All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • Minnesota Twins' Park Byung-ho, of South Korea, follows the flight of his home run off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Gavin Floyd during the second inning of a spring training baseball game Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Dunedin, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
    Park Byung ho-mer No. 2!

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff There’s no doubt about his power. Minnesota Twin’s Korean slugger Park Byung-ho smacked his second home run of the preseason Tuesday. Park, who racked up 105 home runs in the...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • People watch a live television program airing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's New Year's press conference at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, Monday, an. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Park calls for parliamentary passage of bill on telemedicine

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye called on parliament Tuesday to approve a bill that would allow doctors to see patients and provide treatment through the Internet. Telemedicine is designed to provide quality health care for those...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • In this Jan. 18, 2016 photo, a researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Aedes aegypti is a vector for transmitting the Zika virus. The Brazilian government announced it will direct funds to a biomedical research center to help develop a vaccine against the Zika virus linked to brain damage in babies. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
    WHO: Sexual transmission of Zika more common than thought

    GENEVA (AP) — Sexual transmission of the Zika virus is more common than previously thought, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, citing reports from several countries. After a meeting of its emergency committee on Tuesday, the U.N....

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • Lee Suk-joon, chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, holds a press conference at the government complex in Seoul on March 8, 2016, to announce South Korea's own fresh sanctions on North Korea. Under the punitive measures, 38 North Korean officials and two foreigners, as well as 30 organizations, including 24 based in Pyongyang, have been barred from trading with South Korean companies and financial institutions. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea unveils own anti-N. Korea sanctions

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea unveiled a slew of its own punitive measures against Pyongyang Tuesday, including blacklisting scores of North Koreans and entities suspected to be linked to the North’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • A South Korean aims his machine gun during an anti-terror exercise as part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. The U.S.-South Korean military exercises start Monday and involving tens of thousands of troops are described by the allies as routine and defensive, but Pyongyang sees them as invasion preparation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Talk of ‘beheading’ strike option heightens Koreas tension

    TOKYO (AP) — Massive joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises are a spring ritual on the Korean Peninsula guaranteed to draw a lot of threat-laced venom from Pyongyang. This time, not only are the war games the biggest...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • Perhaps Kim Hyun-soo, right, should have taken the day off on Monday just like Park Byung-ho. (Yonhap)
    Orioles’ Kim Hyun-soo yet to get on base after six games

    Baltimore Orioles’ Korean outfielder Kim Hyun-soo is just getting in deeper and deeper. Not only has he gone now 18 at-bats over six games without getting a hit, he has yet to get on base. Kim was...

    • Posted March 7, 2016
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    Automatic voter registration takes hold on West Coast

    SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In a typical month, 2,000 people register to vote in Oregon. In the first six days of this year, more than 4,300 joined the voter rolls under a new initiative that automatically signs...

    • Posted March 7, 2016
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