Korea to include green projects in ‘New Deal’ plan
Cheong Wa Dae formalized a plan Wednesday for the Green New Deal project, saying relevant authorities will unveil details early next month.President Moon Jae-in...
Hong Kong Cosmetics retailers Lush and Bonjour sued over unpaid rent
Two Hong Kong cosmetics retailers have fallen victim to the coronavirus crisis facing legal action over unpaid rent.
British-headquartered chain Lush has been...
A world redrawn: virus a ‘genocide’ threat for Amazon, warns Salgado
PARIS - Legendary photographer Sebastiao Salgado has warned of a "genocide" of the Amazon's indigenous peoples if the Brazilian government does not do more...
S. Korea, UK vice defense chiefs vow cooperation against coronavirus
(Yonhap)South Korean Vice Defense Minister Park Jae-min held phone talks with his British counterpart Wednesday and discussed ways to enhance cooperation in dealing with...
Korea grapples with uptick in virus cases amid cluster infections
South Korea's new virus cases rose by the most in nine days Wednesday amid looming mass infections at a major hospital in Seoul and...
Virus stigma weighs heavily in sub-Saharan Africa
LIBREVILLE - Landlords evict people from their homes, nurses are abandoned by their husbands and people are spurned just on suspicion of coming into...
S. Korea exports wristband trackers for quarantine violators
(Yonhap)South Korea said Wednesday it has begun shipping location-tracking wristbands currently used on people violating self-quarantine orders here amid the new coronavirus pandemic.The country...
Korean drug firms in early stage of coronavirus vaccine development
South Korean pharmaceutical firms are in the beginning stages of coronavirus vaccine development, lagging behind U.S. rivals, industry sources said Wednesday.No domestic companies have...
100-year-old WWII veteran ‘Captain Tom’ to be knighted
LONDON - Hundred-year-old British World War II veteran Captain Tom Moore is to be knighted after raising nearly $40 million for healthcare charities, with...
Physical reopening of high schools faces confusion in Incheon
High school seniors line up outdoors to get their temperatures checked before entering the building at a girls’ high school in Daegu on Wednesday....
