Foreign Minister Cho Hyun on Tuesday called for deeper cooperation with Central Asia, highlighting the potential to build a stronger partnership in strategic resources, supply chains, artificial intelligence and other future-oriented fields.
Falling house prices could wipe as much as $1.8 billion from the Victorian budget this year alone as banks and real estate experts predict a downturn worse than Treasury’s forecast in May.
Since 2018, I have covered South Korea’s economic and financial landscape, with experience spanning the economy, banking, financial markets and securities industry.My current beat focuses on Korea’s major chaebol groups and technology industry, including Samsung, SK and LG, as well as global technology companies ope…
Serbia’s student movement has submitted its “Student List – Students Win” to the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK), after thousands of supporters marched through central Belgrade to the commission’s headquarters. Students carried boxes of signatures gathered in recent days in a bid to qualify for the ballot. The m…
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook called Tuesday for a strategic supply chain with Kazakhstan encompassing energy and critical minerals during a business roundtable meeting held on the sidelines of the first summit between Korea and Central Asian nations.
MANILA, Philippines — Despite reported incidents of violence and compromised ballots, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday expressed delight as the first Bangsamoro parliamentary elections registered over 82 percent of total voters’ turnout.
Federal police found the 22-year-old had obtained and distributed about 50 child abuse material files over two years. (ABC News: ABC News: Adriane Reardon)
Tensions flared at a western Sydney council meeting on Monday night after a new business group representing a popular Indian eat street in Harris Park received a $45,000 state government grant to run a shuttle bus between Parramatta and the restaurant strip.
The Iranian foreign minister held a phone call with Lebanese parliament speaker to discuss regional developments and the need for greater coordination against "Israeli aggression and warmongering", according to Iran’s Press TV
Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts i…
“Activists” living more than 125 kilometres from proposed mining projects will be blocked from having their say on the plans, under new laws that the Queensland government says are needed to stop delays.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield climbed to its highest level since 2007 on Tuesday as a sell-off in U.S. government debt deepened ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest-rate decision.
No government in the world is ready for the changes artificial intelligence will bring to society, Bill Gates said in an interview with Reuters, as he warned of the risks ahead.
The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to let the US Postal Service enforce a rule targeting mail-in ballots, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump's effort to restrict voting by mail ahead of November's midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
The pothole believed to be responsible for the death of a 71-year-old man has been repaired, Premier Ben Carroll said amid mounting complaints about the state of Victoria’s roads.
‘There will be indicators which are binding and indicators which are anticipatory … There are things we must do and they are binding on the government particularly,’ city leader says
‘There will be indicators which are binding and indicators which are anticipatory … There are things we must do and they are binding on the government particularly,’ city leader says
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- Labor Minister Kim Young-hoon on Tuesday proposed a "one-point social dialogue" to discuss contentious issues surrounding an envisioned special bill that would significantly relax labor regulations, including the 52-hour workweek limit, in mega-scale semiconductor clusters.
The future of a contentious green power transmission line in the state’s west is under a cloud, with Premier Ben Carroll promising to review the project and delaying land acquisition until next year.
Vietjet and Thales exchange agreements on aircraft maintenance and digital aviation at the Elysee Palace in Paris, witnessed by Vietnam's To Lam, second from left, and French President Emmanuel Macron, far right. (Vietnam News Agency)
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- The National Assembly began confirmation hearings for three Cabinet posts Tuesday, with rival parties locking horns over illegal lobbying allegations involving the justice minister nominee.
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has received 98.3 percent of expected election returns (ERs) for the first Bangsamoro Parliamentary elections as of Tuesday morning.
Iranian strikes have damaged and destroyed "hundreds of buildings and structures" at U.S. bases in the Middle East, as well as "dozens" of U.S. aircraft as of the end of June, according to a government report.
A Labor senator has sacked a former Play School star just a few months into his role as a political staffer after old tweets resurfaced in which he used the N-word and likened a Liberal frontbencher to a notorious Nazi collaborator.
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has received 98.4 percent of expected election returns (ERs) for the first Bangsamoro Parliamentary elections as of Tuesday morning, with the poll body awaiting ERs from certain precincts in Maluso, Basilan.
MANILA, Philippines – The Bangsamoro Federalist Party (BFP) remained the top regional parliamentary political party in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections, followed by the United Bangsamoro Justice Party (UBJP) according to the data from the Parish Pastoral Council for…
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- The following is the full text of an op-ed written by Foreign Minister Cho Hyun for Yonhap News Agency ahead of the first South Korea-Central Asia Summit.
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- Foreign Minister Cho Hyun on Tuesday called for deeper cooperation with Central Asia, highlighting the potential to build a stronger partnership in strategic resources, supply chains, artificial intelligence (AI) and other future-oriented fields.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump's bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting already underway.
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks traded flat late Tuesday morning as investors sat on the sidelines ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's rate-setting meeting and united warnings from artificial intelligence (AI) industry executives who have called for a slowdown in the pace of development.