All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je)
    Park to receive 3.4 pct raise

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Cabinet raised President Park Geun-hye’s annual salary by more than 3 percent in a wage hike that also affected all other civic servants across South Korea, officials said Tuesday. Park is set to...

    • Posted January 5, 2016
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  • Residents Trina Gonzalez, left, and Todd Peterson stockpile sandbags to protect their homes from the rain in Glendora, Calif., Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. After all the talk, El Nino storms have finally lined up over the Pacific and started soaking drought-parched California with rain expected to last for most of the next two weeks, forecasters said Monday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    California braces for series of El Nino storms

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After all the talk, El Niño storms have finally lined up over the Pacific and started soaking drought-parched California with rain expected to last for most of the next two weeks, forecasters said...

    • Posted January 5, 2016
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  • A scene from "Reply 1988" (Korea Times file)
    [BloombergBusiness] 1980s boom years living on in Korea’s outperforming media stocks

      — While Korean steel mills and ship yards struggled to stay in business in 2015, the nation’s media companies were busy emulating the boom years of the 1980s — literally. Shares of CJ E&M,...

    • Posted January 5, 2016
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  • San Diego Chargers have officially filed to move to Los Angeles. (AP-file)
    Chargers file for relocation to Los Angeles suburb of Carson

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Chargers have filed for relocation to the Los Angeles suburb of Carson. The Chargers, who have played in San Diego for 55 seasons, announced the filing Monday night. In a...

    • Posted January 4, 2016
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  • (Newsis)
    S. Korean medicine exports triple in 10 years

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean medicine exports jumped threefold in the last 10 years as local pharmaceutical companies have become more competitive on the global stage, government data showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Food and...

    • Posted January 4, 2016
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  • Seungri (Newsis)
    BigBang’s Seungri files $1.7 million fraud charges against female colleague

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Seungri of the boy band BigBang has filed a complaint with the prosecutors over an alleged fraud committed by his colleague that caused him losses of 2 billion won (US$1.7 million), his agency said...

    • Posted January 4, 2016
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  • Michael Linde La Canada High 11th Grade
    Nature’s janitors in danger

    The vulture, as a scavenger of corpses and remains, has long been maligned as a symbol of greed and rapaciousness, and is closely associated with death, decay, and taint. The first images that come to mind when...

    • Posted January 4, 2016
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