All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • 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 enters 4th year in office

    By Kang Seung-woo President Park Geun-hye has done well in dealing with diplomatic and security affairs during her three years in office, but has shown a disappointing performance in unifying the nation on contentious issues, analysts said...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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    UN diplomats: US and China agree on new N. Korea sanctions

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and China have reached agreement on a U.N. resolution that would impose tougher sanctions on North Korea as punishment for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch, U.N. diplomats said...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • FILE - This Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 file photo shows single dosage syringes of the Fluarix quadrivalent influenza virus vaccine in New York. According to numbers presented at a medical meeting in Atlanta on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, the flu vaccine is doing a better job in 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
    Flu vaccine more effective this year; milder season so far

    NEW YORK (AP) — The flu vaccine is doing a better job this year. Preliminary data suggest it is 59 percent effective. That’s a big improvement from last winter’s nasty flu season when the vaccine was less...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • Rep. Eun Soo-mi
    Opposition lawmaker breaks record for longest filibuster

    SEOUL (Yonhap) An opposition lawmaker set the record for the longest filibuster in Korean history Wednesday, delivering a 10 hour and 18 minute address on the parliamentary floor to block the passage of an anti-terrorism bill. Rep....

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • South Korean cargo trucks wait to head to the North Korean city of Kaesong as a South Korean Army patrols at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. South Korea said Wednesday that it will shut down a joint industrial park with North Korea in response to its recent rocket launch, accusing the North of using hard currency from the park to develop its nuclear and missile programs. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea to extend $445M in loans to Kaesong firms

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The South Korean government said Thursday that it will extend special low-interest loans worth 550 billion won (US$445 million) to firms based in a jointly run industrial park in a North Korean border town...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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    Ryu Hyun-jin throws KBBQ party for his ‘baseball brothers’

    Los Angeles Dodgers’ Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin invited his fellow Korean baseball players over for some Korean BBQ and posted a photo of the gathering on his Instagram account Tuesday. He titled it — “KBBQ at home...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • FILE - In this Friday, May 29, 2015 file photo, FIFA president Sepp Blatter is greeted by UEFA President Michel Platini, right, after Blatters re-election as president at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been banned for 8 years, the FIFA ethics committee said Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. (Patrick B. Kraemer/Keystone via AP, File)
    FIFA reduces bans for Blatter, Platini from 8 to 6 years

    ZURICH (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini had their bans from soccer reduced from eight years to six by FIFA’s appeal body on Wednesday, two days before the sport’s ruling body tries to turn the page...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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