by admin | Jan 4, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP SEOUL: South Korea on Tuesday said it has lodged a “stern” protest against Tokyo’s inclusion of disputed islands in a tsunami advisory issued after a major earthquake struck a day earlier. Seoul has controlled the Dokdo islets —...
by admin | Jan 11, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Express News Service BEIJING: China suspended issuing short-term visas to South Koreans and Japanese on Tuesday, its embassies in Seoul and Tokyo said, in apparent retaliation for restrictions imposed on Chinese travellers over Covid concerns. The embassies...
by admin | Sep 6, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press SEOUL: The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years battered its southern region Tuesday, dumping a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroying roads and felling power lines, leaving 66,000 homes without electricity as thousands of people...
by admin | Aug 4, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press SEOUL: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet top South Korean political leaders on Thursday, a day after she concluded her high-profile visit to Taiwan by renewing Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defending...
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press SEOUL: The South Korean and U.S. militaries flew 20 fighter jets over waters off South Korea’s western coast Tuesday in a continued show of force as a senior U.S. official warned of a forceful response if North Korea goes ahead with its...