All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • South Korean minor league player Lee Hak-ju (Yonhap)
    Tampa Bay Rays designate S. Korean prospect Lee Hak-ju for assignment

    South Korean shortstop prospect Lee Hak-ju has been designated for assignment by the Tampa Bay Rays to make room for another player on their 40-man roster on Tuesday. That means the Rays have 10 days to trade, waive...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • feature cornell
    Where should I go to college? Student stories, Cornell University

    By Elizabeth Han Wang I went to a college preparatory private high school in Los Angeles during the late 90s where the norm was to go to an elite college on the east coast. If someone stayed...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • Trader Michael Milano works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. More signs of weakness in China's economy are sending global stock markets sharply lower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    US stocks plunge again after bleak Chinese manufacturing report

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks plunged again Tuesday, continuing a rocky ride for Wall Street, after an economic report out of China rekindled fears that the world’s second-largest economy is slowing more than previously anticipated. The sell-off...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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    TSA agent charged with molesting young Korean woman at NYC airport

    NEW YORK (AP) — A former federal transportation security agent remained held on $3,000 bail Saturday after being charged with luring a 21-year-old Korean exchange student going to school in Utah into a bathroom at a New...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • fotb promo
    Randall Park and an unexpected guest welcome Muppets to ABC

    ABC’s Asian American family sitcom “Fresh Off The Boat” is coming back for a second season. To help promote the new episodes, the studio had the show’s actor Randall Park share the spotlight with Kermit from “The...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • summit
    Summits may give Park leverage over NK, Japan

    Possibility grows for a trilateral meeting of Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo By Kang Seung-woo President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing today, the first in a series of upcoming talks expected to...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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  • Brandon A. Lee
    Korean Canadian appointed SF consul general

    Brandon A. Lee, a second-generation Korean Canadian, has been named Consul General of the Canadian office in San Francisco. Lee, 39, is a Toronto native who studied economics at Hamilton McMaster University before being scouted as a...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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