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Residents wearing masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus past by lanterns and neon lights promoting a restaurant in Beijing. (AP)

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...

27 Jun 2020 10:35 AM IST

North Korean government shows North Koreans prepare anti-South Korea propaganda leaflets in North Korea. South Korea on Monday, June 22, 2020 urged North Korea to scrap a plan to launch propaganda leaflets across the border. (Korea News Service via AP, File)

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 IST

Workers in protective suits take the temperatures of people at a COVID-19 testing site for those who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus outbreak at a wholesale food market in Beijing. (AP Photo)

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...

22 Jun 2020 1:27 PM IST

Smoke rises in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, seen from Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. South Korea says that North Korea has exploded an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border. (AP Photo)

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...

16 Jun 2020 2:55 PM IST

Visitors hang a ribbon on a wire fence decorated with other ribbons at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. North Korea said Tuesday it will cut off all communication channels with South Korea as it escalates its pressure on the South for failing to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across their tense border. (AP Photo)

North Korea cut off communication with South over anti-Pyongyang...

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

9 Jun 2020 12:56 PM IST

Workers assemble cars at the Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd factory in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. Asias factory pain worsens as Chinas recovery fails to lift demand. (AFP Photo)

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...

1 Jun 2020 10:12 AM IST

North Korea on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, repeated it has no immediate intent to resume dialogue with the United States hours before U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun was to arrive in South Korea for discussions on the stalled nuclear diplomacy. (AP Photo)

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...

7 July 2020 3:32 PM IST

A relative (L) along with workers wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) place the body of a person who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus before cremation in a furnace at the Nigambodh Ghat cremation ground, in New Delhi. (AFP)

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 IST

Samsung Electronics wins $6.6 billion Verizon order for network equipment. (AFP Photo)

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

Samsung's global prospects for its network business have improved following US sanctions on its bigger rival Huawei,...

7 Sept 2020 9:04 AM IST

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

5 April 2021 1:23 PM IST

Rescue workers and firefighters try to help injured people near the scene of a crowd surge in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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 IST

A medical worker takes a nasal sample from a man during a COVID-19 testing at a makeshift testing site at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 15, 2021. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

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...

26 Jan 2022 11:48 AM IST