Polls Open To Choose New President
South Koreans are voting in a presidential election, called early after a huge corruption scandal brought down their former leader. Liberal Moon Jae-in is the clear front-runner with centrist Ahn...
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Polls Open To Choose New President In South Korea
South Koreans are voting in a presidential election, called early after a huge corruption scandal brought down their former leader. Liberal Moon Jae-in is the clear front-runner with centrist Ahn...
Polls Open In South Korea Election
South Koreans are voting in a presidential election, called early after a huge corruption scandal brought down their former leader. Left-leaning Moon Jae-in is the clear front-runner with centrist...
An Economy That Wobbles
BY: Ivor Agyeman-Duah If Ghana’s 60-year-old post-colonial economy had a human form, it could be on retirement with an ambivalent score. For what is it that blows cold today and hot tomorrow? Ten...
Polls Open In South Korea’s Presidential Election
South Koreans went to the polls Tuesday to choose a new president, after Park Geun-Hye was ousted, detained and indicted for corruption, and against a backdrop of high tensions with the nuclear-armed...
North Korea-Malaysia Football Match To Be Played In Pyongyang
An Asian Cup qualifier between North Korea and Malaysia will be played in Pyongyang, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced Monday, despite strained ties over an assassination in Kuala...
S.Korea Candidates In Final Push As North Assails Conservatives
South Korea's presidential hopefuls made a final push for votes Monday, with the left-leaning candidate a clear favourite, as the North assailed the outgoing conservative government a day before the...
North Korea ‘detains US Citizen Kim Hak-Song’
North Korea says it has detained a US citizen on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the state. Kim Hak-song worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) and was held on 6...
South Korea’s Frustrated Younger Voters Demand Change
Thirty years after South Korea became a democracy, voters born in the period go to the polls Tuesday frustrated over their prospects and demanding change as growth slows and job prospects fade. The...
Ariya To Meet Kim In LPGA Match Play Final
Thailand's third-ranked Ariya Jutanugarn and 12th-ranked Kim Sei-Young of South Korea advanced to the LPGA Lorena Ochoa Match Play finals with impressive morning triumphs Sunday. Ariya, who captured...
Near All-Male Panel In South Korea’s Presidential Race
When Park Geun-Hye was elected South Korea's first female president five years ago she secured the largest-ever vote share of the country's democratic era. But after her term ended in impeachment and...
Hur Upsets Ko, Ariya Advances At LPGA Match Play
South Korea's Hur Mi-Jung upset top-ranked Lydia Ko 1-up Saturday to reach the quarter-finals of the LPGA Lorena Ochoa Match Play while third-ranked Thai star Ariya Jutanurgan also advanced....
North Korea Claims CIA Plotted To Kill Kim Jong-Un
North Korea has accused US and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. A North Korean referred to only as “Kim” was paid to carry out an attack with biochemical...
North Korea Claims CIA Plot To Kill Kim Jong-Un
US and South Korean agents are plotting to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, state media report. A statement by the ministry of state security said a terrorist group backed by the CIA and South...
N. Korea Accuses CIA of Plot To Assassinate Kim Jong-Un
North Korea on Friday accused the CIA of plotting with South Korea to assassinate leader Kim Jong-Un, amid soaring tensions in the flashpoint region. The CIA and Seoul's Intelligence Services have...
‘South Korea’s Bill Gates’ Seeks To Break Political Mould
One of the main challengers to the frontrunner in South Korea's presidential race is an IT multi-millionaire who has given away much of his fortune and is now looking to break the country's political...
Waxing Moon Set For South Korea Presidency
The near-certain winner of South Korea's presidential election next week is a former special forces soldier, pro-democracy activist and human rights lawyer. Left-leaning Moon Jae-In of the Democratic...
N.Korea Leader Revisits Island Strike Site
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspected a military unit that was responsible for bombarding a southern island, state media said Friday ahead of a presidential election in the South. Pyongyang fired...
South Korea To Draw Line Under Park Scandal With Vote
With their last president detained and awaiting trial for corruption, South Koreans go to the polls Tuesday to choose her successor, but the economic and social frustrations that fuelled anger...
Ko Wins Opener In LPGA’s Ochoa Match Play
World number one Lydia Ko beat hometown favorite Ana Menendez 3 & 2 on Thursday to launch her campaign at the LPGA Lorena Ochoa Match Play, where Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn set up a second-round...