• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
• US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
• High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
• Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect

All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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  Samsung tops global TV market for 10th consecutive year

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Samsung Electronics Co. dominated the global TV market for the 10th consecutive year in 2015, data showed Tuesday, on the back of the strong performance of its high-end models. Samsung took up 27.5 percent...

  • Posted February 29, 2016
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  Critics of Oscars show say diversity talk was too narrow

  NEW YORK (AP) — As Felix Sanchez watched the Academy Awards ceremony, he kept wondering when all the talk of diversity from host Chris Rock and others would itself become more diverse. “I was shocked that Latinos...

  • Posted February 29, 2016
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  [SLATE] Why Chris Rock’s Asian joke was such a disappointment

  – For most of the Oscars, Chris Rock proved himself once again to be a dynamic truth-teller about systemic racism, managing not only to make pointed comedy out of #OscarsSoWhite but to keep it front and center long after...

  • Posted February 29, 2016
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  [LAT] Chris Rock’s Oscars joke about Asian American accountants stirs outrage

  — Despite an Academy Award ceremony focused on addressing issues of diversity in Hollywood, Asian Americans expressed outrage on social media after two jokes that poked at stereotypes. The comments, one by host Chris Rock during...

  • Posted February 29, 2016
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  GOP badly split as Trump, Clinton seek Super Tuesday wins

  VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — On the eve of Super Tuesday’s crucial primaries, a sharp new divide erupted between Republicans who pledge to fall in line behind Donald Trump if he wins their party’s nomination and others who...

  • Posted February 29, 2016
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  Clinton email on North Korea deemed secret, not ‘top secret’

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration settled a long-running dispute over a sensitive email on Hillary Clinton’s private account, as intelligence agencies classified part of an exchange on North Korea’s nuclear program for containing “secret” information, but...

  • Posted February 29, 2016
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  Stocks down for third straight month

  NEW YORK (AP) — Late-day selling sent U.S. stocks to a loss Monday and erased nearly all of the market’s gains for the month. Weak earnings for drug companies pushed health care stocks lower, and energy shares...

  • Posted February 29, 2016
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