...ts of food contamination grow FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) ― Plant operators evacuated workers from Japan’s tsunami-stricken nuclear complex Monday after gray smoke rose from one of its reactor units, the l... electric grid and in pumping seawater to cool another reactor and replenish it and a sixth reactor’s storage pools. But the buildup in pressure inside the vessel holding Unit 3’s reactor presented s...

South Korea and the U.S. will hold next week their first high-level plenary session of a joint committee on ways to boost the deterrence Washington provides to protect Seoul against North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and other weapons of mass destruction, officials here said Monday. The first high-level meeting of the Extended Deterrence Policy Committee, set for March 28-29 in Hawaii, is expected ...

North Korea has once again accused U.S. troops of trespassing into the Demilitarized Zone, saying that South Korea would take the responsibility for all the results from the “provocations” including ...st state’s military has sent a notice containing such a threat to the South, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency on Sunday. In the notice, the North claimed that some 100 U.S...

...ea is ready to pull out all of its nationals from Libya if necessary after examining safety conditions, an official here said Monday as allied forces launch powerful strikes against the Libyan leader’s military. To assist the possible mass evacuation of Korean nationals to neighboring states, Seoul’s 4,500-ton destroyer Choi Young has been on standby off the coast of Egypt since Sunday. The embassy in Libya is currently viewing whether the safety of 118 Koreans currently residing in the norther...

...ast July along with four founding member cities ― Seoul, London, Sydney and Toronto. During Monday’s launch ceremony, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi and Durban, South Africa newly signed an agreement to jo...f the Culture, Design and Tourism Headquarters. British futurist Rohit Talwar, who became the FCCI’s first director general, delivered a special lecture on the future of the “MICE industry,” which re...

...Another bin of spinach ― labeled as being from Chiba prefecture, west of Tokyo ― was sold out. “It’s a little hard to say this, but I won’t buy vegetables from Fukushima and that area,” said shopper ... of her visiting 2-year-old grandchild after a tiny amount of radioactive iodine was found in Tokyo’s tap water. She expressed fears that the toddler could possibly get cancer. “That’s why I’m going...

Korea’s state-run Korea Gas Corp. said Monday that it has developed a design technology for the world’s largest liquefied natural gas tank. The tank has a storage capacity of 270,000 kiloliters, up 35 percent compared with that of the largest existing tank, helping reduce the construction cost per LNG tank by 23.5 billion won ($20.9 million), KOGAS said in a statement. The company said it is co...

With President Lee Myung-bak’s appointment of a new government financial regulator earlier this year, reform is once again a serious topic in Korea’s one-step-forward, two-steps-back financial servic...ized London’s role as a financial capital and generating tremendous wealth for the country. England’s financial sector contributes about 30 percent to the country’s GDP. In Korea, it is 7 percent at b...