All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Spike Lee attends the premiere of "Chi-Raq" at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
    Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees

    NEW YORK (AP) — Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars’ second straight year of all-white acting nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday that they will...

    • Posted January 18, 2016
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  • Tzuyu's apology figures prominently in Taiwan elections
    K-pop singer Tzuyu’s apology figures prominently in Taiwan elections

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Tzuyu of the multinational K-pop girl group TWICE and her agency chief have apologized for her waving of a Taiwanese flag that sparked controversy during the sensitive time of Taiwan’s presidential elections. The Taiwanese...

    • Posted January 16, 2016
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  • The North's leader made the H-bomb claims last week, saying the country has become a "powerful nuclear weapons state." (Yonhap)
    N. Korea demands peace treaty for stopping nuke tests

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing a peace treaty with the U.S. and a stop to annual military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea....

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. On Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, U.S. health officials are telling pregnant women to avoid travel to Latin America and Caribbean countries with outbreaks of a tropical illness linked to birth defects. The Zika virus is spread through mosquito bites from Aedes aegypti and causes only a mild illness in most people. But there’s been mounting evidence linking the virus to a surge of a rare birth defect in Brazil. (James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)
    Pregnant women told to avoid countries with Zika outbreaks

    NEW YORK (AP) — Pregnant women should avoid traveling to Latin America and Caribbean countries that have outbreaks of a tropical illness linked to birth defects, health officials said Friday. The illness is caused by the Zika...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • (Concert poster)
    March Madness: ‘Reply 1988′ concert tickets go on sale

    Fans of TV drama “Reply 1988″ can get up close to its stars at a concert on March 5 in Seoul. Main actress Hyeri, who plays Deok-sun in the drama about the year 1988, will perform with...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • Arthur Patterson, the suspect of a 1997 murder in Itaewon, arrives at Incheon International Airport, Wednesday, after he had been extradited to Korea 16 years after he fled to the U.S. (Yonhap)
    20-year jail term sought for 1997 ‘Itaewon murder’ suspect

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Prosecutors on Friday demanded 20 years in jail for a U.S. citizen charged with slaying a Korean man nearly two decades ago. Arthur Patterson, who was 17 at the time, is accused of stabbing...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • (Yonhap file)
    US court dismisses ‘nut-rage’ lawsuit

    By Jhoo Dong-chan A New York court has dismissed a suit filed by “nut rage” incident victim Park Chang-jin against former Korean Air heiress and Executive Vice President Heather Cho (Korean name – Cho Hyun-ah), sources said Friday....

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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