All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • PM, Prime Minister, Han Myung-sook
    Top court upholds 2-yr sentence for former Prime Minister

    SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Yonhap) – Seoul’s top court Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling on former Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook, 71, sentencing her to two years behind bars for accepting bribes as political funds from the head...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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    Girls’ Generation to make cameo on US show

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean K-pop group Girls’ Generation will play a cameo role in “Better Late Than Never,” an upcoming travel reality show on American TV channel NBC, its management agency said Thursday. The show, whose...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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  • sailing-rio
    S. Korean surfer infected with virus in Rio Olympic sailing venue

    SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Yonhap) — A South Korean wind surfer has been hospitalized with an apparent viral infection after competing in waters scheduled to host sailing events at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games next year, a...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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  • In this May 1, 2014 photo, irrigation water runs along the dried-up ditch between the rice farms to provide water for the rice fields in Richvale, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    Report: Groundwater pumping in California has land sinking

    FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Vast areas of California’s Central Valley are sinking faster than in the past as massive amounts of groundwater are pumped during the historic drought, state officials said Wednesday, citing new research by NASA...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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  • This undated photo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows the tip of an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) duodenoscope, attached to a long tube, not shown. (AP)
    Antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ found again at California hospital

    PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A Pasadena hospital says some patients have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant “superbug” that’s been linked to a widely used medical scope. Huntington Memorial Hospital said Wednesday that several patients who had procedures...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    Good news: A widow receives a letter from deceased husband through ‘slow mailbox’

    A widow received a letter from her recently deceased husband through a resort in South Korea. According to High1 Resort Tuesday, a letter from a man in his 70s written in October last year was delivered to...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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  • Soldiers prepare along the Korean DMZ. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea flexing muscles at border: source

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea’s military is ratcheting up its combat readiness posture along the border with front-line fortifications such as opening up its weapons portholes and intensifying artillery firing drills, a military source said Wednesday. “The...

    • Posted August 19, 2015
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