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BOK vacancy adds deadlock risk to inflation war

Mar 31, 2011

The longest vacancy on the Bank of Korea’s monetary board since 1998 raises the risk of policy deadlock as officials struggle to tame inflation while maintaining growth. The seat held by Park Bong-h...rest rate to 3 percent from a record-low 2 percent in four moves since Park’s departure. The nation’s currency, the won, has climbed against the dollar this year partly because of rising rates. At le...
KORES to launch nickel production at Madagascar mine

IndustryMar 31, 2011

...ld start production at a nickel mine in Madagascar this year, which is expected to push the country’s self-sufficiency rate for the mineral to over 60 percent. KORES and consortium partners including...ounts for 25 percent of the nation’s annual nickel consumption. The project will boost the country’s self-reliance rate of the mineral that is vital to the nation’s major industries, from current 36....
Mahindra says committed to long-term stake in Ssangyong

IndustryMar 31, 2011

...elling any of its stake in Ssangyong Motor Co. in the near future, and will fully support Ssangyong’s revival, Mahindra and Mahindra vice chairman Arnand Mahindra said Thursday. Speaking at a press c... of oil-rich nations, Ssangyong has much potential for growth in the region. Regarding the company’s plans for smaller vehicles, Ssangyong’s new chief executive Lee Yoo-il said that while such plans ...
S&P cuts Nokia debt rating for first time

World BusinessMar 31, 2011

Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, had its debt rating cut for the first time by Standard & Poor’s, which cited market share losses and “weaker” operating margins at the Finnish c...-term rating was lowered one step to “A-” with a stable outlook, S&P said in a statement Wednesday. S&P has since June 1998 ranked the debt “A,” the sixth-highest of 10 investment grades. Moody’s Inve...
Toyota Motor may lose 500,000 units

World BusinessMar 31, 2011

Toyota Motor Corp. may delay the production of at least 500,000 vehicles in Japan because of a shortage of parts and electricity after the nation’s record earthquake, said an analyst at Advanced Research Japan. Toyota’s operating profit may be hurt by at least 100 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in the fiscal year ending Thursday and up to 200 billion yen next fiscal year, said Koji Endo, an auto ana...
Obama sets ambitious goal to cut oil imports

IndustryMar 31, 2011

Reviving elusive target, Obama calls for one-third reduction in U.S. oil imports by 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a one-third reduction in U.S. oil imports by...es up. Obama acknowledged that he’s far from the first U.S. president who has set out to put the U.S. on a path toward energy independence. Richard Nixon made the case for energy independence in 1973...
NASA probe on mission to unlock Mercury’s secrets

World NewsMar 31, 2011

...f Mercury as their MESSENGER probe began a year-long mission to map the surface of the solar system’s least-understood planet. After a 7.9-billion-kilometer journey that took six-and-a-half years, th...Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft finally entered the planet’s orbit on March 17. MESSENGER could unlock the secrets of a planet where temperatures reach a mind...
China’s military to seek more foreign exchanges

World NewsMar 31, 2011

...r military bragging rights. Strained relations between the two militaries improved slightly when U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited China in January. That follows a particularly rocky 2010 ... irritation with U.S. support for Taiwan. Beijing regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and said U.S. sales of armaments to the island were “severely impeding Sino-U.S. relations and impairing the pe...
Tseng returns to defend Kraft Nabisco title

GolfMar 31, 2011

...that traditional plunge and swam all the way to the world No. 1 ranking after winning the LPGA Tour’s first major of the year at Mission Hills in 2010. “I feel really excited to come back, especially...by Tseng, who’s less than nine months older than the former teen prodigy from Hawaii. “I think she’s really improved over the last couple of years, and she’s a good player,” Wie said. “It’s pretty am...
G20 highlights conflicts over currency

IndustryMar 31, 2011

Group’s talks in China focus on monetary reforms, as players clash on currency, other issues NANJING, China (AP) ― Conflicts over exchange rate policy surfaced Thursday at talks by finance mandarins...ommentary reiterating Beijing’s complaints over U.S. stimulus policies and global reliance on the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency. “The U.S. Federal Reserve acts without any constrain...
Google co-founder’s mom gives cells

PeopleMar 31, 2011

Cells donated by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s mother are helping the search for a cure of Parkinson’s disease. According to San Jose Mercury News, a Silicon Valley daily, there have been no witne...inson’s patient Genia Brin and watching them sicken and perish. The feat, documented in this month’s issue of the journal Cell by Stanford’s Renee Reijo Pera, could make it possible for the first tim...
Irvine Mayor Kang gets honorary Ph.D.

PeopleMar 31, 2011

Irvine City Mayor Kang Suk-hee, the first Korean-American mayor of a major U.S. city, will receive an honorary doctoral degree in business management from Dongseo University. The Busan-based school said that the degree recognizes Kang’s devotion to the economic growth and educational development of Irvine City in California as well as his achievements in raising the status of Korean-Americans. ...
Six high school students receive IELTS scholarship

PeopleMar 31, 2011

The Korea Herald, the British Council Korea and IDP Education awarded scholarships to six Korean high school students Wednesday under their joint program to help students prepare to study in the U.S. through IELTS. IELTS, or International English Language Testing System, is the world’s leading test of English for higher education, recognized by schools worldwide, including those in the U.S., Bri...
Address career colleges’ toxic choices in U.S.

ViewpointsMar 31, 2011

...in which they star front and center as benevolent purveyors of the American dream through education and gainful employment. The reality is the complete opposite. Former students testified before a U.S. Senate oversight committee this month about exorbitant tuition costs and unfulfilled promises of good jobs. One student spoke of completing a program in video-game design and ending up in the video...
[Editorial] Again Dokdo

EditorialMar 31, 2011

Koreans are rightly angered each time Japan renews an unwarranted claim to Korea’s easternmost rocky islets of Dokdo. This time, however, many of them voiced as much disappointment as anger on hearin...e Korean government dealt with the matter as it had forcefully done in the past ― bringing in Japan’s envoy to the foreign minister’s office and lodging a strong protest. The diplomatic task of immedi...