Новости за 30.04.2016

(ATTN: ADDS meetings with Chinese premier, state councilor in paras 7-9) BEIJING, April 30 (Yonhap) -- The foreign ministers of China and Japan held bilateral talks in Beijing on Saturday with the aim of improving ties strained by territorial and his

(ATTN: ADDS more comments in last 5 paras) By Park Bo-ram SEOUL. April 30 (Yonhap) -- The new chief commander of the 28,000-strong U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea took command on Saturday with a pledge to continue to be "ready to fight today"

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea slammed North Korea on Saturday for insulting President Park Geun-hye who had warned the North against carrying out an additional nuclear test with a pledge to take stern actions against it. Earlier in the da

By Park Bo-ram SEOUL. April 30 (Yonhap) -- The new chief commander of the 28,000-strong U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea took command on Saturday with a pledge to continue to be "ready to fight today" as he assumed the position amid unrelenting

YEOJU, South Korea, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister on Saturday played golf with heads of business lobby groups in a bid to help boost sluggish domestic demand, government officials said. Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho went golfing

(ATTN: ADDS Japanese media report on North Korea in paras 4-6) BEIJING, April 30 (Yonhap) -- The foreign ministers of China and Japan held bilateral talks in Beijing on Saturday with the aim of improving ties strained by territorial and historical di

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance ministry said Saturday the country's foreign exchange policies will remain unaffected by the latest United States' move to put Seoul on its so-called "monitoring list." "As South Korea avoided the m

BEIJING, April 30 (Yonhap) -- The foreign ministers of China and Japan held bilateral talks in Beijing on Saturday with the aim of improving ties strained by territorial and historical disputes. Meeting Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Chi

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Saturday condemned South Korea and the United States for conducting joint military drills that it called the "worst military provocation in the history of the Korean Peninsula." South Korea and the U.S. wr

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- Tens of thousands of unionized workers will hold rallies across the country to criticize the government's labor reform plans that they say will make firing people easier, the nation's two largest umbrella unions said Saturda

May 1 1923 -- The first Children's Day is celebrated in Seoul. Bang Jung-hwan, a children's author who was devoted to children's issues, was the first person to come up with the idea of Children's Day. The South Korean government later changed

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye will leave for Iran on Sunday to help South Korean businesses expand into the Middle East's least-tapped market, Cheong Wa Dae said. Park is the first South Korean president to visit

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea may conduct its fifth nuclear test early next week, as it gears up for a rare party congress aimed at consolidating leader Kim Jong-un's grip on power, experts said Saturday. The ruling Workers' Party will ho

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean shares are expected to take a breather next week as worries remain that the recent decision by the Bank of Japan not to unveil additional stimulus measures could lower the overall appetite for risky assets, anal

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. stood as the No. 1 seller of liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions in the first quarter of 2016, data showed Saturday, despite its shipments plunging amid the rise of Chinese rivals. The South

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top three shipbuilders failed to clinch a single deal in April, industry data showed Saturday, casting concerns that the firms may roll out possible restructuring of their workforces. Local shipbuilders onl

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:00 a.m. Saturday. Temperature (C) Condition Possibility High/Low of Rai

Our last chance President Park Geun-hye who would be heading the largest economic entourage of 236 business and industrial leaders to her May 1-3 state visit to Iran will be leaving the country with heavy heart as Pyongyang is feared to be readyin

Discussing NK future Stakeholders to ponder on rogue state after rogue's gone There has never been greater consensus about North Korea among key stakeholders ― South Korea, the United States and China ― that this rogue state should be separated

More stimulus Economy needs consumption-boosting measures The government has designated May 6 as a temporary holiday, allowing people to take a four-day break from May 5, which is Children's Day in Korea. The designation is intended to boost

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on April 30. Korean-language dailies -- BOK rebels, holds quantitative easing (Kunghyang Shinmun) -- Churches to respond strongly against heresy (Kook

(ATTN: CHANGES headline; ADDS details) WASHINGTON, April 29 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Treasury Department put South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan and Germany on its "monitoring list" for foreign exchange policies Friday, but none was designed as a currency m

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Treasury Department put South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan and Germany on its "monitoring list" for foreign exchange policies. "Korea has a significant bilateral trade surplus with the United States and a ma

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Yonhap) -- Activity continues at North Korea's nuclear complex that suggests the communist nation is preparing to reprocess spent nuclear fuel to harvest plutonium for nuclear weapons, a U.S. think thank said Friday. Satellite

By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, April 29 (Yonhap) -- The potential deployment of the THAAD missile defense system to South Korea should not affect China's pressure on North Korea because THAAD is aimed only at the North and reining in Pyongyang is in Ch