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SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips, announced quarterly earnings estimates for the first time Monday, saying it hopes to reduce market confusion and speculation about its performance.

McNair murdered...Obama's Russian trip...Federer makes history NASHVILLE, Tenn. Police are ruling former NFL quarterback Steve McNair's shooting death a homicide, but they say they haven't yet reached a conclusion about the death of the 20-year-old woman found near him in his Nashville, Tenn., condo.

SEOUL: North Korea test-fired seven missiles off its east coast Saturday, South Korean officials said, in an act of defiance apparently timed for the US Independence Day holiday.

It was the biggest salvo of ballistic weaponry since the North fired a long-range Taepodong-2 and six smaller missiles on US Independence Day in 2006.

Twenty-one students and four chaperones visiting South Korea as part of an educational program sponsored by the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council are making up for lost time after being quarantined at the start of their stay.

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, July 2 -- Columns of U.S. Marines in eight-wheeled armored vehicles pushed deep into southern Afghanistan on Thursday in an attempt to cut off Taliban supply lines from Pakistan and restore order in areas long neglected by short-handed NATO forces.

North Korea sought payment through a bank in Malaysia for a suspected shipment of weapons to Burma being carried on a freighter tracked by the US Navy, according to a source quoted by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

The deaths come with thousands of Marines involved in the biggest U.S. military operation in Afghanistan since the American-led invasion of 2001.

North Korea fired five ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day.

South Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said it plans to spend about KRW4 trillion to expand Incheon International, enabling it to handle 41% more passengers and 29% more freight by 2015.

Premier Liu Chao-shiuan, right, toasts outgoing American Institute in Taiwan Director Stephen Young during a cocktail reception held yesterday to mark U.S. Independence Day tomorrow.

There is a lot of nervous talk lately about the understanding of and communicating to the a mass market'. Understandably so, this demographic has obtained increasingly greater spending power and thus a more significant impact on the economy.

The newly-appointed U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific will visit South Korea later this month as he takes his first regional tour, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday, citing a diplomatic source.

Subtropical squalls suddenly hit the central part of the Korean Peninsula on Thursday contrary to weather forecasts.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast Thursday, a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

Career diplomat William A. Stanton to succeed Stephen M. Young who returns to the U.S. Taiwan welcomes the appointment of William A. Stanton as new director of the Taipei office of the American Institute in Taiwan and expects him to help further bilateral relations, diplomatic officials said yesterday.

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The third round of talks between South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea seems to have ended without an afternoon session on Wednesday.

A group of corn and beef producers from Iowa and Nebraska finished an Asian trade mission this weekend in Korea by holding meetings with retailers, distributors, cold storage operators and packer representatives.

The Teachers Union in south Korea called an emergency press conference in Yongdungpho, Seoul, on June 26, declaring that it would turn out in the second campaign of announcing the declaration on the situation to protest the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors' reckless repression.