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Analysis: Asia a big focus for next US president
Changes could be in store for U.S.-Asian relations, but that has little to do with the presidential race. Lost in the backbiting between President ...
Samsung logs record high profit in 3Q
Strong sales of Galaxy phones propelled Samsung's quarterly profit to a record high, but its shares dropped Friday on the prospect its growth will ...
Asia stocks fall on weaker US housing data
Asian stock markets fell Friday after the latest data on U.S. housing dimmed hopes of improvement in an industry that is crucial to recovery in the ...
Strikes dent Hyundai Motor's 3Q profit
Hyundai Motor Co. suffered a fall in third-quarter profit from the previous quarter after strikes dented vehicle production, but its stock jumped ...
Asia stocks rise on continued optimism over China
Asian stock markets mostly rose Thursday as investors kept their sights on a possible improvement in China's economy. A key survey of Chinese ...
US, SKorea ready to respond to NKorea provocation
The U.S. defense chief expressed relief Wednesday that North Korea has not followed through on a threat to launch a military strike in response to ...
LG Electronics post profit on smartphone sales
South Korean consumer electronics maker LG Electronics Inc. reported a third straight quarterly profit on Wednesday as sales of smartphones designed ...
Samsung sees 10 percent growth in PC sales
Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it expects 10 percent growth in PC sales by volume this year as it bets on new PCs that are hybrids of laptops ...
Reading 'Gone with the Wind' in Pyongyang
The former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ...
Chipmaker SK Hynix logs small profit on FX gain
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix reported a small net profit in the third quarter Wednesday thanks to a foreign exchange gain that partly offset lower ...
Iraq, South Korea's KOGAS ink deal on pipelines
Iraq on Tuesday inked a multi-million dollar deal with South Korea's KOGAS that will set in motion the building of two key gas pipelines in the ...
South Korean activists float leaflets into NKorea
South Korean activists floated balloons carrying tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea, eluding police who had disrupted an ...
Yahoo to exit South Korea by end of year
Yahoo Inc. said it will close its South Korean web portal and an Internet advertising business, cutting its losses in a market where it has struggled ...
NKorea threatens to attack SKorea over leaflets
North Korea's military threatened Friday to strike a South Korean border area where anti-Pyongyang activists plan to launch leaflets from balloons ...
SKorea lifts ban on graphic Marquis de Sade novel
It's been almost two centuries since his death, yet French writer the Marquis de Sade has lost none of his ability to trigger moral debate. In Asia, ...
'League of Legends' crowns $1M champions
It had all the makings of an Olympic event: an indoor arena, play-by-play announcers, 7,000 enthusiastic fans, uniformed competitors from across the ...
Much of odd weapons cache on plane was permissible
In an age when air travelers grudgingly surrender bottled water at security checkpoints, the most striking aspect of the arrest of a passenger wearing ...
SKorea cuts key rate, lowers growth forecasts
South Korea's central bank cut its key interest rate Thursday for the second time this year and slashed growth forecasts as Asia's fourth-largest ...
Asia stocks fall after Spain gets downgrade
Asian stock markets fell Thursday after Spain, the fourth-largest euro economy, was slapped with a two-notch credit downgrade and the U.S.
Man with smoke grenade was searched in SKorea
South Korean security officials screened a man with a bulletproof vest before he got on a flight to Los Angeles, but a banned smoke grenade made it ...
NKorea says South, US are within its missile range
North Korea on Tuesday warned that the U.S. mainland is within range of its missiles and said that Washington's recent agreement to let Seoul possess ...
SKorea to have longer-range missiles under US pact
South Korea will be able to possess longer-range missiles capable of hitting all of North Korea under a new agreement with the United States that is ...
From North Korea's Oz to its forgotten cities
From here, Pyongyang can seem like a dream. At what passes for rush hour on a Wednesday morning, there are few sounds in Kaesong's main traffic circle ...
NKorean soldier defects to SKorea across border
A North Korean soldier killed two of his superiors Saturday and defected to South Korea across the countries' heavily armed border in a rare crossing ...
Samsung sees quarterly earnings at new high
Samsung Electronics Co. forecast another record quarterly operating profit, likely driven by strong sales of high-end smartphones that offset weak ...