All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • (Korea Times / Bae Gun-chan)
    Few ways to improve your odds for record $700M Powerball

    (AP) — The record-breaking $700 million Powerball jackpot is the stuff of dreams, but it all boils down to math. From the huge prize to the enormous odds against winning it, Saturday night’s drawing is a numbers...

    • Posted January 8, 2016
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  • South Korean K-Pop girl group Apink performs during Hallyu Dream Concert in Gyeongju, South Korea Oct. 6, 2013. (Photo: Ahn Young-joon, AP)
    Seoul delivers barrage of K-pop across border to North Korea

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea tries to get under the skin of its archrival with border broadcasts that feature not only criticism of North Korea’s nuclear program, troubled economy and human rights abuses, but also...

    • Posted January 8, 2016
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  • (Baek Z Young concert poster)
    Baek Z Young to hold California concert

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean singer Baek Z Young will hold a solo concert in California in March, her agency announced Friday. Baek will perform her hit songs from the past 16 years at Agua Caliente in...

    • Posted January 7, 2016
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  • John Kerry
    US tells China to end ‘business as usual’ with N. Korea

    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday urged China to end “business as usual” with North Korea after the isolated nation conducted its fourth nuclear test. Kerry told reporters that he spoke by...

    • Posted January 7, 2016
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  • Hospital workers and visitors wearing masks pass by a precaution against the MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, virus at a quarantine tent for people who could be infected with the MERS virus at Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 3, 2015. South Korea on Tuesday confirmed the country's first two deaths from MERS as it fights to contain the spread of a virus that has killed hundreds of people in the Middle East.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Mutation detected in S. Korean MERS virus: govt

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus that spread through South Korea last year underwent a mutation that could have affected its ability to infect people and the fatality rate, the government said Friday....

    • Posted January 7, 2016
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  • Newly signed Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Kenta Maeda, from Japan, is introduced by Andrew Friedman, the team's president of baseball operations, at a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. Maeda, 27, signed an eight-year contract with the baseball club that guarantees the right-hander $25 million, but he can earn over $100 million during the length of the deal if he meets all performance incentives. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    Dodgers finalize $25M deal that could be worth $106M with Japanese pitcher Maeda

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff The Los Angeles Dodgers have finalized a $25 million, eight-year contract with Japanese pitcher Kenta Maeda, a deal that could be worth $106.2 million if he stays healthy. The team...

    • Posted January 7, 2016
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  • Seattle-area police free dozen women from prostitution, most of them from S. Korea

    SEATTLE (AP) — Police in the Seattle area said Thursday they freed a dozen women who were forced into prostitution, arrested 14 people and shut down two websites this week as part of a sex-trafficking investigation. King...

    • Posted January 7, 2016
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