The Digital Money Revolution

LONDON – How radically will digital currencies change our methods of exchange and the way that we think about money? With innovation in digital...

Alibaba's Singles Day e-commerce extravaganza has lessons for Amazon

Chinese company uses games and livestreams to attract record revenue

ILVA: the death of the ‘at all costs’ production model

Commentary. There were decades of near-daily complaints, which all fell on deaf ears. Decades in which everyone profited on the backs of the...

Hong Kongers recreate protests with homemade virtual video game

A group of Hong Kong activists have developed a homemade computer game that uses virtual reality to recreate what it is like to take part in pro-...

Indonesia must speak up against China on Uygurs. Look at what Gambia did for the Rohingya

On October 15, US Ambassador to Indonesia Joseph R. Donovan Jnr visited one of the country’s largest Muslim organisations, Muhammadiyah, urging...

China holding third Taiwanese man on security grounds: state media

Beijing is investigating a Taiwanese man on suspicion of engaging in activities that endanger national security, Chinese state media reported...

Zero in Security

Israel woke up Tuesday morning to the sound of a rocket-siren alarm clock. A week before the expiration of Benny Gantz’s mandate to form a...

One dead, six injured in suspected suicide bombing at Indonesia police station

A suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in Indonesia has left at least one attacker dead and six other people wounded, authorities...

Even at sakura parties, Abe’s close friends get special treatment

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must answer questions if he wants to clear the growing suspicions that he has used taxpayer-funded Cabinet events to...

Promise of 1989 has faded

By Andrew Hammond Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an epochal moment in international relations. Yet, some...

Sanchez tried to make Podemos go away. He miscalculated.

Commentary. The Spanish Socialists now find themselves in a Parliament almost identical to the previous one, but with the extreme right of Vox...

(BRANJE) Macronova izdaja Balkana

Od padca Berlinskega zidu pred 30 leti so zahodni voditelji vztrajno trdili, da na evropski celini ni težave, ki je ne bi bilo mogoče rešiti v...

Hooray for Israeli Strategic Surgery

A short memory test: Who can name the head of the army’s southern or northern command, right off the top of their head, without Googling. In an...

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At party under cherry trees, Abe and company set their own rules

I searched for them on the Internet again and again, but they were nowhere to be found. I am referring to blogs by prefectural assembly members and...

Curb chaebol's expansion

Conglomerates should no longer engage in unfair practices Owner families of large business groups or chaebol that adopted a holding company system...

Sale of Asiana Airlines

Win-win strategy needed to hone competiveness Asiana Airlines is likely to find a new owner after a consortium led by construction firm HDC Hyundai...

Cheap power the key to AI-based business

KIZUGAWA, KYOTO PREF. – It is considered inevitable that demand for electric power will increase dramatically as artificial intelligence replaces...

North Korea goes permanently nuclear — does it matter?

HONOLULU – North Korea’s possession of an arsenal of nuclear-armed missiles increasingly looks permanent. The U.S. government will continue to...

The Growing Threat of Water Wars

NEW DELHI – The dangers of environmental pollution receive a lot of attention nowadays, particularly in the developing world, and with good...

Israel’s war on Islamic Jihad

Israel launched two attacks simultaneously on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad yesterday, one targeting Bahaa Abu Al-Ata — a senior commander of its...

Future of 'dreamers' in Supreme Court's hand

No matter how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the three consolidated immigration cases heard Tuesday, the fact that the Deferred Action For...

China's cutting-edge technology looms large

By Trudy Rubin BEIJING _ One of the first things I learned on my current trip to Beijing is that foreigners are marooned if they don't have a...

'Koreans don't get it either'

By Charles K. Park Charles K. Park In "Americans just don't get it" (11/8/2019), Korea Times columnist Oh Young-jin notes the recent slew of...

Global rage boils over

By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS ― From Hong Kong to Barcelona, and from Beirut to Bolivia and Chile, a global rage seems to be boiling over. It...

'Buying' US troops

By Eugene Lee Recently a furor broke out in the media about Korea's payment for the stationing of U.S. troops in South Korea. And as I've been...

SoftBank must draw the right lessons from WeWork losses

The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Social Democracy

CAMBRIDGE – It was already clear 30 years ago that the fall of the Berlin Wall would change everything. But precisely what that change will mean...

Building a Lasting Peace in Yemen by Getting Ahead of the Generational Gap

While Yemen remains locked in a grand political dispute, its people bound by the competing ambitions of various factions and militias as they each...