ISTANBUL, Nov 5, 2018 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia sent two experts to Istanbul with the specific aim of covering up evidence after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its consulate in Istanbul, a Turkish official said on Monday. More than a month after the Saudi royal-insider-turned critic was killed inside the mission on October 2, Turkey has still yet to recover the remains amid claims that h...

SINGAPORE -- About 120 Korean small and medium-sized enterprises showcased their products and services to potential customers and buyers in Southeast Asia during a two-day trade fair that ended here Friday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (Kotra) held the Korea Brand & Entertainment Expo for the first time in Singapore, to which 260 pros...

South Korea will host a tourism exhibition in the United Arab Emirates this week to try to attract more Middle Eastern visitors, the state-run tourism agency said Tuesday. The three-day 2018 Korea Culture & Tourism Festival will kick off in the oil-rich capital of Abu Dhabi on Thursday, according to the Korea Tourism Organization. (Korea Tourism Organization/Yonhap) The tourism promotion agenc...

Vietjet Air Flight VJ982 was forced to make an emergency landing in Hong Kong around 1 a.m. on Tuesday while en route from Hanoi to Gimhae after crew detected an issue with the aircraft. According to aviation authorities, the flight destined for Gimhae International Airport made a sudden detour to Hong Kong about an hour and 10 minutes after takeoff. The crew reportedly told Gimhae authorities t...

More than 20 Korean NGOs, including human rights groups, protested the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation’s recent decision to award Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this year’s Seoul Peace Prize, saying he does not deserve the honor as he has a history of being complicit in violence against Muslims in India. “We demand (the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation) retract its decision to g...

A Korean chef and restaurateur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on the northwest side of Chicago in Belmont Gardens early Thursday morning (local time), police reported. According to witnesses, the 46-year-old man, identified as Peter Rim, was reported to have been sitting on the passenger side of his own vehicle when a person in a large SUV pulled up next to him and opened fire. Peter R...

South Korea has been selected as the host country for the upcoming 19th International Anti-Corruption Conference, one of the biggest events of its kind, slated for June 2020, the country’s Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission announced Thursday. The conference is a biannual global anti-corruption event co-hosted by the host country and Transparency International, a Berlin-based intern...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday stressed the need to start easing international sanctions against North Korea to further motivate the communist state in its efforts to denuclearize in a summit with British Prime Minister Theresa May. The British leader agreed on the need to come up with ways to move forward the North's denuclearization process while also stressing the need for Pyong...

BRUSSELS -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged efforts to further develop the countries' bilateral relationship during their meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Brussels on Friday. "The two leaders noted the countries continued to develop their complementary economic cooperation based on the South Korea-EU free trade ag...

A male passenger on an Asiana Airlines flight from Incheon to Chicago died of a heart attack last Thursday around two to three hours after takeoff, Chicago’s Korean-language media outlet reported Tuesday. The captain reported a medical emergency on board after the man, 76, experienced heart attack symptoms and collapsed. Flight attendants made an announcement and found a physician, who performed...

South Korea said Wednesday it will extend the mission of two military jets in Indonesia hit by a powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami. The C-130 Hercules planes were dispatched to the central island of Sulawesi on Sept. 28 to support emergency aid supplies. Their mission was supposed to end Wednesday. But the government has decided to prolong it until Oct. 26 at the request of the Indonesia...

HANOI (AFP) -- Vietnam on Friday jailed a blogger who posted critical material on Facebook for five years, his second sentence in less than a month as a hardline administration tightens its grip on dissent. More than 50 activists, rights campaigners and bloggers have been put behind bars in 2018, in one of the harshest crackdowns in years. Observers say a conservative administration in charge...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis accepted the resignation Friday of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl after he became entangled in two major sexual abuse and cover-up scandals and lost the support of many in his flock. But in a letter released by Wuerl‘s office, Francis praised his longtime ally and suggested Wuerl had unfairly become a scapegoat, having made some “mistakes” in handling sex ...