All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • A Chinese stock investor monitors stock prices at a brokerage house in Nantong in eastern China's Jiangsu province Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. China plans to restrict stock sales by large shareholders once a ban imposed in July to stop a slide in prices is lifted this week. (Chinatopix via AP)
    As the rest of the world dumps Chinese stocks, some wade in

    NEW YORK (AP) — While the rest of the world scrambles to get out of the crumbling Chinese stock market, a trickle of investors is heading straight into the wreckage. Managers of Chinese stock mutual funds have...

    • Posted January 28, 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)
    UN health chief: Zika virus is ‘spreading explosively’

    GENEVA (AP) — Declaring that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively,” the World Health Organization announced it will hold an emergency meeting of independent experts Monday to decide if the outbreak should be declared an international health...

    • Posted January 28, 2016
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  • In this July 17, 2015 file photo, employees walk past a logo of Samsung Group at the head office of Samsung C&T Corp. in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's financial regulator said Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 it has launched an investigation into possible insider trading by Samsung executives related to a contentious takeover deal. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
    Samsung warns of tough 2016 after 4Q profit sinks

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics reported Thursday a bigger-than-expected decline in fourth quarter earnings as its mainstay smartphone and semiconductor businesses suffer amid weakening global demand for consumer electronics. The South Korean company also warned...

    • Posted January 27, 2016
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  • Yonhap
    Hyeri conflicted about ‘Reply 1988′ ending also

    Girls’ Day member Hyeri, who played the role of Sung Deok-sun on the tvN hit drama “Reply 1988,” says she also baffled by the show’s somewhat controversial ending. Spoiler alert: It’s not Jung-hwan, but Taek, who had been somewhat of a peripheral...

    • Posted January 27, 2016
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  • NK, Missiles
    N. Korea could launch long-range missile in a week: Japanese report

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — North Korea could conduct a long-range missile launch as early as in a week, a Japanese news report said Wednesday, in what would be serious defiance against the international community just...

    • Posted January 27, 2016
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    S. Korea to commercialize drone delivery service by 2020

    By Choi Sung-jin As early as 2020, South Korea will be able to commercialize delivery services using drones, government officials said. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Infrastructure said Tuesday that central and local governments, with the...

    • Posted January 27, 2016
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  • A Coast Guard rescuer tries to enter a capsized Chinese fishing boat off South Korea's southwestern coast on Jan. 27, 2016, to save crew members trapped inside. The vessel overturned hile it was being towed by another Chinese fishing boat. There were 10 fishermen aboard the boat. (Photo courtesy of West Sea Fisheries Management Service) (Yonhap)
    Five Chinese fishermen rescued from capsized boat

    SHINAN, South Korea (Yonhap) — Five Chinese fishermen have been rescued from their boat that capsized in the waters off South Korea’s southwestern coast Wednesday, while one died and four others went missing, the coast guard said....

    • Posted January 27, 2016
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