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East Asia
Taiwanese Protest Against Policies Of China-Friendly President Ma In Taipei
Taiwanese women wear wedding dress and hold slogan reading “No money to marry. Super indignation!” in protest against the polices of Taiwan’s China-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators took to the streets of Taipei in the largest anti-government action…
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61-year-old former lawmaker to become oldest legal trainee
A 61-year-old former lawmaker will become the oldest trainee to join the training required for those who passed the state-run bar exam after the military government in the 1980s disqualified him from it. Chung Chin-sup, once a two-term lawmaker of the ruling Saenuri Party, will begin a two-year training course…
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East Asia
Will the US Pivot Trigger a New Regional Arms Race?
*Author, Richard A. Bitzinger is Senior Fellow with the Military Transformations Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Formerly with the RAND Corp. and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, he has been writing on Asian defense and military issues for more…
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Big firms toe line on Park’s pro-labor calls
Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor and Ssangyong Motor are toeing the line set by President-elect Park Geun-hye regarding labor relations. Samsung has recently proposed to hold negotiations with an advocacy group representing families of employees who died from what it says were industry-induced diseases. On Thursday, Ssangyong Motor agreed to reinstate…
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Chinese envoy backs Park’s NK approach
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said Friday he supported President-elect Park Geun-hye’s “trust building” approach to Pyongyang, calling it a “very good idea.” “The chronic disease with regard to issues of the Korean Peninsula is a lack of trust,” Zhang said during a forum for businesspeople. “When you are…
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Downbeat mood at Cheong Wa Dae
The presidential transition team has become the “it” beat among reporters these days as power shifts from outgoing President Lee Myung-bak to incoming President Park Geun-hye. The lively, hectic atmosphere at the Korea Banking Institute (KBI), where the transition team is based, stands in stark contrast to the bleak and depressing…
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East Asia
New Year Decorations Put Up In Street Of Suzhou City, East China
Citizens walk past the New Year decorations in Suzhou City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 10, 2013. Tourists pose for photos in front of the New Year decorations in shape of snake in Suzhou City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 10, 2013. The lunar year 2013 is the “Year of…
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China’s One-Child Policy Seen To Change Chinese Society Significantly
A parent takes photos of her daughter playing the drums at a children’s play area in a shopping mall in Beijing Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. In China, a law generally limits urban families to having just one child. They grow up as the sole focus of doting parents. How does…
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East Asia
Junior Lee plays key role in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS ― Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jay-yong, the only son of company head Lee Kun-hee, is stepping up efforts to earn his stripes as the next leader of the technology giant. His latest stage was the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where he was seen actively engaging…
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East Asia
With the people
What is a good slogan for the new government to be led by Park Geun-hye, who will be inaugurated as president on Feb. 25? I suggest that it should be “With the people” in English and in Korean “국민과 같이.” The suggestion comes from my interest in Abraham Lincoln, the…
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