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New Zealand's leading contactless ticketing and payment system - today announced it will be widely available in the Auckland market in 2010, offering its small value payments platform across the retail sector and for most public transport journeys.

There are differences in opinion in the government over whether package tours to the Mt.

European ISP industry body EuroISPA has warned that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors in Seoul, South Korea, could "threaten the openness of the internet". The ACTA is being hammered out by the EU, the US, Japan, Australia and several other countries in an effort to combat trade in counterfeit ...

A NUMBER of North Koreans have been arrested and could face execution for leaking information on the movements of leader Kim Jong-Il to South Korean news media, reports and sources say.

YEONGGWANG, South Korea - Just a few years ago, the number of pregnant women in this city had declined so much that the sparsely equipped two-room maternity ward at Yeonggwang General Hospital was close to shutting down.

A South Korean man has been fined one million won for making discriminatory remarks against an Indian professor.

A South Korean supermodel whose apparent suicide in Paris a week ago sent shockwaves through the fashion industry reached out to a friend for help with relationship problems a few hours before she was found dead.

South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, said he is willing to hold a summit with the DPRK's top leader Kim Jong Il.

A men walk past a securities firm's electronic signboard indicating Japanese stock prices in Tokyo on Nov.

It's time South Korea flexed its 'soft power' 2009/11/28 WHEN Asean nations met in Thailand last month, South Korea was an important presence.

They've escaped the most repressive regime in the world, but for many North Korean refugees, life outside their closed, totalitarian country is still not easy.

NORTH Korea on Wednesday blasted South Korea for ignoring its offer to resume cross-border tours, denying allegations that tourist dollars had been used to develop nuclear weapons.

President Barack Obama's eight-day trip to Asia produced no tangible wins for the United States, though he is citing talks with Asian allies that he says could help create thousands of job and open new markets for American goods in the future.

Batsiushka Hanna of Belarus competes during the women's 63kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships in Goyang, north of Seoul, South Korea, Nov.

South Korean president Lee Myung-bak said Friday that he is ready to meet with his DPRK counterpart Kim Jong-il "anytime and anywhere" to resolve the nuclear issue.

In an unexpected move that could point to a breakthrough in stalled inter-Korean talks, officials from the two Koreas will take a joint tour through industrial complexes in China and Vietnam next month to seek ways to improve the Kaesong Industrial Complex north of the border.

A convicted serial murderer on death row died yesterday after hanging himself in his prison cell, government officials said, suspecting he took his own life because of worry over public opinion urging enforcement of death sentences.

The iPhone's arrival in South Korea is generating considerable buzz among consumers and industry watchers amid expectations it will shake up a market dominated by world-beating domestic manufacturers.

The U.S. national intelligence director secretly visited Seoul early this week to discuss Korea's dispatch of troops to Afghanistan, it emerged on Thursday.

A recent New York performance by Korean artist Yeondoo Jung grabbed the attention of U.S. art critics, columnists and collectors, many of whom viewed it one of the most noticeable performances of the year, a Seoul gallery said Monday and Yonhap News reported.