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Toddler youngest in world to get lab-made windpipe
A 2-year-old born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells. She's the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the ...
Most South Koreans leave North Korean factory
Most South Koreans who had remained at an industrial park in North Korea had returned home by early Tuesday morning, officials said, leaving a final ...
Pyongyang glitters but most of NKorea still dark
The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon. Glossy new construction downtown has altered the Pyongyang ...
Rumford wins playoff to take Ballantine's title
Australia's Brett Rumford eagled the first hole of a three-way playoff to win the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea on Sunday. Rumford was ...
NKorea charges US man in plot to overthrow regime
North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow ...
Alex Noren leads by 1 at Ballantine's Championship
Alex Noren of Sweden leads by one stroke at the Ballantine's Championship after shooting a 3-under 69 in the third round following his earlier 67 in ...
Majority of SKoreans in NKorean factory to return
Roughly three quarters of the 175 South Koreans still at a shuttered factory park in North Korea are scheduled to return Saturday after Seoul decided ...
Samsung profit at record high on smartphone boost
Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its first quarter profit jumped to a record high as smartphone sales remained strong despite the April launch of ...
North Korea ignores Seoul deadline for talks
South Korea says Pyongyang has ignored Seoul's deadline for responding to a demand for talks on a shuttered inter-Korean factory park.
A look at North Korea's military capabilities
North Korea's military, founded 81 years ago Thursday, is older than the country itself. It began as an anti-Japanese militia and is now the heart of ...
Hyundai Motor logs 15 percent drop in 1Q profit
Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday its first quarter net profit fell 15 percent as a labor dispute slowed car production in South Korea. The country's ...
SKorea's economic growth hits 2-year high in 1Q
South Korea's economy expanded at the fastest level in two years in the first quarter as capital expenditure and exports turned higher, the central ...
US, SKorea extend nuclear agreement
The U.S. and South Korea are extending for two years their current civilian nuclear agreement and postponing a contentious decision on whether Seoul ...
SK Hynix posts $159M profit as chip prices rise
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. on Wednesday reported its third consecutive quarterly profit as prices for PC memory chips rose. Its net profit ...
LG Electronics' profit plunges on slow TV sales
LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday its first quarter earnings shrank to less than one tenth of the year-earlier quarter as its TV business languished, ...
South Korean president to address Congress
House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says he will invite South Korean President Park Geun-hye (goon-hay) to address a joint meeting of Congress on ...
Japan war shrine reflects ruling party nationalism
Visits by Cabinet ministers and lawmakers to a shrine honoring Japan's war dead, including 14 World War II leaders convicted of atrocities, signal ...
NKorea vows to bolster nuclear arms over US report
North Korea is vowing to bolster its nuclear program in response to a U.S. State Department report accusing Pyongyang of human rights abuses.
Japan war shrine visits anger China, South Korea
Dozens of Japanese lawmakers paid homage at a national war shrine Tuesday morning, risking more anger from neighbors South Korea and China over visits ...
China says new North Korea nuclear test possible
China's top general said a fourth North Korean nuclear weapons test is a possibility that underscores the need for fresh talks between Pyongyang and ...
Suzann Pettersen maintains lead in Hawaii
Suzann Pettersen shot a 4-under 68 on Friday at wind-swept Ko Olina to maintain a one-stroke lead after the third round of the LPGA Lotte Championship
Young NKoreans train to seek 'revenge on US'
North Korea's newest batch of future soldiers — scrawny 11-year-olds with freshly shaved heads — punch the air as they practice taekwondo on the ...
Suzann Pettersen takes lead in windy Hawaii
Suzann Pettersen rebounded from her lone bogey with three back-nine birdies Thursday at wind-swept Ko Olina to take the second-round lead in the LPGA ...
South Koreans hope to return to Kaesong factories
The South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in the Kaesong industrial complex, a symbol of economic ...