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Signs point to N. Korean troops in Russia-Ukraine combat zone
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Rose's 'Apt.' redefines K-pop's global appeal
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Two years on, thousands mourn Itaewon tragedy, calling for accountability
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[Herald Interview] Love for K-drama, food defines 'Secret Ingredient'
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Hanwha, HD Hyundai vie for Poland’s $2.7b submarine program
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103 autumn foliage paths in Seoul
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First lady’s controversies to top agenda at meeting of party leaders
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Seoul aims to halve current suicide rate by 2030
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When two worlds collab: K-pop flexes power with global stars
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4 in 10 young South Koreans take up 'irregular' jobs: data
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'Kampha and the Ivory Princess' stages special performance
The “Kampha and the Ivory Princess” stage play showed in a very special performance at the National Cultural Hall in Vientiane yesterday. “Kampha and the Ivory Princess” is based on a local fable which was modified for the stage, while being billed as “a romantic legend of poignant love set in a luxuriant dream-like landscape redolent of the quaint beauty of Lao culture.” The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism in cooperation with a local company in China built the play’s dramatic stage
World NewsApril 25, 2017
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China, S. Africa talks may result in culture exchanges
The first talks between China and South Africa on people-to-people exchanges and culture were praised Monday by President Xi Jinping, who said it would “build a foundation” of public support for the ties and stimulate cultural exchanges. The talks were led by visiting Vice Premier Liu Yandong and South African Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa, who co-chaired the meeting. Xi, in a letter of congratulations following the first meeting, said the China-South Africa High-Level People-to-Pe
World NewsApril 25, 2017
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Star's editor-in-chief appointed new ANN chairperson
BANGKOK (ANN) -- The Star's editor-in-chief Datuk Leanne Goh of Malaysia has been appointed the Asia News Network chairperson for the period 2017-2018. Datuk Leanne Goh, editor-in-chief of The StarThe appointment was made by the Executive Board of ANN, an alliance of 22 media from 21 countries over the weekend. She succeeds Zaffar Abbas, Editor of Dawn from Pakistan. Goh serves as a ANN Executive Board member and recently, received a lifetime achievement award in recognition of her leadership in
World NewsApril 25, 2017
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As budget deadline looms, Trump pushes border wall funding
WASHINGTON -- With a budget deadline looming, President Donald Trump plans a whirlwind of activities seeking to highlight accomplishments while putting fresh pressure on congressional Democrats to pay for a wall on the US-Mexico border, even if that pressure risks a possible government shutdown. Trump approaches the symbolic 100-day mark for his administration this coming week juggling a renewed health care push and his demands that a must-pass government funding bill should include money for th
World NewsApril 24, 2017
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Greece, creditors to resume talks in Athens, seek swift deal
ATHENS -- Representatives of Greece's international creditors are due in Athens to restart talks on further cutbacks required under the country's bailout deal. A European Commission spokesman says that the officials are returning to Athens on Monday, and will aim to reach a preliminary deal "as soon as possible." Margaritis Schinas said that the negotiations are expected to start Tuesday, and should last several days. Greece has already agreed to further slash pensions in 2019, and drastically e
World NewsApril 24, 2017
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[Graphic News] Jobless college graduates surpass 500,000
The number of unemployed people with a bachelor‘s degree in South Korea surpassed 500,000 in the first quarter for the first time, Statistics Korea‘s data showed.The number of unemployed college graduates is 543,000, unemployed high school graduates were tallied at 451,000 and middle and primary school graduates at 174,000.The number of people who are jobless reached 1.17 million in the January-March period, up 1.2 percent from a year earlier, according to the government data.
World NewsApril 24, 2017
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[Graphic News] Deaths caused by tobacco still climbing
The total number of smokers and tobacco-related deaths worldwide has increased, reported a consortium of researchers. According to the Global Burden of Disease report, the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use surpassed 6.4 million in 2015, up 4.7 percent compared to 1990, due to the expanding world population. More than 930 million people smoked daily in 2015, a 7 percent jump compared to 870 million in 1990.Smoking causes 1 in 10 deaths worldwide, with half of them in just four countries:
World NewsApril 23, 2017
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[Newsmaker] Thousands march to fight alternative facts
Thousands of people joined a global March for Science on Saturday with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight against what many see as an “assault on facts” by populist politicians. US President Donald Trump himself passed dozens of protesters on his way to visit wounded soldiers at a military hospital. “Stop denying the earth is dying,” one sign visible from Trump’s motorcade read. People with signs attend a rally before the March for Science in New York on Saturday. AFP-Yonhap Despit
World NewsApril 23, 2017
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Pence reaffirms US-Australia alliance after Trump spat
Vice President Mike Pence and Australia's prime minister brushed off any lingering hostility over a contentious refugee deal and joined forces on Saturday to urge China to take a greater role in pressuring North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons program.Pence and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull repeatedly praised the decades-long American-Australian alliance following a meeting in Sydney, with the vice president thanking Turnbull for calling on Beijing to play a more active part in the internati
World NewsApril 22, 2017
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11 candidates vie for French presidency in high-stakes race
From far left to far right, young to old, 11 candidates are vying for France’s presidency in an election that is being watched as an indicator of populism’s global appeal. The traditional left-right contenders are joined -- and often have been overshadowed during the campaign -- by rivals pledging to scrap long-held expectations, such as France’s participation in the European Union and NATO.French voters cast ballots Sunday in the first round of the election. The top-two vote-getters there move
World NewsApril 22, 2017
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Trump tells young immigrants in US illegally to ‘rest easy’
Young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and now here illegally can “rest easy,” President Donald Trump said Friday, telling the “dreamers” they will not be targets for deportation under his immigration policies.Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, said his administration is “not after the dreamers, we are after the criminals.”The president, who took a hard line on immigration as a candidate, vowed anew to fulfill his promise to construct a wall along the U.S.-Me
World NewsApril 22, 2017
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Toll hits 15 in Russia metro attack as victim dies of wounds
SAINT PETERSBURG -- A woman wounded in the Saint Petersburg metro bombing died in hospital Thursday, a local official said, taking the death toll from the attack to 15. Deputy regional governor Anna Mityanina said a woman born in 1960 had died from serious injuries sustained in the April 3 blast which ripped through an underground train. Another 23 people are still in hospital, four of them in serious condition, she said. Authorities say the attack was carried out by 22-year-old suic
WorldApril 21, 2017
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Champs Elysees, Paris's emblematic avenue
The Champs Elysees, scene of the fatal shooting of a police officer Thursday night, is the beating historic heart of Paris, its elegance and prestige earning it the sobriquet of "the most beautiful avenue in the world". The location of Thursday's attack claimed by the Islamic State group just ahead of Sunday's presidential election is all the more shocking as the two-kilometre (1.2-mile) avenue is a magnet for millions of Parisians and tourists alike. Tens of thousands of people daily th
WorldApril 21, 2017
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Trump to visit Philippines, Vietnam in November for regional summits: Pence
WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump will visit the Philippines and Vietnam in November for annual regional summits, Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday.Trump will visit the Philippines for a set of meetings hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Vietnam for a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Pence said during a visit to the ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta. US President Donald Trump (Yonhap)One of the ASEAN meetings, the East Asia Summit, is scheduled
World NewsApril 21, 2017
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[Graphic News] Chicken franchise sales rise in 2016: data
Sales of South Korea‘s major chicken franchises rose last year from the previous year despite the bird flu outbreak and weak economic growth, according to Yonhap News Agency.Kyochon, the biggest franchise, posted a 13-percent increase to 291 billion won ($255 million) last year from 257 billion won a year earlier, according to the statistics compiled by the Financial Supervisory Service.BHC witnessed a whopping 26-percent surge to 232 billion won last year, taking back the status as the country’
World NewsApril 20, 2017
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Pence praises Indonesia’s moderate form of Islam
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- US Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday praised Indonesia’s moderate form of Islam as “an inspiration” at the start of a visit to the Muslim-majority country seen as a bid by his administration to heal divisions with the Islamic world.It came ahead of a visit by Pence to the largest mosque in Indonesia, which has the world’s biggest Muslim population, where he will hold a multi-faith dialogue.His visit represents the most high-profile outreach to Muslims by the Donald Trum
World NewsApril 20, 2017
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French presidential hopefuls wrap up campaigns in tight race
PARIS -- Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen vowed Wednesday to end the fear of terrorism in France and stamp out the “poison” of Islamic radicals, holding her final rally in the southern port city of Marseille, where police arrested two men a day earlier on suspicion of plotting an attack around this weekend’s vote.Independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron, who was at the top of a recent poll, reached out to the Muslim community for solutions. With four days until Sunday’s first
World NewsApril 20, 2017
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Facebook out to read minds
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook wants to read your mind. At least, when it comes to what you’d like to say or type.The social network giant, at its annual developers conference, unveiled Wednesday projects aimed at allowing users to use their minds to type messages or their skin to hear words.“Speech is essentially a compression algorithm, and a lousy one at that,” Facebook Executive and former DARPA Director Regina Dugan told a packed audience at the Silicon Valley event.“That is why we love great wr
World NewsApril 20, 2017
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Another nearby planet found that may be just right for life
WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to have just the right Goldilocks combination for life: Not so hot and not so cold. It is not so far away, either. This new, big, dense planet is rocky, like Earth, and has the right temperatures for water, putting it in the habitable zone for life, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. It is the fifth such life-possible planet outside our solar system revealed in less than a year, but still relatively
World NewsApril 20, 2017
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Fox News dumps Bill O’Reilly
NEW YORK -- Fox News on Wednesday severed its ties with Bill O'Reilly, sacking its biggest star and America’s most-watched cable news anchor over a flood of sexual harassment allegations and crashing advertising sales.It was a humiliating blow to one of the biggest US media names, a veteran broadcaster at Fox News for two decades who counted President Donald Trump among his personal supporters and whose ratings soared in defiance of his alleged abusive behavior towards women.But the departure of
World NewsApril 20, 2017