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Skand Tayal | Will Camp David summit lead to a strategic shift in the Indo-Pacific?

The Camp David trilateral summit is a concrete move for strategic rebalancing in the Indo-Pacific triggered by Chinese expansionism

30 Aug 2023 12:00 AM

AA Edit | To a hydrogen-powered India

Hydrogen, with its limitless and extremely low cost supply, can become a powerhouse for India’s next generation transformation

06 Jan 2023 12:05 AM

S. Korea in shock, grief as 151 die in Halloween crowd surge

Tens of thousands of people were believed to have gathered in Itaewon for festivities on Saturday night

30 Oct 2022 11:02 AM

S Korea tests new virus steps as infections reach new high

Officials also planning to treat most mild cases at home and reshape a testing regime that had been centered around PCR tests

26 Jan 2022 11:48 AM

Skand Tayal | Korean lessons: Pardon politics, prosecutors, big business & graft

This year, rather surprisingly, President Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea pardoned his predecessor, former President

06 Jan 2022 3:31 AM

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LG to exit loss-making mobile phone business worldwide

LG was once the third-largest mobile phone maker but has lost market share to Chinese and other competitors

05 Apr 2021 1:23 PM

New testing method can diagnose COVID-19 in just 30 minutes, study finds

The virus can be detected immediately without any preparation process with high sensitivity in a short time

06 Oct 2020 3:41 PM

Samsung signs $6.6 billion deal with Verizon to supply 5G network solutions

Samsung’s global prospects for its network business have improved following US sanctions on its bigger rival Huawei, analysts said

07 Sep 2020 9:04 AM

World COVID-19 deaths top 800,000 as nations ramp up measures

More than half the global fatalities have been reported in the hardest-hit United States, Brazil, Mexico and India

23 Aug 2020 12:40 PM

North Korea rejects talks ahead of US envoy's arrival in Seoul

North Korea ridiculed South's “nonsensical” calls for revived negotiations between US and Pyongyang when it lost its relevance as a mediator

07 Jul 2020 3:32 PM

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China, South Korea report new cases in double digits

A recent report said testing found only a few cases without a link to Beijing market and the steps taken mean the risk of spread is low

27 Jun 2020 10:35 AM

South Korea urges North not to send leaflets amid high tensions

Earlier Monday, North Korea said it had manufactured 12 million propaganda leaflets to be floated toward South Korea

22 Jun 2020 2:39 PM

Coronavirus cases surge in US, but slow in China, South Korea

World Health Organization reported largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours

22 Jun 2020 1:27 PM

North Korea blows up liaison office shared with South Korea

Since early June, North Korea issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of South over activists sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets

16 Jun 2020 2:55 PM

North Korea cut off communication with South over anti-Pyongyang leaflets row

South Korean government said it would push for legal bans on launching leaflets, but the North said South Korean response lacks sincerity

09 Jun 2020 12:56 PM

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Asia's factory pain deepens as China's recovery fails to lift demand

Japan’s factory activity shrank at fastest pace since 2009, while South Korea saw manufacturing slump at sharpest pace in more than a decade

01 Jun 2020 10:12 AM

Vizag gas leak: LG Chem transport Styrene Monomer inventory to South Korea

The company would continue to work with government agencies to ensure all possible support for bereaved families and victims

14 May 2020 3:52 PM

South Korea sends delegation to probe Vizag gas tragedy

LG Polymers, where the gas leak occurred, is a unit of South Korea’s biggest petrochemical maker, LG Chem

13 May 2020 12:48 PM

South Korea raises age of sexual consent from 13 to 16

Previously, teenagers aged 13 or older were held to be legally capable of consenting to sex, resulting in controversial cases in the country

13 May 2020 11:54 AM

Budweiser to invest more in e-commerce as virus hits offline demand

The company said it would keep up efforts to market its premium and super-premium beers

07 May 2020 3:24 PM

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