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Sun, March 29, 2020 | 22:19
Editorial
Despite the government's strengthened “social distancing” measures, the new coronavirus is showing few signs of abatin...
North Korea launched what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, Sunday, about a week ...
Thoughts of the Times
Since thoughts are duty-free, I would like to share with you a few of my opinions about what is going on now in the world in which it seem...
The coronavirus has been causing unprecedented changes to organizational cultures. Many corporations have chosen to have their employees a...
China Watcher
Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from which it seems there is n...
Today in History

1814-Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon

1856-Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1858-Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)

1867-U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000

1895-British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge

1925-Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians

1945-289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark, Dortmund

1953-Einstein announces revised unified field theory

1970-Miles Davis Bitches Brew released

1972-North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam

1976-Israel kills six Palestinians protesting land confiscation

1981-U.S. President Reagan shot and wounded by John W. Hinckley Jr.

1993-Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election

Columns
Jason Lim
That's supposedly the number of men who paid “Baksa” meaning a Ph.D., up to $1,200 in cryptocurrency to receive a link that would take the...
Chang Se-moon
Right or wrong, numerous lawsuits will be filed in many countries affected severely by COVID-19, once the health issues from the virus are...
COVID-19 is ravaging advanced economies such as Italy, France, Spain, and the United States. Beyond the deaths and human suffering, market...
I got an email from the ACLU the other day. I have absolutely no idea how I got on their mailing list, since I've written column after col...
I am an information junkie. I admit it. Turning down an offering of freshly picked information is hard for me. Stopping myself from indulg...
Blogs
The recent revelations of a series of privately operated digital chat rooms in which teenagers and young women were operated as “slaves” f...
The Korean yangban (aristocrat) was a popular subject to write about for Westerners living in Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centur...
In the late 19th century, traveling the streets of Seoul was an adventure. The streets were filled with savage Korean ponies biting and ki...
I found this message scrawled on a single sheet of paper and crammed in a bottle that washed up on the coast. I present it to you for your...
Cartoons
Coronavirus stimulus
Even longer unemployment line
Tribune Service
China's announcement on March 17 that it will expel at least 13 American journalists with the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal will hurt ...
On Monday, President Donald Trump made clear he's itching to lift the coronavirus restrictions that have locked down the economy.His angst...
Historically, it takes a war to postpone or cancel the modern Olympic Games. Since 1896, there have been three cancellations - the 1916 Berlin games (World War I); and ...
Civilization implies the acknowledgement that many challenges can be met only by cooperation and the pooling of resources. Locally, this i...
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