Hang on Until Midnight

If no candidate for prime minister manages to win the support of 61 legislators by midnight Wednesday, the 22nd Knesset will be dissolved and the...

Haaretz Editorial

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Why sell on e-commerce?

GETTYIMAGEBANK This is the second in a series chronicling the trial-and-error journey of a momtrepreneur who juggles the thrills of running a...

Jane Han

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Haaretz Cartoon

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Eran Wolkowski

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Bear encounter at Niigata clinic shows unsettling shift in habitat

“The Three Bears,” an illustrated fairy tale written by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), is about a girl who stumbles across a cottage while trying to...

Vox Populi

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Under new boss, NHK ought to reassess mission to viewing public

Terunobu Maeda, a former chairman of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., will take over from Ryoichi Ueda as president of Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK)...

Editorial

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Asia must rethink its cities to make the most of urbanization

Detailed maps, better transport and affordable homes are vital for growth

Rana Hasan

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US and Japan should make limited trade pact more ambitious

American tariffs on Japanese auto exports need to be eliminated

Nikkei Editorial

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What Daewoo founder left

Kim Woo-choong is gone, but deserves praise for challenge spirit Daewoo Group founder Kim Woo-choong, who played a leading role in Korea's rags-to-...

Editorial

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Anti-Semitism: the thorn in the UK Labour Party

Analysis. The core issue we are facing is, once again, the ambiguity—sometimes tolerated, at other times maliciously exploited—between...

Leonardo Clausi

Il Manifesto Global

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Don't Mess With the Army, Bennett

The army and the defense establishment are very angry with Defense Minister Naftali Bennett. The man makes too many pronouncements, boasts about...

Zvi Barel

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Democrats wrong on big-tech solutions

By Christopher Koopman From Elizabeth Warren to Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic presidential candidates have come out strong for breaking up big...

Christopher Koopman

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Season for phony outrage and made-up controversies

By Rich Manieri Thanks in large part to social media, and in equally large part to the mean-spirited discourse of the day, virtually anything can...

Rich Manieri

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India’s lower house passes contentious nationality bill

India's lower house passed controversial legislation early Tuesday that will grant citizenship to religious minorities from neighbouring countries,...

Asian Correspondent Staff

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High stakes: Myanmar’s Lady gambles image in Rohingya genocide lawsuit

From democracy champion to defending Myanmar against genocide charges, the shock decision by civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to face the UN's top...

Asian Correspondent Staff

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Recovery disk a good tool to retrieve deleted sakura party list

A Japanese newspaper reporter's morning can start with "asamawari," which is journalism jargon for "making the morning rounds." This involves...

Vox Populi

10

Afghanistan: Taliban deal?

By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS ― President Donald Trump put Afghanistan back in the news again after his surprise Thanksgiving visit to U.S....

John J. Metzler

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Fix unfair trade-war farm bailouts

Washington is one of America's most trade-reliant states, so President Donald Trump's ongoing trade negotiations have brought broad economic...

Tribune Service

10

Why countries should tax global income

By Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE ― If you are a citizen of a country, should you pay taxes on the income you earn only within that country's...

Ricardo Hausmann

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Trump cripples WTO

Concerns grows about vegetated referee of global trade disputes Twenty-four years after its birth as the global arbitrator of trade disputes, the...

Cartoon

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Female frontliners upend Hong Kong gender stereotypes

Chris Wong has transformed from a quiet student who used to blush when friends swore into one of the thousands of female frontliners battling...

Asian Correspondent Staff

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Trump cripples WTO

Concerns grows about vegetated referee of global trade disputes Twenty-four years after its birth as the global arbitrator of trade disputes, the...

Editorial

10

Good luck to Rep. Shim

New LKP floor leader should pursue new politics The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) has elected five-term lawmaker Shim Jae-chul, a...

Editorial

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Arrogance of Abe administration marred Diet sessions in 2019

During the past two months, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration has avoided Diet debate on some important policy issues, showing little...

Editorial

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Stop with the gifting and just give

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Considering an expensive gift this season for someone you love? CNBC urges you to be careful: “What to think about before...

Stephen L. Carter

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Countering Beijing’s South China Sea strategy

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) possesses overwhelming military capabilities in the South China Sea. And it is clear that no single...

Yoji Koda

10

UNRWA must operate alongside a collective effort to help Palestinians achieve their political rights

December 8, 1949 marked the establishment of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Despite the recent...

Ramona Wadi

10

A New Hope for US Climate Action

BOULDER, COLORADO – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) currently taking place in Madrid is supposed to prepare the ground for...

Jules Kortenhorst

10

Only force to contain China is Beijing

By Tom Plate American foreign policy rarely rises to the level of coherence recommended by its policy intellectuals and thoughtful diplomats....

Tom Plate

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Putin and the ‘Biden Memorial Pipeline’ to China

In early 2014 Washington staged a blatant coup d’etat in Ukraine breaking the historic relationship with Russia and setting the stage for the...

F. William Engdahl

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West Seeks Control Over Asian Rivers

At first glance the human rights and environmental issues surrounding a proposed dam seem like serious objections to their construction. In some...

Tony Cartalucci

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The decline of media freedom in Pakistan - A journalist tells his story

The last two years have seen a rapid decline in media freedom in Pakistan. Senior journalists say the national media is witnessing one of the...

Shahzeb Jillani

10

In B'Tselem, We Believed the Israeli Public Needs to Know

Tuesday is International Human Rights Day, and at the Einav Culture Center in Tel Aviv there will be an evening marking the 30th anniversary of...

Zehava Galon

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Tackling Inequality from the Middle

CAMBRIDGE – Inequality looms larger on policymakers’ agenda today than it has in a long time. With the political and social backlash against...

Dani Rodrik

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Rapidly aging populations need financial security, not just caregivers

Society can focus too much on work and ill health

Theodora Lau

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Trump Drops Bomb, Media Ignores

As his impeachment moved forward, in a morning press conference in London this week, Donald Trump mentioned casually that he and Vladimir Putin are...

Deena Stryker

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Musk's defamation win may reset legal landscape for social media

Elon Musk's daring has left its mark on electric cars and rockets, and now experts say the entrepreneur may have reshaped U.S. defamation law with...

Japan Today

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Israel Is on Its Way to Become a Country of City-states

After the public transportation system began operating on the weekend in a number of cities in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, we began to hear the...