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  [INTERVIEW] ​Vietnamese envoy calls for South Korea's wider market opening, technology transfer SEOUL -- Vietnamese Ambassador to South Korea Nguyen Vu Tung has suggested Asia's fourth-largest economy open its market wider to Vietnamese goods and promote technology transfer to help address the trade imbalance between the two countries. “The two sides attach greater importance to tackling the trade deficit issue. This involves greater access to the Korean market for Vietnamese goods,&rdqu 2023-03-08
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  McCarthy's turbulent start KARACHI -- Finally, after four days of grueling ballots that were laced with coercing, pleading, arm-twisting, bribing, and finger-jabbing, Kevin McCarthy was able to flip some 20 conservative holdouts to become 2023-01-11
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  [OPINION] ex-Japanese premier Abe faces criticism over unwanted Olympics SEOUL -- Just before the Olympic Games is about to kick off in Tokyo, users of a famous far-right online community criticized Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for ditching the idea of holding a "compact" global sports event to maximize its size by spending about $15.4 billion, which is more than double the initial estimate. The Olympic Games is definitely not an event that has been truly wanted. Polls showed that a majority of Japanese people wanted the extrava 2021-07-23