South Korea back on track Asia Times | By Robert M Cutler | MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery path last month after faltering in January, Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said on Friday, backed by a report that attributed ear...
China looks to North Korea nuclear talks before July Zeenews Beijing: China wants stalled six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear arms activities to restart before July, a senior Chinese diplomat said, warning that progress was by no means certain. | Those talks bring together North and South Korea, host China, the United States, Japan and Russi...
Ralston Saul wins Korea's Manhae Prize CBC Canadian writer John Ralston Saul has won South Korea's Manhae Prize. (Sophie Boussols/John Ralston Saul) | John Ralston Saul, a Canadian author and president of International PEN, has been awarded South Korea's Manhae Grand Prize for literature. | M...
S Korea-EU FTA likely to be inked by April China Daily | SEOUL - South Korea seeks to reach the final stage of sealing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union by the end of April, the trade ministry said Wednesday. | "We are aiming at formally sealing the deal in end-April, which we are now ...
Turkey's EUAS to sign nuclear deal Korea's Kepco The Guardian (Adds details, background) ANKARA, March 10 (Reuters) - Turkish state power company Elektrik Uretim (EUAS) will sign a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with South Korea's Kepco, a Turkish energy ministry source said on Wednesday. The agreement wi...
Clinton: North Korea encourages US Newsvine | BEJING, Feb. 27 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she's encouraged by signs that DPRK may be getting ready to return to stalled talks on its nuclear program | Clint...
S. Korea's Lee avoids criticizing Japan in anniversary speech Asahi News | SEOUL--South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Monday refrained from bashing Japan in a speech marking the anniversary of an independence movement against Japanese colonial rule ...
Korea unveils the 'future of transport' - the Online Electric Vehicle The Times | Its inventors believe that this is the future of urban transport - but it was hard not to be underwhelmed as the test vehicle trundled around a circuit on the edge of the South Korean capital. | The first public demonstration of the Online Electric...
South Korea unveils recharging road for eco-friendly buses Mumbai Mirror | Seoul: South Korean researchers launched an environmentally friendly public transport system using a "recharging road" - with a vehicle sucking power magnetically from buried electric strips., The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), | The Online Electr...
Korea fall one goal short Indian Express | Korea came into the final match of the group stages of the Hockey World Cup needing to beat The Netherlands by a two-goal margin in order to make the final four. They fought hard till the final whistle, but managed to meet only one half of their ta...
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Seoul should share development lessons, German president says m&c | Seoul - South Korea should do more to share its experience of economic development, German President Horst Koehler said Tuesday. | The country has shown that is possible to go within two generations from a 'poor and shattered country' to one of the world's richest high technology economies, he said. | Speaking to trade association representatives...
PYONGYANG JOURNAL, Part 2 Asia Times | Happiness rolls over us like a wave | By Pepe Escobar | Part 1: | PYONGYANG - North Korea, for the West, and especially the United States, is the absolute epitome of "the other''; the ultimate all-around, top-to-bottom, no-holds-barred antithesis to neo-liberalism and post-modern turbo-capitalism on show in the whole world. | Cuba embraces one wi...
