Most Popular
-
1
Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
-
2
Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
-
3
Yoon apologizes over first lady’s Dior bag scandal, but accuses special probe attempt as political maneuvering
-
4
Young Korean doctors seek plan B: cosmetic dermatology or overseas
-
5
South Korea open to Indonesian proposal to cut KF-21 payments
-
6
Girl hanging on bridge, police trying to rescue her both fall off; rescued immediately
-
7
Coupang earnings hit hard by losses from ailing Farfetch
-
8
[K-pop’s dilemma] Time, profit pressures work against originality
-
9
Why femicide and dating violence are growing issues in S. Korea
-
10
Korea projected to outpace Taiwan in chip production by 2032: US report
-
Moms selling breast milk online draw safety rebukes from U.S.
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Leah Garrapy produced so much breast milk for her baby Ella that she stuffed freezers with leftovers. She posted online that she's sell the surplus for $2 an ounce."I was running out of space,"said Garrapy, 25, who lives near Boynton Beach, Florida. "If I can sell some and mak
Dec. 21, 2011
-
Japan coastguard arrests Chinese fisherman
TOKYO (AFP) -- Japan’s coastguard said Tuesday it had arrested a Chinese boat captain in a possible fresh test for sometimes fraught maritime relations, just days after a South Korean officer was stabbed to death at sea.A coastguard vessel pursued the fisherman’s 130-ton boat for over six hours after it was spotted lowering ropes into the water around four kilometersoff islands in Nagasaki, southwest Japan, the second arrest in the area in less than two months.Japanese officers found some coral
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Japan coastguard arrests Chinese fisherman
TOKYO (AFP) -- Japan’s coastguard said Tuesday it had arrested a Chinese boat captain in a possible fresh test for sometimes fraught maritime relations, just days after a South Korean officer was stabbed to death at sea.A coastguard vessel pursued the fisherman’s 130-ton boat for over six hours after it was spotted lowering ropes into the water around four kilometersoff islands in Nagasaki, southwest Japan, the second arrest in the area in less than two months.Japanese officers found some coral
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Papua New Guinea crisis nears resolution
PORT MORESBY (AFP) ― A political crisis in Papua New Guinea appeared closer to an end Tuesday with the governor general admitting he was wrong to reinstate Sir Michael Somare as prime minister last week.The Pacific nation was thrown into a constitutional crisis when the Supreme Court reinstated Somare, 75, as leader and ruled the election of Peter O’Neill to the post by fellow lawmakers in August was unconstitutional.Governor General Michael Ogio, the representative of Queen Elizabeth II, the Co
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Iraq issues arrest warrant for V.P.
BAGHDAD (AP) ― Iraq’s Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant Monday for the Sunni vice president, accusing him of running a hit squad that assassinated government and security officials ― extraordinary charges a day after the last U.S. troops left the country.The vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, left Baghdad on Sunday for the semiautonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, presumably hoping that Kurdish authorities would not turn him in. Investigative judges banned him the same day from trave
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Thousands of rare documents burned in Egypt clash
CAIRO (AP) -- Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks stood on the back of a pickup truck Monday along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal debris.The volunteers, ranging from academic experts to appalled citizens, have spent the past two days trying to salvage what’s left of some 192,000 books, journals and writings, casualties of Egypt’s latest bout of violence.Institute d’Egypte, a
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Russia urges NATO to probe Libyan deaths
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russia urged NATO on Monday to investigate civilian deaths in Libya from its bombing campaign, saying the alliance’s claim that there were no civilian casualties is untrue.Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he has been asking NATO to give “a definitive report” to the U.N. Security Council summing up its activities in Libya. But he said “unfortunately” the alliance only provided “piecemeal, rather perfunctory reports ... (that) were not very informative.”Russia ho
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Egypt’s military lashes out at protesters
CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s ruling military has sought to discredit the pro-democracy movement, portraying a detained protester as a woman of questionable morals, accusing a prominent publisher of incitement and alleging the media is trying to sabotage the country.Monday’s verbal attacks by a member of the ruling military council came hours after troops in riot gear swept through Cairo’s Tahrir Square before daybreak, opening fire on protesters and lobbing tear gas into the crowds. At least three peopl
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Obama frets about rights in Venezuela, Chavez hits back
CARACAS (AP) ― President Barack Obama’s sharp criticisms of Venezuela’s human rights record and its ties to Iran are heightening tensions with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who on Monday responded by calling Obama a “clown” and telling him to mind his own business.Obama appeared to stiffen his stance toward Chavez in his remarks, which were published Monday by the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal. Some of Obama’s Republican opponents have also been strongly critical of Chavez, and analysts
Dec. 20, 2011
-
China villagers warned against protest march
BEIJING (AFP) -- Villagers in southern China in a rare stand-off with local Communist authorities said Monday they were being bombarded with calls from officials to warn them not to take part in a planned protest march.The residents of Wukan, which has been under police blockade for over a week, say they will march on local government offices in a nearby town on Wednesday if their demands are not met.They want authorities to release three villagers detained on Dec. 9 for allegedly inciting riots
Dec. 20, 2011
-
U.S. teen sentenced for killing gay student
VENTURA, California (AP) ― A teen who fatally shot a gay classmate in the back of the head during a computer lab nearly four years ago was sentenced Monday to 21 years in state prison, capping an emotional case that focused attention on how schools deal with sexual identity.Brandon McInerney, 17, dressed in a white T-shirt and blue pants, didn’t speak at the hearing, but his lawyer said his client was sorry for killing 15-year-old Larry King.“He feels deeply remorseful and stated repeatedly if h
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Japan refuses to stop Iranian oil imports
Tokyo’s huge reliance on foreign oil lead to rare discord with Washington WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Japan‘s foreign minister said Monday that his country would not stop imports of Iranian oil, striking a rare note of divergence with the United States during a visit to Washington.After talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that focused mostly on North Korea, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba highlighted Japan’s sanctions imposed on Iranian institutions due to concerns over its nuclear program.But
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Japan, U.S. unite on N. Korea, differ on Iran
Tokyo refuses to ban oil imports from Iran; chooses F-35 stealth jetWASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States and Japan put on a united front Monday after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s death but the allies showed differences elsewhere with the Asian economic giant refusing to stop oil imports from Iran.President Barack Obama spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and “underscored the United States’ commitment to the defense of our close allies, including Japan,” the White House sai
Dec. 20, 2011
-
China's president visits N. Korea embassy
BEIJING, Dec 20, 2011 (AFP) - China's President Hu Jintao visited the North Korean embassy in Beijing on Tuesday to offer his condolences on the death of Kim Jong-Il, the official Xinhua news agency said.China is North Korea's closest ally, and just hours after the announcement of Kim's death on Mon
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Magazine poll names Strauss-Kahn wife Woman of the Year
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife Anne Sinclair, who stood by the disgraced former IMF chief during his sex scandal, was named Woman of the Year in a poll for a French woman's magazine on Monday.Sinclair, a 63-year-old French journalist and wealthy art heiress, was chosen as the woman who had most "made
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Philippine storm toll exceeds 1,000
MANILA, Dec 20, 2011 (AFP) - The toll of dead and missing from a cyclone that swept the southern Philippines has exceeded 1,000, a government agency said Tuesday as cities prepared mass burials for the victims. Police officers and volunteers search for flood victims Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, four days
Dec. 20, 2011
-
US study says Christians one third of world population
A major US study released Monday put the total number of Christians worldwide at 2.18 billion -- almost a third -- of the estimated global population of 6.9 billion.Christians make up as big a proportion of the world's population as they did a century ago, but whereas two-thirds of them in 1910 were
Dec. 20, 2011
-
Syria mulls Arab observers
BEIRUT (AP) ― Armed clashes erupted in Syria, killing at least 15 civilians and six government troops, activists said. Isolated and faced with a possible civil war, Syria appeared to be bending toward allowing Arab League observers in as a step toward ending the conflict.The Al-Arabiya TV channel said it had information from the Qatari prime minister that Syrian President Bashar Assad will sign an observer deal but gave no further details. Last month Syria agreed to an Arab League plan but balke
Dec. 19, 2011
-
Yemen in danger of becoming next Somalia: U.N.
International body says Yemen crisis can effect nearly 4 million peopleDUBAI (AFP) ― U.N. agencies warned on Sunday that Yemen is on its way to becoming another Somalia, saying nearly four million people will be affected by the impoverished nation’s political and economic crisis in 2012.“About four million people will be affected by the crisis in Yemen in 2012 and will require immediate humanitarian support,” said the U.N. Inter-Agency Standing Committee.More than half will be “severely food ins
Dec. 19, 2011
-
Pakistani president returns amid pressure
KARACHI (AP) ― Pakistan’s president returned home early Monday, nearly two weeks after a surprise trip to Dubai for medical treatment sparked rumors that he might step down under pressure from the country’s powerful military.President Asif Ali Zardari’s arrival will likely help quell speculation about his future. But officials have not spelled out exactly what was wrong with the president, and he is still under threat from a memo scandal that has upset the army and already forced the Pakistani a
Dec. 19, 2011