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South Korean tobacco companies oppose new warning stickers

South Korean tobacco-makers and retailers expressed their opposition to the Health Ministry’s new antismoking policies, which require all firms to fix health-warning illustrations on their cigarette...

April 3, 2016
Social affairs
Number of Catholic baptisms in S. Korea decreased last year

The number of baptisms in the Catholic church declined last year although the overall Catholic population rose slightly in South Korea, the local Catholic church said Wednesday. According to the sta...

March 30, 2016
Social affairs
Maoist rebels kill 7 Indian paramilitary soldiers

PATNA, India (AP) -- Maoist rebels killed at least seven Indian paramilitary soldiers by blowing up their armored vehicle Wednesday in central India, police said. The insurgents detonated a roadside...

March 30, 2016
International
South Koreans still struggle with idea of child support

Park Eun-jeong (not her real name), a single mother of two, suffered a car accident just seven months after her divorce back in 2014. Her husband had agreed to wire 800,000 won ($688) monthly for chi...

March 20, 2016
코리아 헤럴드
South Korean gender minister advocates children’s rights at U.N.

South Korea’s Gender Minister Kang Eun-hee expressed Seoul’s determination and “achievements” in eradicating violence against women and children at a United Nations meeting in New York on Tuesday, ev...

March 16, 2016
Social affairs
Most Koreans against hospitals admitting AIDS patients

More than 95 percent of South Koreans are against the Health Ministry‘s decision to bar geriatric hospitals from rejecting AIDS patients, the Korean Association of Geriatric Hospitals claimed Friday,...

March 11, 2016
Social affairs
Couple arrested for abusing 2-month-old daughter in South Korea

Police on Thursday arrested a couple in their 20s who are suspected of letting their 2-month-old daughter die by not taking her to the hospital after she suffered an injury at their home in Bucheon, ...

March 10, 2016
Social affairs
Young naturalized Koreans struggle to fit in

More than 30 percent of foreign-born South Koreans aged 15-24 are not in school and out of work, while for 58.3 percent of them, their parents had divorced before they moved to South Korea, a report ...

March 9, 2016
Social affairs
Single moms denied parental allowance in South Korea

Han Min-ji (not her real name), a single mother in her late 30s, gave birth to her fourth child in January. She had three children from her previous marriage and had broken up with the newborn’s fat...

March 8, 2016
Social affairs
80% of Korean cancer patients keep pregnancies

Nearly 80 percent of Korean women who were diagnosed with cancer while pregnant between 1995 and 2013 chose to continue with their pregnancies, a study by Samsung Medical Center showed Monday. The ...

March 7, 2016
Social affairs
Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt dies at 86

VIENNA, (AFP) -- Celebrated Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, considered to be the "pope" of the Baroque music revival, died Saturday aged 86, his family announced via the APA news agency. "N...

March 6, 2016
International
Pope calls nuns killed in Yemen modern-day martyrs

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis says the four nuns killed in an attack on a home for the elderly in Yemen are modern-day martyrs and victims of indifference. Francis told the faithful Sunday that ...

March 6, 2016
International
China cuts 2016 growth target to 6.5-7%

China on Saturday cut its growth target for this year to a range of 6.5 to seven percent, as the world's second-largest economy faces a litany of challenges from overcapacity to weak trade. The coun...

March 6, 2016
Economy
S. Korean Jang Ha-na picks up 2nd LPGA win of season in Singapore

South Korean Jang Ha-na picked up her second LPGA Tour win of the season in Singapore on Sunday. Jang cruised to a four-stroke victory at HSBC Women's Champions at Sentosa Golf Club's Serapong Cours...

March 6, 2016
More sports
Between rate cut and pause, BOK to weigh options

Economists were evenly divided Sunday on whether the Bank of Korea would slash interest rates to a fresh low this week, ending an eight-month pause in the monetary easing cycle. But regardless of w...

March 6, 2016
Finance

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