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Bolstering Human Rights: A Brick in the Road
Last month, Amnesty International released their annual 2014/15 report on the state of the world’s human rights.…
Resistance Is Futile: Prominent Putin Critic Gunned Down…
In the past year, from its annexation of Crimea to its contentious role as host of the 2014 Winter Olympics in…
One law for the Rich and Another for the Poor?
A common rhetoric that says that “If Steve Jobs was born in Korea, Apple would not have been existed,”…
The Happiness Survey speaks for the South Korean…
20% of children have once felt the pulse to run away from home and 10% have had suicidal thoughts: a shocking…
Weekly Roundup: Problem Solved?
With today’s news reaching from Xinjiang to Iran, there was no doubt that the MIR Online writers would take us…
Threat of Lame Duck Looms over South Korea
Whereas the year 2015 marks the 70th year of Korea’s independence, the citizens’ faith in the nation’s government…
Moving forward… and back again: India’s slow…
While the fight for legalization of same-sex marriage continues in most of the United States and other nations,…
South Korea’s Unhealthy Democracy: Regionalism
Introduction
Even 28 years after South Korea's free presidential elections in 1987, South Korean democracy…
“On the Verge of Freedom of Expression and…
A former lawmaker of the United Progressive Party (UPP) Lee Seok Ki’s sabotage plan against the government in…
Les Maldives : le tourisme financier des extrêmes
Inutile de commencer cet article par une description paradisiaque des Maldives. Tout le monde connait ce…
Why can’t Japan join the Chinese ‘New Silk…
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member states. APEC seeks to promote…
Dying Dreams of Korean Unification
On July 23rd, 1953, little over three years after the Korean War was started by North Korea's surprise attack,…