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Protesters from Myanmar's National League for Democracy shout slogans during a rally calling for immediate release of their pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and denouncing Myanmar junta's policy near the ...

Seoul doubts Kim Il-Sung illness report South Korean intelligence officers are denying reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's health might be failing.

A South Korean official Sunday announced his government is considering resuming food aid to North Korea.

The government on Thursday said it would give food aid to North Korea regardless of the Stalinist country s claim to be reassembling nuclear facilities at Yongbyon.

South Korea has expressed anger over Japan's renewed claim to a cluster of islets at the center of a long-running territorial dispute.

WESTERNS have been around as long as moving pictures, and two movies at this week's Toronto film festival, including Ed Harris's Appaloosa, show how the old standard has taken wildly different looks over a ...

Seoul - The world's first cloned dog has become a father after the first successful breeding of cloned canines, South Korean researchers said on Thursday.

Top US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill has called for verifying of the nuclear declaration of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Headlines warn of a "September crisis." The currency falls to a four-year low and the stock market tumbles.

A Hong Kong company that managed a container ship that spilled nearly 54,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay last fall has asked a federal judge for permission to plead no contest to eight criminal ...

BEIJING, Sept. 5: A top American nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing today for talks on North Korea's nuclear programme as Pyongyang took steps seen as reversing its promised disarmament.

FLAMBOYANT front-runner Taro Aso formally announced his bid to become Japan's next prime minister on Friday as younger rivals called for generational change in the ailing ruling party.

By Marie-France Han and Nathan Layne

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , the world's top maker of memory chips, said it may buy flash memory maker SanDisk , which is valued at $3.2 billion, in a deal that could reshape a struggling industry.

"We are looking at various opportunities regarding SanDisk, but nothing has been decided yet," Samsung spokesman James Chung told Reuters in response to reports the South Korean firm was interested in the U.S. maker of flash memory, which is widely used in storage devices and digital gadgets.

SEOUL - South Korean Go Gong-ju had a choice of serving in the army or doing a stint in jail.

Friday, 5 September 2008, 11:22 am Press Release: United Nations The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it is launching a major relief campaign to help more than 6 million people in the ...

Korea Times reports that Sony's DVD distribution arm in Korea has decided to stop selling discs in that country, making it the last of the major studios to do so.

A shooting spree in Washington State left six dead and two wounded with the suspected gunman surrendering to police after a car chase, local media reported.

SNUPPY, the first cloned dog, has become a father after the world's first successful breeding involving only cloned canines, South Korean researchers said today.

Thursday, September 04, 2008 By Atif Nadeem LAHORE WHILE keeping in mind cost-factor for importing new CNG buses, the transport owners have demanded the government import new CNG buses from India, which will be ...

Visitors talk in front of an electronic stock board at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept.