All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-Min, centre left, celebrates scoring his side's second goal of the game with teammate Kieran Trippier, during the English Premier League match between Watford and Tottenham Hotspur, at Vicarage Road, in Watford, England, Monday Dec. 28, 2015. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)
    Son of a gun! Last-minute goal lifts Tottenham to 2-1 win over Watford

    WATFORD, ENGLAND (AP) — Son Heung-min scored a last-minute goal as Tottenham provisionally moved up to third in the English Premier League on Monday with a 2-1 win at Watford. It was Son’s second league goal this...

    • Posted December 28, 2015
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  • abe
    ‘Abe ordered sex slavery settlement by end of year’

    By Kim Se-jeong Korea and Japan are likely to hold a meeting of foreign ministers next week to discuss the issue of sex slavery of Korean women by Japan before and during World War II. The expectations...

    • Posted December 24, 2015
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  • Philippines
    S. Korea to dispatch police to Philippines over murder of Korean

    HANOI/SEOUL (Yonhap) — Police said Monday they will send four officials to the Philippines to investigate a recent shooting death of a South Korean man, the first move to probe into overseas crimes targeting Korean nationals. A...

    • Posted December 21, 2015
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  • Parents take their children return home from school early Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. All schools in the vast Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest, have been ordered closed due to an electronic threat Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
    All Los Angeles Unified schools closed due to ‘credible threat’

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Responding to an “electronic threat” that may have been emailed to the district from overseas, all Los Angeles Unified School District campuses were closed today and a massive effort began to search the roughly 900 schools...

    • Posted December 15, 2015
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  • The Korean American Presbyterian Church of Queens in New York handed out fruit baskets to local shelters and organizations in time for the holidays Thursday.
    NY Korean American community begins holiday sharing

    By The Korea Times New York staff The New York Korean American community is joining in on end-of-the-year charity efforts. The Korean American Presbyterian Church of Queens delivered 150 fruit baskets to about 20 local fire stations,...

    • Posted December 14, 2015
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  • A police officer stands guard Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo following an explosion in its public restroom. Police in Tokyo have arrested a South Korean man suspected of causing an explosion last month at the controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead. The 27-year-old Jeon Chang-han was arrested Wednesday, Dec. 9 after he returned to Tokyo from South Korea for voluntary questioning, police officials said. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
    Korean arrested in Japan on suspicions of Yasukuni bombing

    TOKYO/SEOUL (Yonhap) — Japanese police arrested a South Korean man for a suspected bombing in a public restroom at a Tokyo war shrine last month, local media reported Wednesday. The 27-year-old suspect, identified only by his surname...

    • Posted December 9, 2015
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  • BBCN, Wilshire Bank
    No. 1 and No. 2 Korean American banks BBCN and Wilshire to merge

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Weeks following an announcement by BBCN Bancorp, the largest Korean American bank, that it had received a merger proposal by No. 3-largest Hanmi Bank, BBCN said Sunday it will merge...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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