All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Tzuyu of the multinational K-pop girl group TWICE (R). (Yonhap)
    TWICE member Tzuyu halts China activities after flag scandal

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Tzuyu of the multinational K-pop group TWICE will temporarily suspend her activities in China after waving the Taiwanese national flag in an online broadcast, her agency said Thursday. The 16-year-old Taiwanese native waved the...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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    N. Korea’s fanfare for H-bomb developers

    (PHOTO NEWS) —  Photos published by North Korea’s official daily Rodong Sinmun on Jan. 14, 2016, accompanied reports that the nation and the people provided devoted hospitality to those who worked on the claimed successful test of...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center at podium, and police chief Charlie Beck, center left, are among officials reporting about crime in the city at a downtown news conference Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Although crimes including murder and rape are up across the board in Los Angeles, the city is still far less violent than it has been in the past, city leaders said, as they released citywide statistics for 2015. (AP Photo/Amanda Myers)
    Crime up across board in LA

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A 12.6 percent rise in the number of crimes from 2014 to 2015 in Los Angeles was driven by increases in gang-related and domestic violence crimes, Mayor Eric Garcetti and police Chief Charlie Beck said today....

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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    AP-WE tv Poll: Most have stayed friends with an ex

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans think making a clean break with an ex helps speed the healing process after a breakup, according to a new Associated Press-WE tv poll. But not all of them are listening to...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • "Don't forget me" poster (Newsis)
    Korean movie ‘Don’t Forget Me’ to be released in US this weekend

    (Yonhap) — “Don’t Forget Me,” a newly released South Korean movie, will hit American screens starting this week, its distributor said Wednesday. The love story featuring actor Jung Woo-sung and actress Kim Ha-neul will be released in...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • Obama State of Union
    Aide: Obama seeks to starve N. Korean leader of attention

    WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un triggered a diplomatic earthquake with his nation’s latest nuclear test a week ago. But it didn’t register when President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech....

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • Park Yu-ha
    Author ordered to compensate comfort women

    By Lee Kyung-min A district court ordered Park Yu-ha, 59, the writer of the controversial book “Comfort Women of the Empire,” to pay 90 million won (About $74,000) in compensation to nine survivors of sexual slavery under...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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