Seoul, Nov 6 (DPA) South Korea's parliament on Friday ratified a comprehensive economic partnership deal with India, paving the way for closer trade ties. Seoul's ratification opens the way for eliminating or lowering ...

Seoul, Nov 4 (IANS) South Korean health officials said Wednesday three more people have died of swine flu, raising to 45 the number of fatalities from the viral disease in the country, ...

Seoul, Nov 3 (DPA) South Korea Tuesday raised the swine flu alert level to its highest status due to the rapid spread of the viral disease in the country, officials said. The red ...

Seoul, Nov 2 (DPA) The US needs to decide whether it wants to engage in bilateral talks with North Korea on the country's nuclear weapons programme, the foreign ministry in Pyongyang said ...

Seoul, Oct 31 (IANS) South Korea will send troops to Afghanistan to protect its civilian aid workers there, WAM news agency reported citing the Korean foreign ministry. The decision came as Seoul ...

Seoul, Oct 30 (DPA) Samsung Electronics Co's profit more than tripled in the third quarter to hit a record 3.72 trillion won ($3.14 billion), the company said Friday. Rising prices for memory chips ...

Seoul, Oct 27 (IANS) India's Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj entered the second round of the $125,000 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger here Tuesday. Somdev, seeded fourth, advanced after South ...

Seoul, Oct 26 (IANS) India's Somdev Devvarman and his American partner Todd Martin crashed out of the $125,000 Association of Tennis Professional (ATP)challenger, losing in the doubles first round here Monday. Somdev ...

Seoul, Oct 26 (DPA) South Korea's economy grew at its fastest pace in seven years in the third quarter, rising 2.9 percent from the quarter before, the central bank said Monday. The third-straight ...

Seoul, Oct 26 (DPA) South Korea Monday offered North Korea its first food aid in nearly two years as part of a recent cautious rapprochement between the two neighbours. South Korea made the ...

Seoul, Oct 24 (IANS) South Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-young has told lawmakers that the government is preparing for its reconstruction work in Afghanistan, WAM news agency reported Saturday. Kim said the government ...

Sydney, Oct 23 (DPA) Australia's biggest city is scheduled to host the opening leg of the International Triathlon Union 2010 world championships series in April, the union said in a statement Friday.Sydney ...

Seoul, Oct 21 (DPA) The danger posed by North Korea has grown as it develops its nuclear and missile programmes and engages in proliferation, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday on ...

Seoul, Oct 15 (DPA) North Korea Thursday accused the South Korean military of sending warships into its territorial waters off its west coast on several occasions. North Korea's naval command threatened military action ...

Washington, Oct 15 (DPA) US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will travel to Japan and South Korea next week before attending a NATO gathering in Slovakia, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Gates will arrive in ...

London, October 13 (ANI): Scientists have reported the discovery of the tiniest dinosaur footprints ever found, which were made by a baby dinosaur as it fled for its life. The prints were discovered ...

Seoul, Oct 13 (DPA) North Korea appears to be preparing to conduct new missile tests, a South Korean news agency reported Tuesday. After five rocket tests on Monday on North Korea's east coast, ...

Seoul, Oct 12 (Xinhua) North Korea Monday test-fired five short-range missiles off its eastern coast, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing government sources. The missiles were launched from the bases between North ...

Seoul, Oct 12 (DPA) North Korea Monday test-fired two short-range missiles off its eastern coast towards the Japan Sea, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported, quoting government sources. Further details were not ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on global economic and security issue will visit focus Asian countries his visit to Japan first time after taking office from Nov. 12-13 for talks with Prime Minister ...

Hamburg, Oct 2 (DPA) Olympic Summer Games, number of participating countries, athletes, sports and events. Year City Countries Athletes (W/M) ...

Seoul, Oct. 1 (ANI): South Korea said Thursday the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s rejection of the so-called "grand bargain," which Seoul proposed to Pyongyang as a measure to end the ...

Seoul, Sep 27 (DPA) Japanese professional tennis player Kimiko Date-Krumm Sunday became the second-oldest Women's Tennis Association (WTA) champion when she beat Spain's second seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3, 6-3 to win ...

Seoul, Sep 26 (RIA Novosti) Hundreds of North and South Koreans separated by the Korean War (1950-53) met north of the border Saturday in the first such reunion in two years, a ...

Seoul, Sep 18 (Xinhua) An 81-year-old woman has died of swine flu in South Korea Friday, raising to nine the number of fatalities from the viral disease in the country, health officials ...

Seoul, Sep 17 (IANS) A 64-year-old woman has died of swine flu in South Korea, raising to eight the number of deaths from the viral disease in the country, health officials said.The ...

Seoul, Sep. 14 (ANI): South Korea has rejected reports claiming that North Korea is preparing for a third nuclear. "(We) haven't heard of anything like that, which thus cannot be confirmed," Korea's Yonhap ...

Seoul, Sep 8 (DPA) South Korea Tuesday demanded an apology from North Korea for what it said was the unannounced release of water from a dam that created a wave of water ...

By Gina Gomez On Tuesday, the 1st of September, a very tragic news greeted all, as various news sources bore the reports of the death of the beautiful actress Jang Jin-young. She succumbed ...

Seoul, Aug 30 (IANS) South Korea will provide free swine flu vaccines to around 9.1 million people across the country, WAM news agency reported Sunday citing officials. At least one million medical staff, ...