SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said it will resume imports of U.S. beef after American and South Korean suppliers agreed to block meat from ol...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home
In South Korea, scientists have been cloning animals with desirable traits and genetic alterations. Last year, researchers cloned cats that glow under...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
It's shameful that the Koreans can muster thousands of people in the streets over beef imports, but we can't muster ten over the fact that the president lied his way into a disastrous war.
AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's president said Wednesday that his government will make a fresh start, hours after an estimated 80,000 people ...
AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's entire Cabinet offered to resign Tuesday following a public uproar over the planned resumption of U.S. beef i...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 05.31.2008 | Business
SEOUL, South Korea — Tens of thousands of South Koreans rallied Saturday night against a government decision to import U.S. beef in the largest ...
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.18.2008 | Home
SEOUL, South Korea — One journalist's bid to report mass murder in South Korea in 1950 was blocked by his British publisher. Another corresponde...
David Flumenbaum | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
In North Korea, where political dissent is as rare as an Internet connection, the world got a taste of how China had envisioned the torch procession at all of its stops -- quiet, calm and Communist.
Bloomberg | Bomi Lim and Seonjin Cha | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business
Bloomberg reports: Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun Hee will stand trial for tax evasion and breach of duty, prosecutors said, after a three-month prob...
Jackson Williams | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
Last night Bush spoke of "eventual protective overwatch" in Iraq. What does that mean, really?
AFP | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business
Investigators probing a bribery scandal allegedly involving South Korea's largest group Samsung raided the private home of its chairman Lee Kun-Hee on...
AP | Posted 01.09.2008 | Business
After a journalist's LG Electronics Inc. laptop reportedly exploded in flames, the company said Wednesday it was investigating. "LG Electronics is co...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics
Workers should not have to accept the notion that massive job losses and a hammering down of wages is a natural consequence of "globalization."
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
If Maliki backs down he will have proven to his fellow countrymen that not even their own safety is more important to him than being a pawn of America.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics
Human rights almost always take a backseat whenever the United States wants a regime to un-split its atoms.
AP | Kelly Olsen | Posted 10.04.2007 | Business
North and South Korea agreed Thursday to expand economic cooperation that has flourished this decade in tandem with greatly reduced political tensions...
David Sirota | Posted 09.04.2007 | Politics
As Congress reconvenes this week, K Street and a handful of Democratic congressional leaders are gearing up to pass lobbyist-written trade pacts with ...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
A chimp in Japan escaped the sweltering confines of his cage, and a zookeeper with a tranquilizer gun...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
AP | BURT HERMAN | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business