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SOUTH KOREA – Chaebol reform still an uphill battle after Lee Kun-hee (Juliette Schwak, East Asia Forum)

Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee passed away on 25 October this year. Hailed for transforming Samsung from a producer of cheap manufactured products into South...

USA/ROK – Resetting US–ROK security cooperation under Biden (Anthony Rinna, East Asia Forum)

Wasting no time outlining its position on the US Indo-Pacific alliance network, the incoming Biden administration has asserted that it plans to place renewed emphasis on...

EGYPT – Egypt releases rights activists after global pressure (Al Jazeera)

Egypt released three staff members of a leading human rights organisation following a concerted international campaign to free them – including concern expressed by...

UN/YEMEN – UN sounds ‘wake-up call’ to save millions of Yemenis from famine (Al Jazeera)

The window to prevent a famine in war-torn Yemen is narrowing, with a new study showing that millions of people in the country will...

IRAN/ISRAEL – Iran accuses West of backing Israel on scientist assassination (Barbara Bibbo, Al Jazeera)

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Israel of killing its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh amid the silence and complicity of the...

BAHRAIN/ISRAEL/OCCUPIED WEST BANK – Bahrain open to imports from illegal Israeli settlements (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain’s imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from illegal settlements in occupied territory, the...

USA/IRAQ – US ‘withdrawing some Baghdad embassy staff’ amid regional tension (Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera)

The United States embassy in Baghdad is withdrawing some of its staff ahead of the first anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian...

AUSTRALIA/AFGHANISTAN – Australian war crimes and racist fantasies in Afghanistan (Sahar Ghumkhor, Al Jazeera)

Last week the distressing details of a four-year inquiry into the Australian Defence Force’s war crimes in Afghanistan were finally released to the public....

EUROPE – European financial integration during the COVID-19 crisis: Insights from a new indicator (Stefano Borgioli, Carl-Wolfram Horn, Urszula Kochanska, Philippe Molitor, Francesco Paolo...

COVID-19 represents an unprecedented shock in terms of the scale and speed of its effects. On 30 January, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19...

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