KUALA LUMPUR, Several areas in the capital were inundated this morning due to the heavy rainfall, with the reading taken at the city centre showing over 114 millimetres (mm) per hour, almost double the normal reading of 60mm per hour.
KOTA KINABALU, Sabah Health director Datuk Dr Asits Sanna led over 700 personnel from various enforcement agencies to conduct an Integrated Mega Operation of the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024 (Act 852) here today.
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The government of Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, designated 11 inter-Korean border areas within the province as “danger zones” to stop North Korean defectors and activists from sending anti-North Korea propaganda leaflets across the border….
This year’s Nobel economics prize laureates on Monday applauded South Korea’s economic rise, a key subject of their research, but pointed out a set of challenges ahead, including the fast-graying population of Asia’s fourth largest economy.
They also…
North Korea appears to have blown up the northern side of its roads connected to South Korea as a symbolic measure to erase the legacy of inter-Korean cooperation under its leader Kim Jong-un’s “two hostile states” stance, experts said.
North
The presidential office flatly denied claims by an election broker Tuesday that he frequently communicated with President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee during Yoon’s campaign for the People Power Party (PPP) presidential nomination in 2021…
LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES), South Korea’s leading battery maker, said Tuesday it has signed deals to supply batteries for Ford Motor Co.’s commercial vehicles.
In two separate contracts, LGES will supply 34 GWh batteries to the U.S. carmaker from…
1-year TB 2.849 2.857 -0.8
2-year TB 2.936 2.962 -2.6
3-year TB 2.906 2.938 -3.2
10-year TB 3.050 3.087 -3.7
2-year MSB 2.906 2.928 -2.2
3-year CB (AA-) 3.475 3.509 -3.4
91-day CD 3.400 3.400 0.0
Source: Yonhap News Agency
South Korean shares closed higher for a third consecutive session Tuesday on advances by tech shares. The local currency lost ground against the U.S. greenback.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 10.16 points, or 0.39 perc…
North Korea on Tuesday blew up roads connected to South Korea once seen as symbols of inter-Korean cooperation as it seeks to cement its animosity toward the South, which it regards as a “primary foe.”
“The North Korean military conducted