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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

China’s Risky Endgame in Hong Kong

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Although the rapid escalation of violence in Hong Kong seems terrifying enough, things may be about to get much worse....

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...

Missing the Big Picture on Poverty Reduction

ANN ARBOR – This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for their...

Behind Trump-Erdogan ‘bromance,’ a White House meeting to repair US-Turkey ties

At the 2012 opening of Trump Towers in Istanbul, real estate mogul Donald Trump sang the praises of Tayyip Erdogan, telling a mostly Turkish...

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...

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...

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...

Israel’s precision propaganda tries to justify the slaughter of innocents

The seriously misnamed Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and its supporters get very upset when members of the fifth largest army in the world are...

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...

Israel has kidnapped a Palestinian socialist and is torturing her 

Khalida Jarrar is a leading Palestinian activist for women’s rights and prisoners’ rights. She is a socialist MP elected to the Palestinian...

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...

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...

Hamas Is, for Now, the Only Responsible Adult in the Israel-Gaza Conflict

Most Gazans weren’t familiar with the name Bahaa Abu Al-Ata until Israel talked him up as the mastermind behind occasional Islamic Jihad...

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...

Russian to the wrong conclusions? UK ‘liberal-leftists’ dancing to the Browder/Clinton tune

For a long while we were told that Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-war UK Labour leader, and his left-wing Director of Communications Seumas Milne, were...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

Global Trade’s Bright (Green) Future

PARIS – Most discussions of trade nowadays inevitably feature the words “war,” “tariff,” or “Trump.” But look beyond the headlines and...

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...

(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...

(BRANJE) O gospe, ki jo je zlomila oblast

Najprej ji je bilo povedano, da bodo vse njene težave rešene. Nekaj let kasneje se tudi sama ni več mogla spomniti, katerega dne je to bilo, ostal...

Hong Kong's risk of 'total collapse' pushes economy deeper into the red

Protests have grown more violent and are now affecting daily business

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...

Whilst 18 Israelis are treated for anxiety, 22 Palestinians are taken to the mortuary

The extrajudicial killing of Bahaa Abu Al-Ata of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, the second largest faction in the Gaza Strip, has triggered...

SoftBank must draw the right lessons from WeWork losses

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...

'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...

'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...

Tesla's Germany plans are no coincidence

In typical Elon Musk style, he almost casually announced plans to build the European Tesla factory on the outskirts of Berlin. For German carmakers...

Rozdelená Amerika

Predchádzajúci prezident Barack Obama rozbehol svoju kariéru v júli 2004 prejavom na nominačnom zjazde demokratov. Vo svojej reči hovoril aj...

What China and the Koreas can learn from German reunification

Even though the current situation in Asia differs fundamentally from that of Europe in 1989-90, three basic rules should apply to every process of...

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...

Chronic Pain

Attitude alone cannot cure a chronic illness or chronic pain. Positive attitude and certain self-management skills can make it much easier to live...

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...