] Can Xi Jinping control China’s wave of change?

Some of the luxury boutiques along Des Voeux Road here seemed nearly empty of Chinese customers at times last weekend. With an anticorruption campaign raging …

[Editorial] Abused guarantees

Top financial regulators are stepping up pressure on creditor banks to push ahead with corporate restructuring. They are urging bank officials to weed out …

[Editorial] Trilateral summit

Korea, China and Japan will resume their long-stalled trilateral summit this weekend, starting to make joint efforts to normalize their frayed relations. …

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