TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A Taiwanese flight carrying 58 people turned on its side in midair, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a shallow river Wednesday shortly after taking off from Taipei, killing at least 19 people and leaving 24 missing, officials and media reports said.More than half of the passengers aboard TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 were from China and the death toll was expected to rise as rescue crews cleared the mostly submerged fuselage in the Keelung River. Teams in rub

World News Feb. 4, 2015

South Korea's foreign minister plans to hold talks with his U.S. counterpart in Germany this weekend to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons program and other bilateral issues, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, which kicks off Friday for three days, the ministry said.Yun will fly to Germany on Thursday for a four-day stay, which includes a planned

Foreign Affairs Feb. 4, 2015

Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea's largest flag carrier, said Tuesday it will sell more than 500 billion won ($455 million) worth of shares to raise money needed to repay debt.The company's board of directors decided to sell 14,164,306 shares at 35,300 won apiece, it said in a regulatory filing.The share offering will increase the number of the company's outstanding shares to 73,950,538.Korean Air said the raised money will be used to repay debts and improve its financial status."This will help

Industry Jan. 6, 2015

BOSTON (AP) -- Two women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual offenses decades ago have joined a defamation lawsuit, contending the comedian publicly branded them as liars through statements by his representatives.The amended complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, in western Massachusetts, where Cosby has a home in Shelburne Falls.Cosby is the only defendant in the lawsuit, originally filed last month by Tamara Green, who said he drugged and assaulted her in the 1970s. The tw

World News Jan. 6, 2015

FRESNO, California (AP) -- California's high-speed rail project reaches a milestone Tuesday as officials mark the start of work on the first U.S. bullet train, which is designed to whisk travelers at 200 mph (320 kph) between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours.The ceremony in Fresno comes amid challenges from Central Valley farmers and communities in the train's path who have sued to block it and from Republican members of Congress who vow to cut funding for the $68 billion p

World News Jan. 6, 2015

Prosecutors have decided to deport a Korean-American woman accused of making pro-North Korea remarks at a series of talk shows she hosted in South Korea, prosecution sources said Tuesday.Shin Eun-mi, 54, allegedly made comments sympathetic to Pyongyang alongside her South Korean co-host Hwang Sun at on-stage talk shows they hosted from November to December last year. Local conservative groups filed a complaint with police in November, accusing them violating of Seoul's National Security Law.In S

Social Affairs Jan. 6, 2015

서울지방경찰청은 최근 금융사고가 발생한 하나대투증권에 대한 내사에 착수했다. 이 증권사 고객의 돈이 타인의 계좌로 무단 이체된 혐의다.11일 경찰과 금융당국에 따르면 하나대투증권 고객 ㄱ씨가 보유한 주식이 본인도 모르는 사이에 전량 매도됐다. 공인인증서가 ㄱ씨의 동의없이 재발급 됐고 해커는 ㄱ씨 몰래 1천만원 상당의 주식을 매도했다.이어 대포통장계좌를 통해 매도 후의 예수금을 인출해간 것으로 알려졌다.하나대투증권은 또 ㄱ씨의 신원확인을 제대로 하지 않은 채 주식을 담보로 대출을 해 준 혐의를 받고 있다. ㄱ씨가 아닌 타인이 대출승인을 받은 것이다.이 증권사는 수사경과 및 금융감독원의 조처를 지켜본 뒤 보상 여부를 검토하겠다는 입장을 밝혔다.<코리아헤럴드 김연세 기자> (kys@heraldcorp.com)

한국어판 Dec. 11, 2014

Fifty workers were injured after a lethal chemical was leaked at a plating factory in the southeastern city of Daegu on Wednesday, authorities said.Hypochlorite was leaked at the Yeongnam Metal Co. plating factory at around 12:23 p.m., when some workers mistakenly poured the chemical from a truck into a tank filled with sulfuric acid, which produced toxic gas, according to firefighting authorities and company officials.A total of 50 workers there suffered injuries, and were taken to nearby hospi

Social Affairs Dec. 10, 2014

North Korea would possess some 20 nuclear bombs by 2016, and it could conduct several rounds of detonation tests to miniaturize nuclear warheads, a renowned U.S. nuclear scientist said Wednesday."North Korea is presumed to have the capability of producing some four nuclear bombs per year, and it appears that the North will possess some 20 nuclear bombs by 2016," Siegfried Hecker, a research professor at Stanford University who visited the North's Yongbyon nuclear complex in 2010, was quoted as s

North Korea Dec. 10, 2014

Chinese travel firms specializing in tours to North Korea have been bearing the brunt of dwindling revenues as the North continues to ban all foreigners from visiting the country due to fears over the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, according to a Chinese state media report on Saturday.Reclusive North Korea began barring foreign tourists from entering the country on Oct. 23 and required all foreigners visiting the North to be put under quarantine for 21 days as a precaution against the spread

North Korea Dec. 6, 2014

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police opened an investigation on Friday into a woman's claims that Bill Cosby molested her when she was 15 years old, a department spokeswoman said.The investigation was opened after Judy Huth, who is suing Cosby for sexual battery, met with Los Angeles police detectives for 90 minutes.Los Angeles Police Officer Jane Kim said the department opened its investigation after the meeting.Huth's civil suit claims Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bedroom

World News Dec. 6, 2014

North Korea has removed the legal limit for wages paid to its workers at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex, the North's propaganda site said Saturday, a move that could cause tension with South Korea, which co-runs the industrial park with the reclusive regime.The North revised the Act on Gaeseong Complex laborers late last month, scrapping the upper ceiling for workers' wages, according to Uriminzokkiri, one of the country's major propaganda sites.The site also said that raises will be set every

North Korea Dec. 6, 2014