Childbirths drop 10.1% in March
(Yonhap)The number of babies born in South Korea dropped 10.1 percent in March from a year earlier, data showed Wednesday, in the latest evidence...
More students to return to school despite virus risk
More than 2 million additional South Korean students will return to school Wednesday as parents worry about a recent rise in local transmissions of...
No screams please: Japanese funfairs prepare for virus era
TOKYO - No screaming on the rollercoaster, socially distant spooks in the haunted house and please refrain from high-fiving your favourite superhero: welcome to...
Prosecutors arrest Ulsan mayor’s election camp chief
(Yonhap)The prosecution arrested Ulsan Mayor Song Cheol-ho’s former election campaign manager over suspicions that he accepted illegal campaign funds from a local used car...
S. Korea to provide $4.9 million for UN aid project for...
South Korea will provide US$4.9 million for a U.N. aid project for North Korea aimed at enhancing understanding of global statistical principles in the...
Man arrested over deadly arson at Japanese animation studio: media
TOKYO - Japanese police on Wednesday formally arrested a man on suspicion of an arson attack on an animation studio in the city of...
New virus cases spike on steady rise in club-linked infections, another...
(Yonhap)South Korea's new virus cases spiked by the most in nearly two months on Wednesday as the country grapples with a steady rise in...
Korea looking into 2 suspected cases of Kawasaki-like illness in children
South Korea on Tuesday reported two suspected cases of an unknown inflammatory syndrome in children possibly linked to the new coronavirus for the first...
UK minister quits over Cummings lockdown trip
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was hit by its first resignation on Tuesday over the controversy surrounding top aide Dominic Cummings'...
Schools are key to success of ‘everyday life quarantine,’ Moon says
(Yonhap)President Moon Jae-in vowed the government's full efforts Tuesday to stave off sporadic cluster infections in South Korea, as more than 2 million students...
