What Trump really gains by calling China a currency manipulator

The Trump administration’s designation of China as a currency manipulator may be more a symbolic move than a substantive one, but it is yet...

Cary Huang

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Opium addiction in Korea's past

William Franklin Sands, an American adviser to the Korean Government, posed in Korean clothing circa 1900s. By Robert Neff In 1892, rumors began to...

Robert Neff

10

Tlaib and Omar Make Things Clear About South Africa’s Successor

Two American lawmakers helped reveal the truth about Israel to their country and the world. Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar should be...

Gideon Levy

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Netanyahu Endangers Israel

The rudeness that the government under Benjamin Netanyahu showed congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar is second only to the damage it has...

Haaretz Editorial

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In Israel, a Bad Taste of Coercion by the Left

The director of Israeli reality chose to end the story of the concert in Afula in a very original and wise way. Both sides claimed victory. The...

Carolina Landsmann

8

The Many Humiliations of Sex Segregation

For a few years now I’ve been breaking all the secular-liberal-feminist laws and teaching women-only classes, on the sly. Why? Because I believe...

Iris Leal

7

How Israel Can Deter Iran

Hezbollah is said to have 130,000 rockets that could reach all of Israel, with Hamas possessing thousands of rockets that could cover southern and...

Benny Morris

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President Hernandez must end repression of protests in Honduras

For over a month, Eblin Noel Corea Maradiaga's family kept watch over his grave. They took shifts and even installed a light bulb above his...

Erika Guevara-Rosas

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New guidelines spell disaster for language skills in high schools

Japanese language education in Japan is the featured subject of recent issues of "Subaru" and "Bungakukai," both monthly literary magazines. Under...

Vox Populi

20

US-Turkey Showdown on Kurdish Security Zone

We have all been here before. Turkey has troops lined up on the Syrian northeast border and announced it will proceed alone with its incursion...

Jim Dean

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US Meddling Continues in Cambodia, But With Setbacks

Two Cambodian employees of US government-funded “Radio Free Asia” (RFA) face espionage charges for continuing to work for the foreign...

Joseph Thomas

20

China And the Zombies Of The Past

The hybrid war, being conducted against China by the United States and its gaggle of puppet states from the UK to Canada to Australia, has entered...

Christopher Black

30

The EU must respect the nation-state

The EU needs unity where such things as the single currency require it. But it also needs to have respect for the diversity of nation-states and...

Boris Kalnoky

10

What some people would do for wood

Korean children and oxen with wood, circa 1903 By Robert Neff The life of a wood merchant in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was not easy....

Robert Neff

10

New rules of e-commerce: Live-streaming in the spotlight

To grow e-commerce sales, Mogu introduced a new live-streaming sales service. Courtesy of Mogu By Victoria Kim The spread of smartphones has had a...

Victoria Kim

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Hepatitis in Asia: we must find the missing millions

Globally more than 290 million men, women and children are unaware that they are infected with viral hepatitis. Gettyimagesbank By Jack Wallace...

Jack Wallace

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What legacy do Japan, South Korea want to leave for future?

This summer saw Japan and South Korea mired in a toxic political conflict with no apparent way out in sight. As if the poisonous air between Tokyo...

Editorial

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Carrie Lam can defuse the Hong Kong protests by taking on the property tycoons

There is no question that Hong Kong has messed up big time. But a cloud of questions hangs over how to defuse the city’s biggest political crisis...

Wang Xiangwei

100

Hong Kong is in India, Kashmir is in China. Right?

Returning to Hong Kong this time held a special attraction. It may sound like an odd thing to say now, what with the eventual flight cancellations...

Debasish Roy Chowdhury

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The colonial roots of Africa's corruption problem

Late last month, the Senegalese government made it clear it was not going to cave in to pressure to revise state energy contracts. This was despite...

Amy Niang

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Labour’s fabricated anti-Semitism crisis is a threat to free speech

UK MP Chris Williamson has begun legal action against Labour, the British political party which has suspended his membership. The treatment of...

Asa Winstanley

20

You’re better at choosing a pet than a spouse

NEW YORK – Bad decisions are certainly a scourge — up there with bad luck as a factor blamed for debt, loveless marriages, general misery and...

Faye Flam

10

Arcibiskupi a satanisti z Visegrádu

Na počiatku bolo slovo. Čo slovo! Celá kázeň krakovského arcibiskupa. Homosexuálov označil za dúhový mor. V snahe obraňovať...

Martin Krno

10

Trump moving to make immigration whiter, wealthier

The Trump administration is on a course to remake the face of immigration in America in ways that would turn it whiter and wealthier. It is a...

Japan Today

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The Kashmir Issue and the Annulment of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution

Cancellation on August 5 this year of the fundamental provisions of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution became one of the most important recent...

Vladimir Terehov

20

South Korea - it takes a long time to become young

In 1973, a military officer forcibly cuts a young man's hair in the street. Park created the Minor Offences Act to legalize the abuse of power....

Amanda Price

10

Korea-Japan Relations Plunge: Japan Strikes Again

The trade war between Japan and South Korea caused by the decision of Seoul to ignore the results of the 1965 Agreement is reaching a new level. As...

Konstantin Asmolov

10

Election Shenanigans

The findings of the investigative report that Haaretz published this week raise fears about the integrity of Israel’s elections. The picture that...

Haaretz Editorial

20

Australia dilutes Pacific leaders’ climate warning

PACIFIC leaders warned the world faces a climate crisis Friday but complained their message on global warming had been "watered down" at...

Asian Correspondent

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Leaders should always express ‘deep remorse’ for the war

Emperor Naruhito, in his first appearance as the holder of the Chrysanthemum Throne at an annual memorial service for the war dead held each Aug....

Editorial

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(BRANJE) Od rudnika do maminega bloga

Pravijo, da svetovni splet obstaja zaradi dveh stvari: zaradi seksa in teorij zarot. Kot vsaka ironija je tudi ta izjava po eni strani pretirana,...

Boštjan Narat

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If a Global Recession Is Coming, It Will Be Trump’s to Own

If you take Donald Trump’s tweets at face value, then all is well with the U.S. economy -- or it would be if it weren’t for his “clueless”...

David Rosenberg

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Labor-Gesher Candidate Embodies Bid to Unify Israel's Left and Mizrahim

Although this election campaign has men and former generals leading the major parties again, the main worldviews before the voters will embodied by...

Avi Shilon

20

Facing same issues, Japan, S. Korea should help each other

This summer, I started noticing people walking around with mini handheld fans, which have become trending items this year in Japan. As I understand...