Busan Metropolitan City has opened a global center branch in partnership with Busan Foundation for International Activities. The center offers counseling services and free language programs to expatriates, including information and consultation on immigration, employment, medical care, transportation, taxes, insurance and banking. The new center has also increased the number of languages offere...

The Seoul Global Center is offering free offices in its Business Support Center for foreign entrepreneurs and investors. The offer is open to foreign nationals who have a visa that allows them to start a business, and have a concrete business plan. Preference is given to those who have already made a foreign investment notification or have already started a business this year. Three 5.75-square...

SELANGOR - An angry husband, who was awakened from his morning slumber, beat up and stabbed his wife, Harian Metro reported. The woman is now in a coma and fighting for her life at a hospital, the paper said. A police source told the daily that the couple in their 30s had quarrelled at their home after the wife woke him up at about 6am on Sunday and asked him to perform his dawn prayers. After ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A 30-year-old man spent RM80,000 on a weight loss programme but ended up having 30 open wounds, with one as big as a fist, around his waistline. The man, who only wanted to be known as Lim, said he got to know about the “needleless injection” treatment when a friend suggested that they enter into the cosmetics business in October 2009. “Initially, I was not interested, but after m...

South Korean college students spend less time on study and are passive in class, research showed Tuesday. A report released by the Korea Educational Development Institute indicated that full-time college students don’t devote much time to studying. The institute surveyed 2,019 full-time students attending four-year universities nationwide on their study habits from June 14-July 2. The report sh...

A fire broke out at SK Energy’s oil storage facility in Incheon Tuesday afternoon. No casualties were reported. Fire fighters have been struggling to put out the fire.

Sony Corp. introduced its first tablet computers, joining Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. in their pursuit of Apple Inc., a year after the iPad spurred a surge in demand for the devices. Sony will use Google Inc.’s Android operating system for the personal computers, Kunimasa Suzuki, Sony’s head of personal computers, said in Tokyo today. The S1 model will feature a 9...

Police in India are investigating a case where 10 million rupees ($222,000) were reportedly missing after a raid. Those who broke into the steel chest at the bank were not human but termites. According to a report by the Telegraph, the termites had been damaging bank furniture and documents before they broke into the storage where the money had been preserved since January. “It’s a matter of in...

HANOI (Yonhap) -- A growing number of Vietnamese students are studying the Korean language at university, mainly to work at Korean firms operating in their country, local sources said Tuesday. More than 2,000 students are studying Korean at 10 universities nationwide, including Vietnam National University (VNU) in Hanoi and another national college in Ho Chi Minh, the sources said. About 150 pr...