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South Korea's state-run aid agency has helped some 18,000 out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Bangladesh gain vocational skills and access employment and entrepreneurship opportunities through a five-year initiative conducted in partnership with UNICEF, the agency said Monday. The Korea International C…
The minor opposition Rebuilding Korea Party on Monday unveiled a draft of a motion to impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice Jo Hee-de, while the Democratic Party has begun to gather opinions on Jo's impeachment. The Rebuilding Korea Party urged the ruling Democratic Party of Korea to join forces to propose the motion …
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- The director of the National Museum of Korea issued a...
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- A delegation of Chinese local government officials wi...
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- The United States has expressed an "understanding" of...
Australian officials have been able to meet Hiep Tran at a detention centre in Ho Chi Minh City, where he is being held after disappearing in Cambodia last month.
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to push for the launch of a solid-f...
North Korea’s supreme leader may preach austerity to his people, but he doesn’t seem to have a problem splurging on nautical luxury.
A Johns Hopkins University scientist whose award-winning work suggests that a brief stomach bug could raise the risk of colon cancer has moved to China full time. Wan Fengyi, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has joined Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, according to his new profile o…
The former Bloomberg School of Public Health professor pioneered groundbreaking research into links between a stomach bug and colon cancer.
WSJ reporter stresses importance of cooperation with U.S. and other allies
The chief of South Korea's financial watchdog on Monday pledged to strengthen cybersecurity at local financial institutions through thorough investigations into recent hacking incidents that compromised about 100,000 cases of personal data. "The recent security breaches have caused great concern among the public," F…
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- The chief of South Korea's financial watchdog on Mond...
Government pushes for annual target amid sluggish domestic demand
China's economic growth accelerated in the third quarter, as foreign demand for the country's technological goods largely offset sluggish consumer demand.
China’s economy expanded by 4.5 per cent in the third quarter, keeping it broadly on track to meet this year’s growth target but also maintaining pressure on Beijing to deploy further support to address weak domestic demand. China’s year-on-year economic growth for the first three quarters of the year came in at 4.6…
GDP growth picked up pace from the second quarter’s 4.3 per cent expansion, beating expectations and putting year’s goal in sight.
A young couple in eastern China have gone viral on social media for skipping elaborate wedding traditions and instead holding simple nuptials, spending money only on banquets and cash gifts for their guests. The bride, surnamed Zhu, is from Ningbo in Zhejiang province, while the groom, Wang, is from Taizhou, also in…
The couple’s ‘four no’s’ wedding eliminates traditional mainstays: no bride pickup, no car fleet, no MC, and no videographer.
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's automobile exports fell 5.5 percent in ...
"We can't keep up with attacks using the latest AI if police equipment lags behind," said the National Public Safety Commission chairperson.
CXMT shares fell nearly 8% on Monday after the company released its earnings forecast for the first nine months of 2026.
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will send a delegation to Kazakhstan to e...
Zheng Qinwen’s status as a Prudential Hong Kong Open participant lasted just six days, but the city’s top tennis official does not believe her withdrawal on Sunday has damaged the tournament’s credibility. The Olympic champion had previously pulled out of the Wuhan Open, citing injury and fatigue, but said last week…
China star needs to ‘listen to my body’ after previously saying she was excited to make her debut at Victoria Park tournament.
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has reaffirmed its commitment to deepenin...
DAEGU, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- One South Korean soldier attached to the U.S. Forces ...
Chinese investors have been flocking to dividend stocks, taking shelter from market turmoil spurred by sell-offs in technology companies and K-shaped economic growth in the Asian nation. Two key gauges of the mainland-listed companies with the highest dividend yield ratios outpaced the benchmark heading into October…
Investors are pivoting from volatile tech trades to high-yield equities as low bond yields, uneven economic growth persist.
As Hong Kong hosts the Apec finance ministers’ meeting on Tuesday, this two-part series examines the summit’s significance and its implications for Beijing on the global stage. In part two, Frank Chen explores how the event could help Beijing pitch its philosophies and urge cooperation in digital infrastructure fina…
Analysts say interest in China’s approach bolstered by perceived ‘inadequacies’ in ability of Western doctrines to address challenges.
While Hong Kong has a reputation as one of the world’s safest cities, it has seen its share of gruesome crimes.
BANGKOK, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's economic growth could exceed projecti...
The firm also forecasts a 742 per cent revenue surge year on year.
The boss of one of Ukraine's biggest steel companies says the country has been "bundled together" in measures aimed at curbing cheap imports.
Democratic Party (DP) leader Kim Min-seok formally raised the possibility of imp...
Korea's stock market has suffered a devastating reversal, plunging from record h...
A rising tide of exports can lift an economy's headline figures without opening ...
Robin Xing is chief China economist at Morgan Stanley. A famed economist and Peking University graduate, Xing has a PhD in economics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and previously worked at Goldman Sachs and China International Capital Corp. In his second Open Questions interview, Xing dissects China’s K…
Morgan Stanley’s chief China economist on how a new industrial revolution and demand-centric reflation can sustain China’s growth.
Regulators on guard as rising interest rates risk worsening real estate profitability
The war in the Middle East has disrupted oil and gas supplies, leaving governments to confront energy pressures as they prepare for next month’s Cop31 UN climate conference in Antalya, Turkey. The crisis raises an enduring question: how can climate action strengthen the resilience of an economy? China offers a usefu…
What matters is whether climate goals, industrial policy and financial incentives support the same investments, and if responsibility for implementation is clear.
Retail buyers and sellers welcome longer hours while institutional investors weigh costs and benefits
Move aims to unify handling of information across government agencies
Rising defense spending lifts demand, sparking Japanese capacity push
China is ramping up its presence around Taiwan, in a pattern that Taipei said is designed to 'alter the status quo'.
THE Chinese Embassy in Manila on Sunday dared lawmakers to act on their threat to declare China’s Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan persona non grata, saying it has grown tired of such repeated warnings.
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