South Korea

Seoul says to suspend expiry of intel sharing pact with Japan

5:41 pm November 22, 2019

Seoul: South Korea will suspend the expiry of a critical military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, Seoul said Friday, just hours before the pact was due to expire as the two US allies row. Kim You-geun, a national security official at Seoul’s presidential Blue House, confirmed the accord, known as GSOMIA, would not be allowed to […]

Cinema only spreads love and connects people: Majumder

3:21 pm November 5, 2019

Guwahati: The ruling class, irrespective of political affiliations, is always scared of cinema despite the fact that it “only spreads love and connects people”, renowned film critic and curator Premendra Majumder wondered. He rued that nowadays most of the film festivals have just become a “business platform” to sell movies. “I don’t know why all […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

India starts probe into alleged exports subsidisation of rubber by South Korea

3:19 pm October 30, 2019

New Delhi: The government has initiated a probe into alleged exports subsidisation on a particular kind of rubber by South Korea, which is impacting the domestic industry, according to a notification. The commerce ministry’s investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has started the probe to see whether the subsidy programmes of South Korea […]

Climate change drove early human species to extinction, study says

Humanity’s homeland found in ancient Botswana

11:50 pm October 28, 2019

Paris: Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind’s “ancestral homeland” yet discovered. While it has long been known anatomically modern humans – homo sapiens sapiens – originated in Africa, scientists have until now been unable to […]

N Korea wants discussions on removing S Korean facilities

8:10 pm October 25, 2019

Seoul: South Korea said Friday that North Korea formally proposed discussions over the possible demolition of South Korean-made hotels and other tourist facilities at the North’s Diamond Mountain resort which leader Kim Jong Un called “shabby” and “unpleasant-looking.” Kim’s comments published by North Korea’s state media on Wednesday came after months of frustration in the […]