..., trimming military spending and limiting tax deductions for the wealthy. Jacob Lew, the president’s budget director, said Sunday that the new spending plan for the 2012 would disprove the notion tha... will boost spending in such areas as education, public works and research, and charging that Obama’s cuts are not deep enough. They vowed to push ahead with their own plans to trim $61 billion in sp...

...announced another major anti-government rally next weekend. Washington meanwhile called on Algeria’s security forces to show restraint, a day after nationwide protests against President Abdelaziz Bou...hun violence and respect their citizens’ right to peaceful demonstration.” He also slammed Algeria’s state of emergency as “unjustifiable.” The CNCD is demanding the immediate end of Bouteflika’s re...

...ank to map out her campaign strategies and introducing revision bills aimed at improving the nation’s welfare framework. The factional leader, who commands the loyalty of nearly a third of the GNP la...aughter of former President Park Chung-hee, who is credited with his economic leadership in the 1960s and 1970s, but criticized for his authoritarian rule, tabled her revision bills aimed at establish...

Another round of heavy snow hit the nation’s east coastal area Monday, which had already received a record snowfall of more than 100 centimeters over the weekend. While officials and local residents...ngChang where a team from the International Olympic Committee began on-site inspection for the city’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Games. The City of Gangneung, which designated the day as “Snow Clean...

... Aside from being a global standard for rapid economic development success, beginning in the mid-’90s, public mandates to create an “e-government” with an overarching goal of producing a smaller, tran...rack record, COTI is regarded as a true global training center. With the current Korean government’s focus on developing a green economy, it is all the more necessary that internationally focused tra...

...75 percent even after the January inflation figure recorded 4.1 percent, breaching the central bank’s 4 percent ceiling. The split decision, however, made economists confident about a raise in March.... raising interest rate in March. It (February rate review) was a close call, but we thought that it’s more likely for them not to raise this time and pause and signal a hike later in March,” Kwon Goo-...

Major telecoms, including Korea’s KT Corp. and SK Telecom, have moved a step closer to commercializing an open mobile applications platform established by a multinational alliance of telecoms and dev...nd SKT demonstrated some of their to-be-commercialized applications that follow the global alliance’s standardized format. “We will work further towards allowing our capable developers around the wor...